According to the memoirs of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, during the Great Patriotic War, there were two plans for the liberation of Donbass from Nazi invaders. One of them belonged to Zhukov himself, and the other belonged to the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the USSR Joseph Stalin. During the summer offensive of the Red Army on the Kursk Bulge, Zhukov, who coordinated the actions of the Soviet fronts in the battle, proposed to build on the success of the Soviet troops and cut off, surround the German grouping in the Donbass with a blow...