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October 26th, 2007  
Doppleganger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kunikov
And when should he have launched the reforms? He was preparing his army for 'the most professional and season army in the world' by launching reforms and letting the Red Army grow to it's size of over 5 million. Find out how many men the Red Army had in 1938.
You will note from my post that I made no negative comment regarding the timing of the Red Army reforms, just that they were ongoing when the Germans attacked. From that point of view Stalin was just unlucky.

For the record, Blitzkrieg ideas did work in Russia. We have been over this tired old ground before but the numbers from June 22nd until October 2nd speak for themselves.
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