From July 10 to September 20 there were battles for the city of Smolensk, and really for the opportunity to cross the Dnieper River, as the main obstacle on the way to Moscow. The front line was 650 km.., Front depth of 250 km. More than 700 have died.Thousands of Russian soldiers and 100,000 Wehrmacht soldiers. 1 к 7. According to the memoirs of the son of the leader Vasily Stalin, The most dangerous part of the front line was the tank columns themselves on the march. They were openly attacked from the sky by German bombers. There were no Russian planes over the battlefields.. Any second-grader from a real school should have understood the meaning of the Dnieper River, Like a wave of water. Yes, killed, They put all the second-graders away... That's the trouble. Even now, Today, patriots of the country wring their hands over the incompetent leaders of the USSR, over the generals, and others... There’s nothing you can fix. And no one made any conclusions... We lost 1941 in 1938-1939.. Undeniably lost... Peace to the dead Slavs. Children of farmers...