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Originally Posted by MontyB [/list]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. | Wouldn't the Likes of Zhukov and other professional commanders have taken over making military decisions from Stalin and inept generals of the immediate post purge period? On the German side the reverse was happening with Hitler taking over.
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