Stalin was very “fond” of Army Group Centre, having made a dash for Kremlin in 1941. Stalin wanted all of them to visit Siberia ski resorts.

The transformation of the Red Army showed after early 1942 is fantastic. Their "deep battle" operations have always fascinated me. "Blitzkrieg" stopped working after the dashing victories of the 1939-41; Soviet deep battle tactics marked the period of war between 1942-45. Also, thanks to all Soviet soldiers for their sacrifices fighting fascism and imperialism. And thanks the Museum for this informative video!

Konstantin Rokossovsky was the guy that planned Operation Bagration and insisted for multiple breakthroughs. The rest of the Soviet high command was against this, but Stalin went with Rokossovsky's plan after telling him to think about it three times. On the fourth time, Stalin said "your confidence speaks for your sound judgement".

A lot of people today try to downplay or simply don't mention the eastern front when discussing WW2 So videos like these are appreciated!

The irony being that you can make a case that when the Soviets rolled over the Japanese in Manchuria in August 1945 that that was the greatest military defeat of all time in a single contained battle. The Soviets conquered an area the size of Western Europe in 10 days while suffering almost no discernible casualties. Getting back to Bagration and the destruction of Army Group Centre, the Soviets had the Germans so confused it took the Germans four days to realize that Minsk was the key objective. By then their front had been shattered.

Stalin said it best. The Brits gave time, the US gave money and the Soviets gave blood

Always remember the man who wasn’t there. General Heinrici, the defensive specialist, warned that a major offensive was coming, and he wanted to shorten his lines and form reserves for counterattacks. For this, he was relieved by the Grofaz, and would only be brought back at the end to try and save Berlin.

You know it’s a bad war when you lose over 770k soldiers and still call it a victory…

Soviets counter attacked themselves right into POW camps in 1941. At least they learned from their mistakes.

The quality of this content is phenomenal. Thank you all for the efforts you make.

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The chap doing the main narration is an excellent choice for the work, and having a little accent certainly adds to the nature of the intentionality of the topic. The presentation of the on camera person is also top quality. Another solid video.

And thank you for not calling it "Operation Bag-Ration" as so many English speakers do.

Another excellent and informative video. Thank you very much. The narrator did an outstanding job in her explanation of the operation.

Bloody amazing as always, love these documentaries. Thanks, IWM

Great stuff, I really hadn't seen much about this in the more traditional documentaries - Nice Job on the research.

The follow-up operations would be as devastating. Group North would be cut off and isolated for the rest of the war in the baltic states.

Thank you for your excellent documentary! Great job!

Very good content! Keep it up!

Always interesting. Thank you IWM 👍