Stalin Sent Him to a Gulag... Then Begged Him to Save Russia

In 1937, Stalin arrested and tortured one of his best commanders, Konstantin Rokossovsky. Three years later, with German forces at Moscow's gates, Stalin released him from prison and begged him to save the Soviet Union.

The operation's staggering scale:
► 450,000 German casualties in 35 days
► 28 divisions completely erased
► 2.3 million Soviet soldiers vs 400,000 Germans
► 600km advance to the Vistula River
► More German losses than 6 months at Stalingrad
► Perfectly timed with D-Day to split German forcesFrom torture victim to strategic genius - the forgotten commander who changed history.

Chapters:
0:00 – The Fortress That Stopped Blitzkrieg
0:28 – Operation Bagration Begins
1:03 – 28 Divisions Erased
2:06 – The Architect: From Prison to Command
2:19 – Stalin's Terror Consumes the Red Army
3:30 – Rokossovsky's Arrest and Torture
5:02 – The Interrogation Rooms
7:32 – Refusing to Confess
8:13 – German Victory in 1941
11:09 – Release From Prison
12:57 – The Moscow Miracle
16:16 – Planning Bagration
17:33 – Defying Stalin's Plan
19:24 – The Great Deception
23:40 – The Artillery Opens Fire
28:27 – Double Envelopment Success
35:00 – German Intelligence Failure
40:04 – Stalin's Final Betrayal
42:20 – Why History Forgot Bagration
43:02 – The Moscow Victory March

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