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With its armoured wings peeling of to the isolation of Leningrad & encirclements in Ukraine, Army Group Centre itself would go over to the defensive.. after blood drenched weeks when Timoshenko sucked 9 German divisions into a savage battle of attrition in the "Yelnaya bend", the Soviet barrier 50 miles east of Smolensk on high ground vital for the development of any blow directed against Moscow.
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Dimitri
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Locked up in the Kremlin, master of a world which he had created by his own selective killings & which reflected back upon him only those images he had himself ordained, steeped in his own genius & fed on its outpourings, Stalin could rage away dissension and doubt from whatever quarter it came.
— Feb 14, 2026 01:56AM
Dimitri
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The designation of Special to a military district signified that these were operational groupings capable of carrying out operations for a limited period without the mobilisation of additional reserves; ordinary district armies were for all practical purposes administrative organisations. The special districts had their headquarters in Riga (Baltic) Minsk (Western) & Kiev.
— Feb 14, 2026 01:20AM
