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Originally Posted by godofthunder9010 From start to finish, there was a tendency to rush things on the USSR's part. Patience and better planning could have saved them casualties. The taking of Berlin, for instance, we again see a more hurried approach at the expense of lives. That's about as late in the war as you're gonna get. |
One of the reasons the taking of Berlin was rushed was the fact that Stalin made it a race between his two best marshals, Georgi Zhukov & Ivan Konev. The two didn't get along really well.