What you are describing is Soviet Strategic Rope-a-dope

YouTuber "Lazerpig" has his own skeptical video about the T-34: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIZ6PFYUM5o

They (the Germans) should have avoided the salient at all cost. Hell, war with the USSR should have been avoided.

Panzer V was the Panther. Tiger was the Panzer VI#

Liam's right. Signed - a listener from Lancaster PA.

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Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains. 

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https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/07/20/the-greco-italian-war-one-of-benito-mussolinis-biggest-failures/
https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm
Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941

Episode 185 - The Greco-Italian War Part 1: Tooth and Nail

Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. 

*correction, England has won a World Cup.  In 1966.

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Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete

What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa?  One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time. 

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The Death of Apartheid: The Whites Last Stand

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104002/http://www.southafrica.info/10years/tenyearsago2.htm
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/content/dam/law/restricted-assets/pdf/faculty/mutuaM/magazines/arJulyAug94.pdf
Allister Sparks. Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

Episode 188 - The Bophuthatswana Coup

The war begins and ends. Russia steals an entire navy. 

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Episode 191 - 2008 Russo-Georgian War Part 2: Grand Theft Navy

Once upon a time a Royal Navy mutiny created an island of sex crimes and incest. 

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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-real-story-behind-infamous-mutiny-hms-bounty
LOST PARADISE: FROM MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY TO A MODERN-DAY LEGACY OF SEXUAL MAYHEM, THE DARK SECRETS OF PITCAIRN ISLAND REVEALED

Episode 192 - The Bounty Mutiny and the Cursed History of the Pitcairn Islands

Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss the time the US Navy murdered 47 of its sailors via incompetence and then decided to try to pin the blame on gay people. 

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/uss-iowa-first-came-explosion-then-cover.html
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iowa-explosion/
A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up

Episode 193 - The USS Iowa Turret Explosion

The USSR baits Nazis Germany into bleeding their army to death on 200 miles of death traps. 

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Showalter, Dennis. (2013) Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II.

Guderian, Heinz (1937). Achtung – Panzer!

Nipe, George (2011). Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140912164146/http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm

Hill, Alexander (2017), The Red Army and the Second World War,

Episode 194 - The Battle of Kursk Part 1: Hitler is Bad at His Job

Hitler edges the idea of starting one of the most disastrous battles of all time while the Soviets build Fortress Kursk.


Correction:

Panzer V - Panther
Panzer VI - Tiger

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Episode 195 - The Battle of Kursk Part 2: And Firebombs!

SS units arrive at the battle of Kursk cheering "Lunch in Kursk!" 

They would not, in fact, have lunch in Kursk. 

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Episode 196 - The Battle of Kursk Part 3: Lunch in Kursk!

The soviets launch their killing blow against the nazi army, ending the Battle of Kursk

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Episode 197 - The Battle of Kursk Part 4: Drowning In Blood

Part 1/4 

Joe is joined by Francis Horton, co-host of HOAWTD, to talk about a forgotten chapter of American history. The time the US invaded Russia in the middle of WWI and during the Russian Revolution. 

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James Carl Nelson. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

EM Holiday. When Hell Froze Over

https://books.google.com/books?id=UZPhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Company+A+339th+Infantry&ei=TWg1S_T4KYLEMbmezcIE&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.polarbeardocumentary.com/

http://pbma.grobbel.org/

Episode 198 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 1: Detroit's Own

Part 2/4

The Detroit's own finally make it to Russia, which has been transformed into the disease realm by the Spanish Flu

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Episode 199- The Polar Bear Expedition Part 2: Let Her Rip!

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