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Blog: The Battle of Kursk

The new blog article is devoted to the Battle of Kursk, one of the most significant battles of WWII. Thousands of people died in that struggle, hundreds of tanks were broken down. And now World of Tanks provides you a look back at the days of the Battle of Kursk.

"While mentioning the Battle of Kursk in front of most people immediately appear well known newsreel with attacking tank spearheads with infantry support and flying at low level IL-2 attack aircrafts. Huge number of scientific and journalistic publications and research works were written. A lot of popular-science and costume drama films about the Battle of Kursk Salient were created. All these materials have firmly ingrained in the public mind the association of the battles near Prokhorovka with the tank battle of July 12. And each research work gives to us the number of armored units and their qualitative characteristics, battle losses of armored vehicles, as well as the number of repaired vehicles (incredible efforts of field repair teams) but each work disregards the fact that in the end it was people who won the battle."

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