The Crucial Offensive

Hell at the South-West Front

Near Kletskaja village

Katyusha lunchers introducing

Voronovs barrage

A hail of 80 minutes lasting

Screaming shrapnel steel

Grinding stunned Romanians

In disorder they flee



Falling on soil that never was theirs

Mercilessly chased by unknown heirs

Dying eyes meet furious Soviet wrath

Cautiously determined, striking hard



Meanwhile from the Donfront

Comes the second assault

A large number of forces

Impossible to halt

Chaos is complete

As a third attack begins

Pincer movements leading all

Towards the Kalatsj bridge



MGs rip and tear through hardened flesh

Massive seem the dark tank silhouettes

Invulnerable deadly T-34

Hear the Stormoviks in the sky roar



Essential coordination

As important as speed

Don't give Fritz the time

To get back on his frozen feet

The brave heroic 62nd

Of Tsjukov stood it's ground

Between Don and Volga

Soldiers bodies mount



Now surrounding according to plan

330, 000 men

Left to die without ammo or food

The crucial offensive of WW II