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(The Total War @ Oct 29 2005, 08:38 AM) [post=40764]
Funnily enough, all of this would have been possible with the death of one man and to a lesser extent, the capture of a city.
What do you guys think?
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Only if, as someone said before, all this had been achieved inside 1941. Once the Germans had been stalled for a winter, a decisive victory became impossible because Ivan didn't stop his buildup of hardware, he knew he could withstand both siege and debacle, and - worst of all - Stalin began to allow his senior staff to advise him.
To have completed it inside 1941 would have meant starting earlier and abandoning the Italians in the Med and the desert. If they'd done that, even if they'd succeeded in Russia by early '42, it's anybody's guess whether they could've turned round the expulsion from Africa and probable collapse in southern Europe.
Regards,
MikB