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Stalingrad 07 - Operation Uranus - The Red Army Is the Strongest

The Red Army Is the Strongest - The Red Army Choir Stalingrad 07 - Operation Uranus: The Offensive Begins In autumn the Soviet generals Aleksandr Vasilyevskiy and Georgy Zhukov, responsible for strategic planning in the Stalingrad area, concentrated massive Soviet forces in the steppes to the north and south of the city. The German northern flank was particularly vulnerable, since it was defended by Italian, Hungarian, and Romanian units that suffered from inferior training, equipment, and morale when compared with their German counterparts. The operation was code-named "Uranus" and launched in conjunction with Operation Mars, which was directed at Army Group Center. Zhukov and Vasilyevskiy were awarded the "Hero of the Soviet Union" for their generalship. On November 19, the Red Army unleashed Uranus. The attacking Soviet units under the command of Gen. Nikolay Vatutin consisted of three complete armies, the 1st Guards Army, 5th Tank Army, and 21st Army, including a total of 18 infantry divisions, eight tank brigades, two motorized brigades, six cavalry divisions and one anti-tank brigade. The preparations for the attack could be heard by the Romanians, who continued to push for reinforcements, only to be refused again. Thinly spread, outnumbered and poorly equipped, the Romanian Third Army, which held the northern flank of German Sixth Army, was shattered. On November 20, a second Soviet offensive (two armies) was launched to the south of Stalingrad, against points held by the Romanian IV Corps. The Romanian forces, made up primarily of infantry, collapsed almost immediately. Soviet forces raced west in a pincer movement, and met two days later near the town of Kalach, sealing the ring around Stalingrad. Because of the Soviet pincer attack, about 290,000 German and Romanian soldiers, as well as the Croatian 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment and other volunteer subsidiary troops, found themselves trapped inside the resulting pocket. Not all German soldiers from Sixth Army were trapped; 50,000 were brushed aside outside the pocket. The encircling Red Army units immediately formed two defensive fronts: a circumvallation facing inward, to defend against any breakout attempt, and a contravallation facing outward, to defend against any relief attempt. On November 21, 1942, Adolf Hitler appointed von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don), consisting of a hastily assembled group of tired men and machines, and ordered him to lead Operation Wintergewitter (Winter Storm), the rescue effort by Hermann Hoth's 4th Panzer Army and auxiliary Romanian troops to relieve the 6th Army of Friedrich Paulus trapped inside Stalingrad. Wintergewitter, launched on December 12, achieved some initial success and von Manstein got his three panzer divisions and supporting units of the 57th Panzer Corps (comprising the 23rd Panzer Grenadier Division, and the 6th and 17th Panzer Divisions) within 30 miles of Stalingrad by December 20. However, the corps was halted at the town of Aksay, and strong Russian forces eventually pushed them back. Erich von Manstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_vo... Friedrich Paulus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedric... Vasily Chuikov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_C... Aleksandr Vasilevsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksand... Georgy Zhukov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiy_... Semyon Timoshenko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_T... Konstantin Rokossovsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstant... Rodion Malinovsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodion_M... Andrei Yeremenko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Y... Battle of Stalingrad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_o... Eastern Front (World War II): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_...) http://english.pobediteli.ru/ http://english.pobediteli.ru/flash.ht... THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN PHOTOS: http://www.vor.ru/55/Photo_Exhibition... MIA: History: Soviet History: Great Patriotic War: http://marxists.catbull.com/history//... Timeline of the Eastern Front of World War II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline... ...