James Holland

You could go into the Baltics, you could go into Ukraine and bid it and stop at the Dnieper, stop at the Baltics.

Job done.

They overreach themselves into a truly horrific way.

Yeah.

And, you know, in the planning, it is absolutely clear that there is another element to this upcoming campaign, and that is an ideological one.

You do hear that, don't you?

Yeah!

Yeah, God!

and the plan is to annihilate obliterate the Red Army within three months and then turn back to face Britain and it has to be people have to be reminded that the reason they're doing this now when they are doing it is because they haven't defeated Britain Britain is still in the war and it's the fear of fighting on two fronts and

No, it's a weird blind spot, which, again, we'll be looking into in some detail when we do our Barbarossa series.

Thing that he needs to be paranoid about.

And you've got to try and move all of industry to the Urals, which is 400 miles further east from Moscow.

I mean, that's all a big part of the whole myth and everything.

But actually, it's all a bit kind of hit and missed.

Big time.

Because immediately after the fall of Smolensk, which is in Belarus, today's Belarus.

Yeah.

It starts to slow down.

So they barely go 100 miles in the next six weeks, which when you're dealing with a nation of thousands of square miles, that ain't enough.

And part of it is completely self-imposed.