One year ago, on 22 June 2023, this podcast launched on the 81st anniversary of Operation Barbarossa. For this special episode, Kristaps Andrejsons joins to talk about podcasting, and the real-world impact of the Second World War on Latvian culture and society—impacts that people deal with to this day.
A conversation with Larysa Zariczniak, host and producer of the Wandering the Edge podcast on Ukrainian culture and history, with a spot of travel—when Ukraine isn’t being invaded. We spoke about Ukrainian culture, history, parallels between 1941 and 2022, and what the experiences of those two periods can tell us…
Germany’s final, final assault on the capital of the USSR in November 1941. Map 1: The Battle of Moscow, November 1941. Map 2: The bigger picture. Source: U.S. Army archives. Soviets fighting back during “offensive weather”: Rasputitsa: Defense of Moscow: Women militia training in Moscow, fall 1941: New T-34 tanks…
After stopping Operation Barbarossa, at the opening of 1942, the Red Army launches a series of offensives to drive the Germans back to Berlin. A series of offensives that became a series of bloody failures. Map 1: The Soviet Winter Offensives, December 1941 – May 1942 Map 2: The Crimean…