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Comments by "James the Other One" (@jamestheotherone742) on "Why Soviet Logistics weren’t as nightmarish as German Logistics in WW2" video.
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@17:45 This is why the envelopment if not besiege and capture of Moscow was the pivotal failure of the Germans in Barbarossa. The USSR inherited the Imperial Russian centralized infrastructure and transportation system. And then doubled down on it with central planning where the capitol was not only the key communications hub, but also where resources were routed thru and distributed (not just the military either). Cutting Moscow off from not only receiving resources, but in not being able to coordinate and send them out. Its very likely that national organized resistance would have collapsed as the adhoc control and logistical systems in Samara (
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