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Why were the Soviets ineffective in 1941?

Before the tide turned at Stalingrad, the Soviet Union faced one of its darkest years. In 1941, despite vast manpower and ...
Courage, toughness and weapons were peripheral factors in the Battle of Stalingrad. It was the tactical superiority of the Russian soldier in a range of environments that was the key to the Russian ...
Vasily Grossman, trans. from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler. New York Review Books, $24.95 trade paper (512p) ISBN 979-8-89623-008-3 ...
NO battle of the Second World War has captured the public imagination as consistently as the clash between Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia at Stalingrad. For 70 years the story of the fight for ...