Varvarovka Roadblock

After Operation Little Saturn, the Soviet command launched the Ostrogojsk-Rossoch offensive against the 2nd Hungarian Army. Threatened of surroundings by the breaking of the Hungarian front, the Italian Alpine Corps began to withdraw in the snowy Russian steppe. On the …

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After Operation Little Saturn, the Soviet command launched the Ostrogojsk-Rossoch offensive against the 2nd Hungarian Army. Threatened of surroundings by the breaking of the Hungarian front, the Italian Alpine Corps began to withdraw in the snowy Russian steppe. On the road to Nikolaevka, Italian divisions Julia and Cuneense were stopped by a Soviet roadblock in the village of Varvarovka. Italian Alpini attacked the village to go through at all costs. In spite of very high losses, the Alpini crossed the village and continued their withdrawal to Nikolaevka.

Varvarovka, Russia

Operation Saturn, revised as Operation Little Saturn, was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in the North Caucasus and Donets Basin regions of the Soviet Union from December 1942 to February 1943.

Wikipedia: Operation Little Saturn

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