"As soon as I take action, the world will hold my breath!"
This famous saying from the World War II period has almost become a portrayal of the "Russian Emperor" Putin .
At the moment, the emperor waved his whip and Ula shook the sky. The war between Russia and Ukraine caused another geopolitical storm.
, and , Kiev , at the center of the storm, are in full swing in open fire, and the big powers are playing in secret.
Kiev is catching the global eye. People are secretly speculating that who will win the final battle against Kiev? Russia, or Ukraine?
The author has a saying: No matter who wins the results, from a strategic perspective, if Russia wants to win, it will win on the battlefield, and Ukraine wants to win, it will win in time.
If we look back from the present and through history, we will find another "decisive battle against Kiev" in the storm of World War II, and that battle may also help us clear away the current geopolitical fog and provide inspiration.
That war was the Kiev Battle on , the Soviet-German battlefield in in 1941!
First, the Battle of Kiev in the historical vortex
hooks and sinks into history, learn from history.
The Battle of Kiev in 1941 took place between the Soviet Union and Germany, but unlike what we expected, the situation this time was not the Soviet Union defeated Germany, but Germany defeated the Soviet Union.
After a war, the Soviet army was captured by 660,000, which can be said to be Germany's biggest local victory during the entire World War II process.
But the Soviet Union, which was defeated in a crushing defeat, won on another battlefield due to this failure - this battlefield is invisible, it is the battlefield of time.
I lost on the battlefield of war, but I won on the battlefield of time. Doesn’t it sound like a little cloudy and mist? Let me tell you slowly.
From the outbreak of the Battle of Kiev, Hitler and his commanders determined the offensive order - first Ukraine, then Leningrad, which is today's St. Petersburg , and finally hit Moscow.
Ukraine is so good!
The barns on the black soil of Ukraine, the coal and iron ore of Donets, the oil fields in the Baku region of the Transcaucasus... Nazi Germany's huge war machine lacks food and resources, and it is also imperative to fight Ukraine.
However, Hitler would not have thought that the matter was blamed on his covetousness for Ukraine!
Second, the battle of Kiev on the battlefield
Stalin The command under the battle of Kiev is very simple: defend to the death, defend to the death!
This "dead guard" is not just a literal defense, but a defensive defense in real war - the Soviet Southwest Front Army is not allowed to retreat and live and die with Kiev!
Read history, we need to look at it historical materialism. In the real situation at that time, could the Soviet Union win the Battle of Kiev?
hastily responded, and the logistics could not keep up. How could it be that the German Iron Army that was armed to the teeth?
This is equivalent to allowing the Soviet southwestern troops to disappear directly from the Patriotic War!
On the other side, the turret is coated with a large "G" mark, and the command tanks coated with a "K" mark on the turret - Guderian and Klester, these two armored demons met in Lochvicha, 150 miles east of Kiev.
Even in the history of human war, Klester and Guderian are also scary gods of war killing, and these two armored pliers clamp the heart of Kiev. The war after
was not unexpected. The German army destroyed the Soviet Southwest Front led by Commander General Kilbonos, was pinched to his throat -
Ukrainian plain , the Dnieper River bay became the destruction place of the Soviet Southwest Front. But the failure of the German army quietly wrote the foreshadowing when celebrating the victory of the Battle of Kiev.
Third, the Battle of Kiev on the battlefield of time
The Battle of Kiev was doomed to fail, Stalin was not unaware of this.
Why don’t we retain the vitality and let the soldiers attack the stone with their eggs and resist the German army at all costs?
only has one answer: time, strategic buffering time!
.7 million Soviet Red Army was not vulnerable. Under the powerful spiritual banner, they stubbornly obstructed the advancement of the German war machine with their flesh and blood.
Although the war is doomed to be a defeat, failure also dragged the German army. Just dragging it down, the time when Germany marched into Moscow into winter.
The history afterwards reveals the ridicule of human affairs by astronomical phenomena - what is more terrifying than the iron-blooded German chariot is the cold winter in Moscow.
This cold winter ended Germany's battlefield advantage and the German army's war machine.
Kiev, after all, can be the center of the historical vortex, but it will not become the core of geopolitical game. Ukraine is a key chess piece, but it is not the best chess player. This is a hint given by history.
is still applicable today!
