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Stalingrad: Operation Uranus

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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The Soviet Skids, That's Way Too on the Nose for a Scriptwriter

We're marked the moment where the Soviet Union turns in an amazing corner. Stalin is rubbing his hands and so is Zukov, talking about the crush skull. The Red Army at this point reckons it's trapped maybe 85,000 to 90,000 Germans. But actually it's somewhere between 250,000, 275,000. And what's amazing is that the Germans realize they sort of go, hmm, we're temporarily encircled.

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