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To: bentway who wrote (864631)	6/11/2015 9:34:45 PM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578134

No, I think the history I rely on talks about the snipers that the Russians had BEHIND their own lines that were only there to shoot anybody that tried to retreat. If you had that behind you and the Germans in front of you, you'd probably go after the Germans. The Russians would have been easy to take out without the A-bomb.

To: bentway who wrote (864631)	6/11/2015 9:55:24 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578134

I dunno. A key mistake the Nazis made was how brutal they were to the peasants in the areas they controlled. The peasants weren't particularly attached to Moscow, on the contrary they had a lot of reasons to hate and fear Moscow. Treated differently, the Nazis could have been considered liberators, instead they provided a lot of cannon fodder. We probably wouldn't do that. In addition the Red Army was pretty much decimated by the end of the war. But, as you note, there is no slam dunk in war. Look at the Iraq War. Or Vietnam. On paper, both were cake walks. And they were when the enemies fought set battles. The problem is, that isn't the only way to fight a war. I suspect that Russia would have turned into an Iraq, writ large.