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Does anyone take Suvorov seriously anymore? Glantz pretty decisively debunked him with Soviet archival material. Though a new book is coming out that does indicate Stalin did intend to fight Hitler when he was ready, but not in 1941...

I think Stolfi was basically correct that the Moscow-Gorki space was obtainable if they attacked Moscow in August. For one thing they'd seize a huge chunk of the Soviet rail system much earlier and likely a huge amount of rolling stock that wouldn't be evacuated in time in Russia's main rail...

It wasn't about the rail line length, supplies were pretty timely and it wasn't that far from Germany to Russia, it was the capacity of the lines to get trains through. Change the gauge didn't increase the ground pressure carrying capacity of the trains and wider trains have lower ground...

Again, numbers out of context and saying flat out incorrect things. Pulling a Trump and just saying wrong doesn't make you right. You're flat out incorrect about your numbers in 1940-41 as they had the largest fleet of vehicles ever assembled in the world to that point for Barbarossa and...

The issue is more likely that the Soviets are deploying further back and closer to the Stalin Line, which will be more intact ITTL if not entirely so if the Germans can start that far forward. Makes it tougher to break through beyond Pskov, but will enable a quicker conquest of Estonia and...