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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
Russia's strategy was very simple and effective. They sent waves of men to be killed. In the above mentioned movie it showed a seargant telling a group of new soldiers that he had one gun for every 10 soldiers. He said to advance in a row and as the front man was shot to grab the gun and commence firing. if anybody retreated they were shot with machine guns set up to do that task alone.
Stalin a great war leader....hmmm... well, he was successful. Without his soldiers we would have had a real problem in Europe.
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I am not a fan of Stalin. I think the guy was sick emotionally. Fundamentally evil people do exist in this world unfortunately. Yet he was able enough to direct breaking the back of the German army.
The Germans knew they were probably finished in the fall of 1941. Russia has always possessed the best intelligence system In the world.
Personally I believe Stalin lured them deep into Russia using their own propaganda that Russians where a pushover. Remember he just fed enough replacement troops into Stalingrad to hold on and look weak. Simular tactics where used before Moscow. He even left the road open to get them there.
He manipulated things so they would be at certain places at certain times. Where their supply lines and weapons where not of much use and the German troops where hungry and very cold out in the open. Then he slammed into them with a well equipped and fed forces that just about destroyed them.
Artillery was the great killer of soldiers in wars. He made sure they had far more than the Germans plus the first rocket launchers of sufficient quantity.
What was left of the German center front retreated in almost panic for a couple of hundred miles before Moscow. It took a maximum effort to establish another front line and the Germans where not even certain they could.
The mass of Studebaker trucks gave the Russians a mobility that the Germans just did not have. Plus the Germans had very limited fuel where the Russian army had all they wanted.
Anyways I suspect Stalin remained very functional where Hitler probably fell into heavy drug usage as the war progressed.