How did that tiny orange country nearly destroy the big green country?

Lol

>nearly destroy

They made it like 5% across the total breadth of the landmass and were driven back, tried again and made it 10% to stalingrad and got annihilated

It was doomed from the start, you can't win a ground war in russia it's a terrible idea and everyone that has tried has failed and will continue to fail for 1000 years. It's a logistical nightmare and the land will swallow any army given enough time

Leave Russia to me

>you can't win a ground war in russia it's a terrible idea and everyone that has tried has failed and will continue to fail for 1000 years

*teleports behind you*

They conquered the wheat fields and industry of the Ukraine, got the vital ports of the Crimea and Baltics, could use everything Belarus and Western Russia offered and threatened the cities of Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow, also as Hitler said they managed to stop all shipping on the Volga temporarily, at the same time occupying Kuban.

If the industry and military didn't retreat so fast and massively or the Americans and Brits hadn't sended their aid, the Soviets would've never withstood a German assault on Stalingrad, or any other place.

If only one minor thing during Barbarossa was changed, it could have succeeded,be it that the Germans just surround Stalingrad, the Finns attack Murmansk, the lines are shifted back 100km during winter 1941,so winter equipment can arrive, or if the Germans decided to not attack Kursk and instead use their forces to retreat to the Dnjepr, Dnestr and Düna and establish a mobile warfare doctrine they use to defend it along with flexible positional infantry groups and more equipment to decimate the Red Army and Partisans during the winter of 1944. Most important things in the Soviet Union were laying in the Western third of the country. As obvious as it gets.

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The Germans really should have started mounting a defensive war after 1941, using Osttruppen as reserves and building fighters for the West.

But they ARE Russia.

> Impossible to defeat
>Enslaved under Tartar Yoke from 1240-1480

Also the Germans should not have attacked before their armies were at full strength, both in men and equipment.Had Operation Barbarossa been at full strength there would have been more than 4,000,000 German troops involved instead of maybe 2,300,000.

Tiny orange country had more industry and not a much smaller population, less than a x2 difference. Also the resources of most of occupied Europe.

>1240-1480
>Russia
So i guess Austria-Hungary fought with Roman Empire?

>spaniards are suebi and visigothic and moorish
WEW

>kills some Russian princes which are slowly slipping into chaos and centralised when USSR was decentralised

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>nearly destroy

When?

The phrase "never invade russia in the winter" should also include "and if you do, do it right, for fucks sake, Adolf. You goddamn idiot"

He also waged and won a land war in china. the guy was nothing short of a genius of slaughter.
He probably could had attacked an US army base and get away with it, too.

>Mongols and Cumans/Tatars/Alans/etc. conquer the Russian/Ukrainian states and keep them vassals from 1237 to 1480
>Poles invade and occupy a few hundred thousand km of Russian territory in 1605 to 1618, keep it after crushing the Russian Army
>also burn down Russia
>Ottomans wage various wars against Russia and sometimes take territory
>Ottoman troops (Tatars and Turks) burn down Moscow in 1571
>Imperial Germans and Austro Hungarians smash the Russian Army and occupy the lands containing a third of their population and industry in 1914-1918
>would have kept it in the peace settlement with Russia but were FRANKED at the last minute

Also there's nothing of value in Russia east of the Urals (east of Moscow, arguably), which the Germans came rather close to. Except for the coast of the southeast Far East. Forget about Siberia.

The Rus' states were very weak. Especially compare to an entity that can sling around tens of thousands of cavalry.