A fair amount of column A, a fair amount of column B, given that uh the life span of a Soviet soldier at Stalingrad was ... short. (Probably not 24 hours as is sometimes argued, but not long.) https://twitter.com/ispencer/status/1329540047385874435 …
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Defeating the Soviet Union on Soviet soil was always going to require overcoming the USSR’s greatest weapon: having a massive population the government was more than willing to sacrifice to defeat Hitler. The Nazis couldn’t do it.
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(Also the entire attempt to take Stalingrad was stupid.)
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(There was a lot of post-war writing implying that Nazi war planning was pure brilliance subverted by Soviet willingness to die en masse but the reality is more “you let these morons run a war in the East, and well”
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Nobody could have foreseen this except for everyone who had ever read a book about literally any war in Russian history.
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