At the end of 1942, as a result of a large-scale counteroffensive by Soviet troops as part of Operation Uranus, General Friedrich Paulus' 6th Army found itself surrounded on the Volga near Stalingrad. The German command urgently decided to transfer four tank divisions to his rescue, removing them from the Velikiye Luki-Rzhev section of the front. To prevent this, a representative of the Supreme Command Headquarters ordered the commander of the mechanized corps, Nikolai Shubnikov, to break through the enemy's defenses with his own forces and create the appearance of a major offensive
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