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13,000 tons of munitions sounds impressive if you have no sense scale. A single Brooklyn-class cruiser could send roughly 175 tons of ammunition addressed "to whom it may concern" in about 20 minutes.

@History Learner, Successfully invading Russia is almost as difficult as successfully invading the US. With the US it's "there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass" because there is more than one privately owned firearm for every American adult. With Russia it's "what grass are they...

The Soviets would have held. The longest WWII Eastern Front lines were actually about 1,500 miles. Leningrad to Stalingrad is about St. Louis to the Atlantic coast in less than 24 hours by car.