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them guessing last time thanks to Soviet mistakes and German German professionalism,

the way to Kiev was open.

This was to be the greatest victory for Army Group South

thus far.

They just had to navigate the urban river west of Kiev, and of course the Neeper River that the

great city itself straddles.

That was the invaders problem.

The defenders problem was that there was little to stop the invaders besides mother nature's efforts.

That is, until just before the pansers arrived.

The defenses around Kiev were started in the late 1920s and finished by 1930, three years

before Hitler came to power. But by the summer of 1941, they were no longer the equivalent of walking into a lion's mouth,

more like the remains from the beast's skull long after passing.

When Khrushchev rushed back to Kiev, this is what he found as he wrote years later.

There were reinforced concrete pillboxes with artillery there, but I have already mentioned how they were destroyed.

Stalin ordered them destroyed.

His intention was that our command staff would not look back,

but would keep its eyes fixed on the fortifications along the new border.

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