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Now, in a new Red Army offensive that began two days ago, your tank army has the opportunity to deal another stunning blow to German forces. The Red Army has seized the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front. At the July 1943 Battle of Kursk, however, Red Army troops beat their enemy in a battle fought on German terms, first stopping the surging panzer attacks and then launching a powerful Soviet counteroffensive that pushed the Germans back along a broad front. Instead of executing the mobile, deep-thrusting panzer maneuvers at which they were proven masters, the Germans watched as the battle devolved into brutal street fighting in the city’s rubble, where their Red Army opponents’ incredible capacity to endure the horror of nightmarish urban combat proved the key to victory. At Stalingrad on the Volga (August 1942-February 1943), the Germans erred badly by allowing the battle to be fought on Russian terms. After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s German armies swept to the gates of Moscow in December 1941, conquering much of western Russia and Ukraine, two massive battles marked stunning turning points. JANUARY 26, 1944, NEAR OSITNYAZHKI, UKRAINEĪs you assume the role of General Pavel Alekseevich Rotmistrov, commander of the Red Army’s 5th Guards Tank Army, World War II on the vast Eastern Front has dramatically shifted in the Soviet Union’s favor. Previously, we published “Manstein at Stalingrad, 1942” (November 2012) and “Marshal Konev’s East Front Offensive, 1944” (January 2013).ġ1 P.M. What Next, General? Rotmistrov at the Korsun Pocket, 1944 CloseĪs a World War II Red Army general, YOU must lead an attack to encircle German defenders in a crucial East Front battle.ĮDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third installment in our trilogy of What Next, General? interactive articles in which we put readers in command of Soviet and German forces in some important but unfairly overlooked battles on World War II’s Eastern Front.
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