rich 1.0 Smolensk has a war history that is far more significant than its size would suggest. In September 1943, it was a key to Soviet Red Army strategy, and for the German defence. The best English-language podcast for staying up to date on the war in Ukraine is Ukraine: The Latest (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/02/russia-ukraine-war-listen-daily-podcast/)  from the Daily Telegraph. Its creator and executive producer was David Knowles, who passed away unexpectedly in September. My condolences and sympathies to Mr. Knowles' family, friends, co-workers and colleagues. Map 1: Battle of Smolensk, 1943 Map 2: Operation Suvorov Map 2: Smolensk region This gives you an idea of where the smaller towns are in relation to Smolensk. Photo 1: Gen. Yeremenko (right) with Nikita Khrushchev (left) during the Battle of Stalingrad.  Photo 2: Yeremenko in about 1970 Photo 3: Gen. Vasily Sokolovsky in 1946 Sources: Antony Beevor, The Second World War. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012. Robert Forczyk, Smolensk 1943: The Red Army's Relentless Advance. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019. Evan Mawdsley, Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941–1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Anthony Tucker-Jones, Slaughter on the Eastern Front: Hitler and Stalin’s War 1941–1945. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2017 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolensk_operation. Hosted on Acast. See https://acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Ausha. See https://ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information. Beyond Barbarossa: The Eastern Front of World War 2 https://audioboom.com/channels/5173732-beyond-barbarossa-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-2 Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43762453/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8933024/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>