{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Taking half of Ukraine: Episode 56","description":"After the Battle of Kursk, Stalin and the Stavka set their sights on recapturing Smolensk, and farther south, the wealth of the Donbas and eastern Ukraine.\n\nMap 1: The Chernihiv-Poltava Offensive\n\nMap 2: The Red Army perspective\n\nI guess you have to be a Red Army officer to understand this one.\n\n\n\nPhotos:\n\nIvan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1945\n\n\n\nGeneral Nikolai Vatutin, Commander of the Voronezh Front, 1943\n\n\n\n\n\nKonstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the USSR.\n\n\n\n\n\n Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information.\n\nHosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.","author_name":"Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43762451/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}