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Old 07-17-2013, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
Hitler was going to starve them all anyway.

I've heard tell that if he would've stuck to his original invasion plan he might well have beat them. There was a delay that moved the start out a couple weeks and put it too close to winter. Even still it looked bad enough to make the coward Stalin run like the rat he was.

Hitler was already at the point of madness where he was irrational. And thank God for it.

Pete
It was best for the Soviet people that Stalin tucked tail and ran. That left his generals, what was left of them anyhow, to conduct the war without his meddlesome interference.

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