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Title
Blocking Action at Lipki
Description
During the opening stages of Barbarossa the first great pincer movement on the Central Front occurred between the cities of Bialystok and Minsk. As a result of the encirclement of four Soviet Armies in the Bialystok-Minsk Pocket, the Soviet Command …
Subject
Publisher
Date
1941-07-03
Scenario#
101
Scenario Description
During the opening stages of Barbarossa the first great pincer movement on the Central Front occurred between the cities of Bialystok and Minsk. As a result of the encirclement of four Soviet Armies in the Bialystok-Minsk Pocket, the Soviet Command was forced to commit whatever units they had available in an effort to form a new defensive line. Time became the prime objective that the Soviet Command was fighting for. To gain the required time, a crack unit, the 1st Moscow Motorized Rifle Division was sent to intercept Guderian's 18th Panzer Division as it struck towards Smolensk. If Smolensk were to fall, Moscow would be no more than 230 miles behind the fighting lines. The Panzers had to be slowed down if they could not be stopped, no matter what the cost. It was a little more than six miles east of Borisov, near the village of Lipki that the two armored spearheads met. This was to be the first meeting that the units of Army Group Center would have with the superior T-34 and 52 ton monster KVll tanks.
Location
Borisov, Belarus
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The German Generalplan Ost aimed to use some of the conquered people as slave labour for the Axis war effort while acquiring the oil reserves of the Caucasus as well as the agricultural resources of various Soviet territories. Their ultimate goal included the eventual extermination, enslavement, Germanization and mass deportation to Siberia of the Slavic peoples, and to create more Lebensraum for Germany.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russian

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