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October 18th, 2007  
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Originally Posted by Kunikov
There's no such thing as a 'two season' blitzkrieg campaign.
Says who?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kunikov
A Blitzkrieg campaign is a quick battle, at most a month or two, and that's what the Germans planned for.
In a 2 season campaign the Germans would ideally only be actually fighting for around a maximum of 5 months in each season. Barbarossa lasted around 6 months and that was a Blitzkrieg campaign interspersed with more traditional 'keil und kassel' operations to reduce encircled pockets.

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Originally Posted by Kunikov
Stalin didn't ignore 'all the signals' rather he was suspicious of them. If he saw forces for a real campaign against the Soviet Union, that'd be a different story.
Well he did virtually nothing about the signals, despite being warned by 3 separate, reliable sources. There is nothing to suggest he'd react any differently to an altered Operation Barbarossa.
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