The early days of Operation Barbarossa were heady ones for the German Wehrmacht, and hapless ones for their Red Army opponents. The Soviet military had been caught in a pretty bad state of preparation by the well-oiled machine that was their enemy, and they could do little but fall back, die, or surrender. The small [...]
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Absolute War Comes to Vitebsk
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