Operation Citadel was the final German offensive on the Eastern front, and Kursk is considered the greatest tank battle of the war. At Kursk, the Nazis aimed to repeat their earlier successes by surrounding and destroying Russian forces.

Thanks to Allied codebreakers, though, the Russians got advance warning and built up defensive lines of ditches and minefields to absorb the German attack. In the air, Stukas armed with 37-millimeter gun pods faced Russian armored Sturmoviks dropping dozens of anti-tank bombs.

As the German offensive stalled, Marshal Zhukov launched his counterattack and drove the Germans back with heavy losses.

There is a lot going on before and after this clip that kinda lets you know how all of this fits together. The Russian captain and the Russian president are on board the American sub. The Americans saved the sub captain from the bottom of the ocean, and a special ops team picked up the Russian President and rushed him out of Polyarny under fire. The Russian defense minister has gone rogue and is commanding the military. The Russian destroyer that the U.S. sub is facing won't fire because the Russian captain on the USS Arkansas broadcast that he is on the sub and that they should stand down, even naming the soldiers one at a time to verify his identify. The rogue minister fires surface to surface missile to take out the sub, even know that the Russian captain and president are on board. At the last moment the Russian destroyer comes to their defense and then counter acts the minister utterly destroying the  Polyarny installation.

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