They Were Ordered to Hold… And the Soviet Line Never Broke | WW2 Eastern...

On the Eastern Front , orders were often brutally simple: Hold. No retreat. Outgunned, under-equipped, and facing elite German formations, Soviet soldiers absorbed assault after assault — refusing to collapse where Blitzkrieg demanded it. In frozen forests, ruined villages, and open steppe, these stands forced German commanders to confront an uncomfortable truth: speed and shock had limits . This…