"He didn't believe the war had really started..."
In this episode, we explore the tense and surreal year of 1940-1941. While we were finally settling into our studies at Lviv Polytechnic and spending a quiet summer in Dubno, the "Legal Mafia" of the era—Stalin and Hitler—were playing a deadly game of chess.
We dive into the internal collapse of the Soviet military command, the tragic execution of General Tukhachevsky based on fake German documents, and the misplaced trust that left the Eastern Front wide open for the Nazi blitzkrieg. Discover how a community of students from Warsaw and Vilna stayed together, even as their local friendships began to fracture under the weight of global geopolitics.
Key Highlights:
The transition of Lviv Polytechnic professors to post-war Poland.
Life in Dubno: The final peaceful break before the 1941 invasion.
Stalin’s purge: How the loss of Tukhachevsky and Blücher crippled the Red Army.
The "Molotov-Ribbentrop" betrayal and the shock of June 1941.
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