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Taking half of Ukraine: Episode 56
Manage episode 437683514 series 3361864
After the Battle of Kursk, Stalin and the Stavka set their sights on recapturing Smolensk, and farther south, the wealth of the Donbas and eastern Ukraine.
Map 1: The Chernihiv-Poltava Offensive
Map 2: The Red Army perspective
I guess you have to be a Red Army officer to understand this one.
Photos:
Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1945
General Nikolai Vatutin, Commander of the Voronezh Front, 1943
Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the USSR.
59 episodes
Manage episode 437683514 series 3361864
After the Battle of Kursk, Stalin and the Stavka set their sights on recapturing Smolensk, and farther south, the wealth of the Donbas and eastern Ukraine.
Map 1: The Chernihiv-Poltava Offensive
Map 2: The Red Army perspective
I guess you have to be a Red Army officer to understand this one.
Photos:
Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1945
General Nikolai Vatutin, Commander of the Voronezh Front, 1943
Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the USSR.
59 episodes
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