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Originally posted by tabs
There is NO CONJECTURE or what ifs here, simple historical fact. It all fits together like a jig saw puzzle.
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Your missing my point tabs. Very probably neither of those events would have even come into play had Barbarosa started in May as originally planned rather than late June (postponed to invade Yugoslavia). Guderian might well have been in Moscow before the fall rains even came.
Also, had army group Centre armour not been halted and wheeled south ( in July as I recall) to trap and annhilate a large but already defeated Russian army, they probably could have driven straight into Moscow as there were essentially no Russians between them and Moscow to stop them at that time. The time lost gave Stalin time to start preparing for the defense of Moscow. A great tactical victory but strategically a bad move?
A very complex issue is it not ??