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The vast expanses of southern Russia and the Ukraine provided the Eastern Leading arena where the armies of Third Reich dictator Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin wrestled lethally for supremacy in 1943. Limitless moving plains - ideal "tank country" - vast forests, sprawling metropolitan areas, and great tracts of agricultural land developed the surroundings over which millions of men and a large number of the era's most formidable military vehicles fought for their individual overlords and ideologies. The victor could expect to reap very high stakes indeed. If Hitler's Wehrmacht smashed the Red Military, he could no longer expect a lightning conquest, but the Fuhrer could expect the Soviet strongman to sue for calmness on terms advantageous to Germany. If, conversely, the Red Military triumphed, Stalin could continue rallying the Soviet Union and move closer to expelling the loathed "Nemets" invaders from Russian land - and perhaps carve out a Soviet empire in Central European countries.
