From: "Robert Comer" 

> You forget General Winter.

Nope, not at all, that was a big reason why Russia prevailed on their
front. Germany would have bogged down before winter can if they could have
devoted all their resources to the east.

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Bob Comer





"Adam"  wrote in message
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> Robert Comer wrote:
>>> OK so they took on & beat the vast bulk of the german forces (75%+).
>>
>> Russian ground forces, I have no dispute on that fact, but it wouldn't
>> have been that way without the other front.
>>
>>> everyone else, (the US, UK, French, Greeks, Yugoslavs etc etc) had to
>>> divide the remaining 25%- between them.
>>
>> That's a VERY simple (and wrong) way of looking at it.  Thought
>> experiment -- what happens when you take away the western front, move all
>> those forces to the east, give Germany back its manufacturing capacity
>> and an overwhelming airforce, take away western aid to Russia, including
>> military aid.  Answer, if Russia wins, it'll take a whole lot longer and
>> it's truly in doubt whether they would, Russia just didn't have the tech
>> to do it, they had only bodies to throw at the Germans.
>>
>
> You forget General Winter.
>
> Adam

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