The Caucasus and the Germans

The Don and the Volga sort of bend in towards one another, don't they? Yes, they do. So you can see why Stalin, even Stalin who presented with a case blue one plans, goes, no, I don't believe a word of it,. He can smell this a mile off. And also, but also that it offers an opportunity. It's not just that he has to, you've got to defend this, but it's an opportunity to trap the Germans here. Once they're over the Volga, could proceed in the same way to the coast, couldn't they? Yeah. Or further or further east.