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Beyond Barbarossa: the podcast

The first English-language podcast focusing on the Eastern Front of World War II

The Axis collapses: Beyond Barbarossa, episode 87

Scott Bury, November 10, 2025October 8, 2026

In the autumn of 1944, nation after nation abandons the cruel, insane Axis to join the Western Allies or USSR: Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia … as Finland signs an armistice with the USSR. With the Red Army on the border of Germany itself, Hungary faces the choice: to fight on with, or against, the nazis.

Map 1: The Red Army invades Slovakia

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The Dukla Pass is to the right.

Map 2: The Battle of Debrecen 

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Photos

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General (later Marshal) Rodion Malinovsky, 1944

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General (later Marshal) Fyodor Tolbukhin, 1944

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Marshal Ivan Konev, 1945 

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Milos Horthy, Regent of Hungary, 1944

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Ferenc Szalisi, Leader of the Hungarian Nation, 1944

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General Heinz Guderian, Inspector-General of the Army, 1944

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