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The Moment Stalin Knew the German Army Was Finished

In November 1942, in a small wood paneled room in the Kremlin, Joseph Stalin took a phone call and walked to a wall map of Stalingrad. Red pins showed Soviet pincers closing around the German Sixth Army. He stared for a long moment and said quietly, “They cannot escape now. The Germans cannot escape.” This video follows Stalin’s journey from shock and near collapse in June 1941 to cold, mathematical certainty by 1943 that the Wehrmacht was finally breaking. We trace: The disastrous opening of Operation Barbarossa and Stalin’s paralysis as German armies crushed Soviet fronts and advanced hundreds of miles in days. Order No. 227 – “Not one step back” – and Stalin’s use of terror to hold a shattered army together. The meat grinder of Stalingrad: Chuikov’s 62nd Army, house to house fighting, and the desperate Soviet defense on the Volga’s western bank. Zhukov’s plan for Operation Uranus, the encirclement of the German Sixth Army by striking at weaker Romanian flanks. The November 1942 encirclement, Hitler’s refusal to allow a breakout, the failed Luftwaffe “air bridge,” Manstein’s relief attempt, and the starvation and surrender of Paulus’s army. The Battle of Kursk in 1943: the Soviet defensive belts, the largest tank battle in history at Prokhorovka, and the failure of Operation Citadel. How Stalingrad and Kursk destroyed the myth of German invincibility, shifted the psychological balance, and convinced Stalin that from then on “we advance, they retreat.” The strategic consequences: a permanently defensive Wehrmacht in the East, Soviet industrial and manpower advantages, and Stalin’s growing focus on postwar borders and domination of Eastern Europe. This is not a hero’s tale. It is a brutal story of miscalculation, adaptation, terror, and overwhelming attrition — and of how Stalin came to see, step by step, that Germany’s army was not just beaten in a single battle, but broken for good. If you’re interested in the Eastern Front, Stalingrad, Kursk, or how grand strategy and industrial capacity interact with leadership psychology, this video offers a detailed, historically grounded narrative. Like, comment, and subscribe for more in depth WWII and Soviet history. Turn on notifications so you don’t miss upcoming episodes. #WW2 #WorldWar2 #EasternFront #Stalingrad #Kursk #Stalin #Zhukov #Wehrmacht #RedArmy #SovietUnion #BattleOfStalingrad #BattleOfKursk #MilitaryHistory #HistoryDocumentary