1.54 Фронт и тыл (1942–1943)

"The Most Instructive Century" opens the lecture series on the "Cultural Code" channel. Historian Alexander Shubin talks about the 20th century – the most dramatic and tragic in Russian history. This is an exceptional experience that will be useful to all of us in the 21st century. Lecture 54. Front and Home Front (1942–1943) This has never happened before or since. An unprecedented event in world history: a gigantic metropolis is almost completely blockaded. The "Road of Life" across the frozen Lake Ladoga, the 125 grams of siege food, hunger; Leningraders are on the brink of survival and refuse to surrender. A half-starved "little NEP" is forming in the rear: markets and rationing. How did the Soviet leadership create motivation to fight the enemy, drawing on its glorious past? Alliance with the persecuted church: Stalin's tactical move or a turn toward traditional values? The Wehrmacht carries out a highly cinematic Operation Oak, rescuing the Italian dictator from captivity. Nazi saboteur Otto Skorzeny becomes a myth, and the King of Italy an ally. On the Eastern Front, from Maly Trostenets to Babi Yar, the camps and execution ravines of the Holocaust operate. The Belarusian and Ukrainian forests are transformed into a partisan zone with airfields, sabotage operations, and derailed trains. How does the partisan movement, the "separate front," influence the outcome of the 1943 campaigns? ...The Bryansk forest rustled sternly. Blue fogs descended, And the pines heard the surrounding area As the partisans advanced against the Germans. #siege #SicilianOperation #partisans 0:00 IT company Aston presents 0:24 1943: A radical turning point is looming, the initiative passes to the anti-Hitler coalition 1:00 Kharkov: The Red Army's revenge and the Wehrmacht's counterattack 1:23 Withdrawal from the Rzhev Salient and stabilization of the front in Belarus 1:52 Leningrad: An unprecedented siege of the metropolis 3:07 "Road of Life": Deadly journeys across the ice of Lake Ladoga 6:24 125 grams of siege bread 7:46 A million dead and Leningrad as a fortress city that refuses to surrender 11:07 Tanya Savicheva's diary: a symbol of the siege 13:18 Southern Front: The Mius Front, Saur-Mogila, and preparations for the Kursk operation 15:28 Half-Starved The Home Front, the "Little NEP," and Barter Bazaars 16:52 Commercial Shops and Restaurants, Like in "The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed" 19:28 Patriotic Turn: Shoulder Boards, Suvorov, Kutuzov, and Medals 22:45 New USSR Anthem: Music by Alexandrov, Lyrics by Mikhalkov, Edits by Stalin 25:05 Stalin's Meeting with the Metropolitans: An Appeal for Help? 31:42 Liquidation of the Comintern: Abandonment of the Open Headquarters of the World Revolution 37:30 Katyn and Moscow's Conflict with the Polish Government in London 42:49 The Sicilian Bridgehead, the Fall of Mussolini, and Operation Skorzeny 46:33 The "New Order" in Occupied Eastern and Central Europe 52:44 Partisans, the UPA, Volyn, and the Approach to the Decisive Battle of Kursk