The Soviet Union was huge, but most of its population was in the western parts of the country. The Soviet union was bleeding, and they really did not have the vast manpower pools that are often mentioned in popular history. It’s often said that Germany was unprepared for the Soviet winter, but that’s at best a half truth, and they had winter clothes ready, they just did not have the trucks, trains and horse carts to bring both the necessary winter clothes to the front line if they also wanted to bring food and ammunition, and without food and ammunition they would surely have lost sooner.Īt the same time the Soviet union had lost their most fertile land, and large parts of their most densely populated areas. The winter certainly did not help them, but the supply lines of Germany were stretched to their breaking point even before that, equipment was breaking down and the losses they had incurred during the invasion were starting to add up. That’s the popular narrative surrounding the turning point of Barbarossa, and while there’s some truth to it, it’s a serious over-simplification, and one that tends to paint the winter as the main deciding factor in what stopped the German advance. And not just hold them back, but even push them back. But somehow, through tenacity, desperation and the help of General Winter who decided to make life extra difficult for the Germans, they were able to pull through, and hold back the advancing German forces. Germany was right at the gates of Moscow and to the world at large the fall of the Soviet Union looked inevitable. The defense of Moscow sees a massive amount of Russian soldiers try to hold out against the advancing Germans Story & Setting
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