In this episode, we revisit the extraordinary stand of a Soviet KV-1 tank near the Lithuanian town of Raseiniai in June 1941, during the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa. As German armored ...

With armor that made German guns useless, the KV-1 and KV-2 were unstoppable in 1941. But weight, complexity, and changing tactics left them behind. This is the full rise and fall of the Soviet KV ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: For armament, the KV-1 had a single short-barrel seventy-six-millimeter L11 gun in the turret, as well as 7.62-millimeter machine guns in the hull and turret. There was ...

In the first six months of Operation Barbarossa, the brutal Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Panzer tanks overran hundreds of miles of Soviet territory and reached the outskirts of Moscow before ...