michaelmaltby
Colonel
We've had this conversation before IIRC. I said then and I say now ....Hitler's Nazi would have never broken through the Urals ... the war without help would have been 2-3 more years and millions more dead.
Russia held at Moscow ... the regime held at Moscow ... and that is the key to Russia's victory. By Stalingrad it was clear that Nazis could be bled white ... by Kursk the Russians knew how to play and win ... their way.
The war in the East was ideological in a way the western front never was .... and Communism as a means of social organization triumphed. The food and equipment was much appreciated by those who used it and were fed by it ... and it would have been tougher without, but there is no doubt in my mind that Russia would have held at the Urals.
MM
Russia held at Moscow ... the regime held at Moscow ... and that is the key to Russia's victory. By Stalingrad it was clear that Nazis could be bled white ... by Kursk the Russians knew how to play and win ... their way.
The war in the East was ideological in a way the western front never was .... and Communism as a means of social organization triumphed. The food and equipment was much appreciated by those who used it and were fed by it ... and it would have been tougher without, but there is no doubt in my mind that Russia would have held at the Urals.
MM