From: Adam Flinton 

jeff wrote:

>>> Again, there was that certain problem of the Eastern front taking
>>> priority..
>>> From what I understand, it wasn't won by strength of tactics, but by
>>> simple logistics - the Russians simply ground the Germans under by
>>> having
>>> massively more people and equipment (eventually) to toss at them.
>>>
>>
>> Don't forget the Great General Winter.
>>
>> However it should be pointed out that the Red Army got to be very very
>> good by fighting the cream of the German forces.
>>
>> The easy example of this is the way the Red Army simply rolled up the
>> Japanese Army in China at the tail end of the war.
>>
>> Adam
>
>
> Having shipped several divisions back east from Germany to do so...

Indeed but they didn't just want to beat Japan, they wanted a Zone of
influence afterwards which they achieved (China is communist as is North
Korea (another former Japanese colony) etc.

& then the borders of that area became an interesting balance of power
place till the fall of the SU (e.g. SE Asia) & even now (because of the
sole remaining communist major power i.e. the PRC).

However remember that the big surprise for the germans was the arrival (esp
in a nasty winter) of the "siberian divisions" which were far
eastern so in one way they were just going home via manchuria.

Adam

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