{"id":1126,"date":"2025-02-24T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:12:49","slug":"beyond-barbarossa-68-north-and-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"The broad front: Episode 68"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the north and the south, the Red Army makes great advances in the Eastern Front in February 1944.\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"95\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/8933011\/embed?v=202301\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"allowtransparency\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Audioboom player\" allow=\"autoplay\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts 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