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M60A3TTS -> RE: Video on Operation Bagration for those interested (6/26/2020 8:46:55 PM)
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No, it wasn't partisans and any German reorganization in relation to tanks didn't have an impact on Red Army organization.
In the first case, we have to go back to 6 July 1942. 24th Panzer Division was entering the city of Voronezh. As the battle for the city started, it had already been realized by the leadership in Moscow that the Bryansk Front which had responsibility for the city was too much for one individual to manage. A day later, the Bryansk Front was broken in two and the Voronezh Front created. The commander of the Bryansk Front, Filipp Golikov would take the latter and Nikandr Chibisov took Golikov's old command. Neither would remain in their jobs long, as Generals Rokossovsky and Vatutin would replace them albeit for a limited time until the main action swung to the south.
Advancing to Spring, 1944, a commission had been sent from Moscow to determine why Western Front had performed so poorly to date in their offensives against AGC. As was mentioned in the video, the Red Army was struggling to achieve much with superiority in men and supplies. Similar to the first case, it was determined that the Western Front was too large, so it was split up into 2nd and 3rd Belorussian Fronts. General Sokolovsky was relieved for cause and in his place Generals Petrov, later Zakharov of 2nd Belorussian and General Cherniakhovsky of 3rd Belorussian took command. For their part, there is no evidence to suggest the Germans were aware of this. So they were expecting to face off against the same old foe, and what they ended up getting in June was quite different.
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