The Battle of Kursk was a pivotal point of the Eastern Front of World War II. Here is how the largest tank engagement that history has ever seen played out.
The Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov said at a movie screening honoring the Battle of Kursk that it is our duty to preserve the memory of the heroes' of WWII and nip neo-Nazism in the bud.
With about two million troops, 6,000 tanks and 4,000 aircraft involved in total, the Battle of Kursk is known to this day as the largest tank battle in history.
evening, russia time, celebrating the anniversary, the 88th anniversary of the victory of soviet troops in the battle of kursk at the same time this was going on. brought up this frame of reference, kind of like the scene in "the godfather i" where michael is at the baptism of his child, and the meantime all the families of the heads of the families are getting executed. so putin is at this grand celebration and his chief rival is taken out of the sky by a soviet ground to air missile. it's a soap opera. >> that's the image he wants to convey. he sees himself as a godfather figure and he appeared to be weak when prigozhin did the rebellion. he was not prepared. he had to negotiate a settling down, put up proshenko, neither
one adhering, and putin was clearly on a mission to try to kill prigozhin from that point on. what we don't know is whether this was it or something else, we'll find out later. but the image about being that guy in control -- >> sandra: ambassador, we have some new video in of vladimir putin, i mentioned a moment ago, happened about a half hour we are told -- something we are told, but attending that concert in this moment. it would be interesting that this just happened, it was a dedication to the 88th anniversary of the victory of soviet troops in the battle of kursk, but interesting, obviously, that vladimir putin would have gone on public display, having this happen. he would have known that this happened, and that it was executed.
Kursk spelled the beginning of the end for the Wehrmacht in Russia.
Here's What You Need to Know: Only the relatively recent declassification of Waffen SS combat records and the public accessibility of Russian archival material has revealed the true nature of Kursk: a brilliant tactical victory for the Germans, but a decisive strategic victory for the Soviets.
With the German Sixth Army destroyed at Stalingrad, the Soviet juggernaut lunged west and southwest across the River Donets. The Soviets seemed unstoppable, recapturing the major city of Kharkov from the Germans on February 14, 1943, roughly five months before the Battle of Kursk. At the time, Field Marshal Erich von Manstein was only waiting for the Soviets to overextend themselves.