For all their vaunted prowess, the only reason the Soviets beat the Nazis was that Hitler was an ass, fighting on two fronts and attempting to be his own General, and the fact that they simply threw bodies and materiel into the fray, heedless of cost or human life.
“For all their vaunted prowess, the only reason the Soviets beat the Nazis was that Hitler was an ass, fighting on two fronts and attempting to be his own General, and the fact that they simply threw bodies and materiel into the fray, heedless of cost or human life.”
I’d say that they won ALSO due to the ingeniousness and industriousness of their people when their backs were up against the wall, producing “good enough” weaponry in mass quantities under hellish conditions. Stalin supposedly said words to the effect that quantity has a quality of its own. In the meantime, the Germans kept making increasingly complex and sophisticated weaponry, at great expense with little effect. There’s a lesson to be learned in there somewhere...
And they had massive logistics help from the USA. If you’ve never seen the detailed list of what we sent, it is staggering.