Why the Westerns like to say that the Sovient Union won over the Nazi Germany just because of the winter?

Question by AngryCat: Why the Westerns like to say that the Sovient Union won over the Nazi Germany just because of the winter?

Like people were doing nothing, like they weren't fighting hard and just were sitting on their butts waiting the cold to cope with the war.
Rob, it's just the way your books portray the situation. But it doesn't mention the fact that before 1939 the Soviet Union's army was twice smaller than German. It wasn't ready by the 1941. The plan was to refit it by 1942.




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Answer by Rob
The problem is that Stalin know about the troop build up at the border. He ignored it and did nothing to prepare for an invasion. The Russians were beat after the invasion. The plan was clear they could not stop the Germans so they tried to slow them down with small units. The Russians believed that Moscow would fall, they build many buildings to the east of Moscow to maintain government, and stay in the war in case Moscow fell. It is not that the Russians sat on their hands, its the fact that the winter did more damage and turned the war. Then the Russian troops pushed them back to Berlin.

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