Soviet Counterintelligence: Successes and Constraints

Prit Buttar, historian and author of Bagration 1944: The Great Soviet Offensive, joins the show to discuss the immense Russian campaign that broke the German Army on the Eastern Front.    

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    •      01:48 Introduction

    •      02:50 A war unto itself

    •      08:02 Flanders        

    •      15:20 Maskirovka

    •      24:35 Soviet intelligence         

    •      28:27 Bolshevism        

    •      30:22 Lebensraum     

    •      31:40 Bagration        

    •      36:14 Cracking the line       

    •      39:00 Warsaw

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