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My name is Greg Jackson. I'm a PhD holding historian, a professor, and the

creator of history that doesn't suck. A podcast that makes legit,

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Episode 492, The Battle of Volkov River.

Leningrad is to be saved.

Last time, we covered Stalin's moves after his initial counterattacks that saved Moscow.

Now the Soviet Premier wanted Army Group Center gutted with his own encirclement of

enemy troops.

Yet such an attempt was too much, too soon for the Soviet command slash body politic.

Though German troops were still being lost, what with Stalin's attacks, the Axis troops now fought to keep the Russians at bay,

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