>>7813300OK I usually just shitpost on /bant/ but I'll get real for a minute:
Your dad is unironically correct, Stalin was just as stubborn as Hitler and like him refused to evacuate his capitol. Barbarossa was actually a smashing success in most sectors and it was specifically the drive on Moscow (Fall Taifun/Plan Typhoon) that stalled. Also, the USSR at this point had just gone undergone massive purges in all political and military sectors and packed with recently-minted Stalin loyalists. No Stalin means these people are suddenly under the gone from former anti-Stalinists and the Wehrmacht at the same time. There's a sgnificant possibility that the whole rotten structure does indeed come down with one swift kick if that swift kick eliminates Stalin as a factor.
My "How to win the war for the Reich" plan:
>in descending order of importance1st of all, focus Kriegsmarine resources into U-boats and Panzerschiff, forget vanity projects like the Bismark and Tirpitz. Use PzrSf in numbers to tie up RN heavy surface combatants and the U-boats to strangle the UK.
2nd, let Mussolinni fend for himself in Greece and the Balkans unless the British actually land a substantial body of troops, it will delay Barbarossa by vital weeks and push Taifun into October rather than August.
3rd, MAKE SURE von Bock has what he needs to ensure a breakthrough at the Moscow Suburbs. Barbarossa is workable, but in the end it succeeds or fails with Fall Taifun.
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