Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "10 Human Mistakes That Made the World Stand Still" video.

  1. They were briefly successful, it wasn't until nations in western Europe noticed higher than normal background radiation levels that the USSR was forced to admit something was very wrong.
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  2. Russia has a small Western border: but the territory very quickly flares outwards to both the north and the south. If you aren't able to spread your forces to cover all of that, you'll be flanked very quickly. Plus you need to have LONG supply lines to reach Moscow.
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