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Originally Posted by Ashes What were the Soviets top mistakes. |
1. Winter War with Finland. Neutral of friendly Finns could be much better as Finns as enemies. If not more, than lack of front in border with Finland provide opportunity to free a bunch of divisions, which could be used against Germans in West.
2. Wrong organization of armored forces - the practice of war showed that there is no need for large armored corps with thousands of tanks. Tank brigades or divisions were more efficient. At the same point - in Soviet tank division of 1941 was too much tanks and too less infantry. Germans had better organization of tank divisions and perform much better.
3. Existence of political officers in units with rights, equal with rights of CO. Not always, but for some situations political officer's point of view was not right from point of view of military theory and practice, although unit must act `politically correctly`. Actually, Stalin's order from November of 1942, which strictly limited rights of political officers, was not just for fun - I am sure it has a reasonable basis (mistakes in previous battles, made by influence of `politically`, not military, correctly decisions).