Germany went to war against a country that possessed superior manpower, industry, natural resources and required vast supply lines to conquer. The only reason they managed to get as far as they did because Soviet military command had been politicised and because they were completely unprepared for a German attack. German military tactics relied on concentrating forces at certain points, punching a hole through the lines, encircling the enemy forces and destroying them. This can be countered by defending in deep, but the Soviet forces were strung all along the burder in preparation of a Soviet attack, which played right into Germany's hands.
However, the USSR was a tad larger than France or Poland, which allowed the Soviet to regroup and adapt several times over. You speak of taking Moscow as some sort of end all but the centre of Soviet arms production was another 1000 miles to the east...
Again, the remarkable thing that happened wasn't that Germany failed to defeat the USSR, it was that they got so far against a superior foe.
If it makes you happy, I'll admit that when one side does everything right while the other does everything wrong, that side will win, but that's just a stupid way of analysing things.
However, the USSR was a tad larger than France or Poland, which allowed the Soviet to regroup and adapt several times over. You speak of taking Moscow as some sort of end all but the centre of Soviet arms production was another 1000 miles to the east...
Again, the remarkable thing that happened wasn't that Germany failed to defeat the USSR, it was that they got so far against a superior foe.
If it makes you happy, I'll admit that when one side does everything right while the other does everything wrong, that side will win, but that's just a stupid way of analysing things.
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