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A surprise German pincer...

history · 19 May 1942 · 83 years ago

A surprise German pincer movement threatened to trap a large contingent of Soviet troops at Izium near Kharkov, Ukraine. Joseph Stalin belatedly granted permission for the troops to withdraw. 

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