Professor of political geography at the Royal Military College of Canada and Senior Research Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, shares his knowledge and insight into the experience of Ukraine under occupation by nazi and Soviet forces during the Second World War. Map: Ukrainian…
Season 1
Episode 5: The USSR—defeated?
After the Battle of Smolensk, Germany changes its strategy. It diverts forces away from the drive on Moscow toward two other key objectives: Leningrad in the north, and Kyiv in Ukraine. This is how that played out. Map source: US Military Academy. Bibliography: Glantz, David: Operation Barbarossa: Hitler’s Invasion of…
