{"id":796,"date":"2025-08-11T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?p=796"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:31:38","slug":"lviv-another-crushing-blow-episode-80-of-the-first-english-podcast-on-the-eastern-front-of-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Lviv: Another crushing blow\u2014Episode 80 of the first English podcast on the Eastern Front of World War II."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stalin\u2019s one-two punch against Germany is the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, hitting in Ukraine as Bagration smashes into Byelorussia. It also lays bare the brutality within the Red Army.&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"95\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/8932997\/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 allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Map 1: The Byelorussian Balcony<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/7xc4t2yxkbnpj6qz\/BagrationMap2.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BagrationMap2.jpeg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3157894736842106;width:600px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Map 2: The Lvov-Sandomierz Operation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/mw5fub4xvkijntsj\/lvov-sandomierz.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"lvov-sandomierz.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.2295081967213115;width:600px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Map 3: The Eastern Front, 15 June 1944<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/h4rdykk2hs2cqvp9\/EFmap-1944-06-15-WW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EFmap-1944-06-15-WW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpeg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0471204188481675;width:600px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Map 4: The Eastern Front, 15 July 1944<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/9ybhax3m5brksay6\/EFmap-1944-07-15WW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EFmap-1944-07-15WW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpeg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0362694300518134;width:600px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Map 5: The Eastern Front, 15 August 1944<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/gpm2jps25hy4r5ra\/EFmap-1944-08-15WW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"EFmap-1944-08-15WW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpeg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0380622837370241;width:600px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Historical photos<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/3xdhcyqnp2gyukzi\/IvanKonev1945.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IvanKonev1945.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7327586206896551;width:170px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ivan Konev, commander, 1st Ukrainian Front<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/afnezv4d8h86ie7e\/Pavel_Rybalko_2.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pavel_Rybalko_2.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7083333333333334;width:170px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Lt. General Pavel Rybalko, commander, 3rd Guards Tank Army<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/b6yp6ctjythda5z3\/Harpe.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Harpe.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6085192697768763;width:300px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josef Harpe, Commander, Army Group North Ukraine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sources<\/strong>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antony Beevor,&nbsp;<em>The Second World War<\/em>. London, UK: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prit Buttar,&nbsp;<em>Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine<\/em>, 1943. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evan Mawdsley,&nbsp;<em>Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War, 1941\u20131945.<\/em>&nbsp;London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony Tucker-Jones, S<em>talin\u2019s Revenge: Operation Bagration and the Annihilation of Army Group Centre<\/em>. &nbsp;Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK: Pen and Sword Books, 2009.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hosted on Audioboom. See Beyond Barbarossa\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/beyondbarbarossa.ca\/?page_id=3\">privacy policy\u00a0<\/a>for more information.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stalin\u2019s one-two punch against Germany is the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive, hitting in Ukraine as Bagration smashes into Byelorussia. 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