![]() ![]() The Soviet forces built powerful defenses on the Kursk Bulge, which included eight defensive lines and frontiers with a total depth of 250-300 kilometers. It would be better if we exhaust our enemy with our defenses, destroy their tanks and then, introducing fresh reserves, transition to a general offensive and finish off the main group of the enemy’s forces…” ![]() In the report to Stalin from April 8, Marshal Georgy Zhukov informed: “I consider the transition of our troops to the offensive in the coming days with the goal to pre-empt our enemy inexpedient. Having achieved a number advantage over the enemy in all respects, the Soviet military command, nonetheless, decided to act defensively. By the beginning of the large-scale battle in the region of the bulge, it had concentrated 1,3 million soldiers (with 600,000 more in reserves), more than 26,500 guns and mortars, more than 4,900 tanks and self-propelled artillery units and about 2,900 aircraft. ![]()
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