stalin decided to die with moscow and refused to evacuate so if they had taken moscow there would have also been a succession crisis during such a crucial time and the sobiets would have crumbled.  i'm not sure if hitler was aware of it, but if he was then i'm disappointed he didn't just steamroll moscow and say fuck the caucasus til later.  it's crazy how many things that individually would have won him the war that he didn't do out of either mistake or too much empathy like dunkirk.  or a misplaced lack of honor in other cases. they fell for some dumb tricks because they assumed their enemies were above doing things like that just because they wouldn't do it.  which is why we must learn from their example.  we can be the good guys when we win.
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