A day after the German blitzkrieg into the Soviet Union in June 1941, more than 200 Nazi tanks were powering through Lithuania on a race northward to Leningrad. The Luftwaffe knocked out the Soviets’ ...
Key Point: The KV had potential but wasn’t used right. Morever, they were too tall and easy to spot. A day after the German blitzkrieg into the Soviet Union in June 1941, more than 200 Nazi tanks were ...
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The Colossal Tank That Was Impossible to Kill
In 1941, Hitler's insatiable hunger for conquest led to a daring plan: the invasion of the Soviet Union. As the German war machine marched towards the motherland's vast resources and territories, the ...
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How One Tank Stopped an Entire Nazi Division
In this episode, we revisit the extraordinary stand of a Soviet KV-1 tank near the Lithuanian town of Raseiniai in June 1941, during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa. As German armored ...
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