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February 21st, 2008  
MontyB
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Originally Posted by Doppleganger
So what I can gather from this is that:
  1. You see no difference between the Red Army of 1941/42 and the same army in 1944
If Antony Beevor is to be believed perhaps there wasn't that great a difference between the two periods, certainly the Red Army was better equipped by 1944 but I am not certain it was anymore professional.

This leads me to believe that a large part Germany's problems late in the war came from a degradation of its ability to fight rather than an improvement in the Russians ability.
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