Originally posted by AtW
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The soviet army had defensive power in 1941, even though it got battered, but it's offensive power was almost nil.
think about the winter war against Finland a couple of years earlier.
It's a lot harder to attack than to defend.
Think about a hedgehog that can curl up to protect itself against a pack of dogs, but could never attack a dog itself.
Thanks to Stalin, the USSR was a basket case.
On the other hand, Stalin was smart enough to step back and let the military and the technocrats take over, which led to the Soviet resurgance and fight back. unlike Adolph, who proceeded to screw the axis war machine
The Soviets were able to attack in winter 41, due to the Siberian reinforcements, then at Stalingrad almost a year later, due to the very stretched Rumanian slovak and Italian line, then a year later because of the massed tank armies that they had built up
apart from that, there wasnt much attack in the Soviet army

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