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Eastern Front #22 Collective German Delusions
Last time we spoke about the Wehrmachts' struggle during the Rasputitsa. In the autumn of 1941, a rain-soaked road stitched Moscow to Leningrad as two colossal armies walked a fever-dream toward a grim deadline. On one side, German steel pressed for a swift clinch at Tikhvin and along the Smolensk-Moscow spine; on the other, Soviet resolve rebuilt from ruin, civilians shoulder-to-shoulder with soldiers, refuse-to-quit etched in every hand. Mud and Rasputitsa swallowed tanks and trucks, turning battlefields into quagmires where progress slowed to a wary crawl. The German lines stretched, with…
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