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re: 73 Years ago today: Battle of Stalingrad ends with the surrender of 6th Army
Posted on 2/2/16 at 12:00 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 2/2/16 at 12:00 pm to Darth_Vader
I'm watching the absolutely excellent documentary, World War II in Color, which has sent me down the wormhole into WWII history and literature. I'm sort of interested in Zhukov, as he seems to have been one of the most able tank commanders of the war.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 12:22 pm to crazy4lsu
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I'm watching the absolutely excellent documentary, World War II in Color, which has sent me down the wormhole into WWII history and literature.
That's a pretty good series. If you've got Netflix I'd also recommend checking out "Apocalypse World War II". I'm a little over half way through it and it's been pretty good.
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I'm sort of interested in Zhukov, as he seems to have been one of the most able tank commanders of the war.
He is generally regarded as the best the Soviets had. I'd say a valid argument could be made though for
Konstantin Rokossovsky.
He played key roles in everything from the defense of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk. He also planned and carried out Operation Bagration which virtually destroyed the German's Army Group Center and put the Soviet's on Warsaw's doorstep. The thing about him though is he was not Russian, instead he was Polish. This fact held him back in the annals of Soviet military history. In fact, it was only becasue he was Polish that he was moved away from the push on Berlin and instead commanded the push through the Northern portion of Germany. Stain did not want a Pole to be able to say they captured Berlin.
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