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55 - How Sausages Helped Win A Battle

55 - How Sausages Helped Win A Battle

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It’s well into the northern european winter season at the end of 1939. Five hundred thousand Russian Soviet Soldiers are making a collective push northwards, swarming the countryside as they go. They are armed to the hilt with tanks, explosives, machine guns, grenades and a staggeringly overwhelming number of troops.

But there is one thing that they didn’t count on, one thing that threatened to derail their entire military offensive altogether. And that one thing, was the humble sausage.

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Sources for this episode's research:

  • https://www.history.com/news/the-bizarre-sausage-war-that-inspired-hitler
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Varolampi_Pond
  • https://www.finlandatwar.com/the-sausage-war-an-army-marches-on-its-stomach/
  • https://sofrep.com/news/sausage-war-when-hunger-got-the-best-of-the-soviets/
  • https://short-history.com/sausage-war-733d71767317
  • https://pennytyrrellmcqueen.wixsite.com/togetherapart/single-post/2016/10/26/sausage-war


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