Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Operation Saturn, revised as Operation Little Saturn, was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in the northern Caucasus and Donets Basin regions of the Soviet Union from December 1942 to February 1943.The success of Operation Uranus, launched on 19 November 1942, had trapped 250,000 - 300,000 troops of General Friedrich Paulus' German 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army in Stalingrad. To exploit this victory, the Soviet general staff planned a winter campaign of continuous and highly ambitious offensive operations, codenamed \"Saturn\". Later Joseph Stalin reduced his ambitious plans to a relatively small campaign codenamed \"Operation Little Saturn\". The offensive succeeded at applying pressure to over stretched German forces in Eastern Ukraine and driving back the occupying forces. Even so, the Soviets themselves became over extended, setting up the stages for the German offensives of the Third Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk."@en }
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- Operation_Little_Saturn abstract "Operation Saturn, revised as Operation Little Saturn, was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front of World War II that led to battles in the northern Caucasus and Donets Basin regions of the Soviet Union from December 1942 to February 1943.The success of Operation Uranus, launched on 19 November 1942, had trapped 250,000 - 300,000 troops of General Friedrich Paulus' German 6th Army and 4th Panzer Army in Stalingrad. To exploit this victory, the Soviet general staff planned a winter campaign of continuous and highly ambitious offensive operations, codenamed \"Saturn\". Later Joseph Stalin reduced his ambitious plans to a relatively small campaign codenamed \"Operation Little Saturn\". The offensive succeeded at applying pressure to over stretched German forces in Eastern Ukraine and driving back the occupying forces. Even so, the Soviets themselves became over extended, setting up the stages for the German offensives of the Third Battle of Kharkov and the Battle of Kursk.".