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To: Regulator
Russians built simple, durable hammers (T-34) that they produced massively. Who said it? Zhukov? “Quantity is its own kind of quality”.

Early in Barbarossa when the Germans looked like they were going to rout the Russians, a German general observed a T-34, and remarked that if the Russians could mass produce them, Germany would lose the war.

34 posted on 11/06/2018 2:14:42 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah.

The Wehrmacht general staff had to put up with the Little Corporal’s stupid decisions even when they knew he was leading them to catastrophe.

Even with technical force multipliers they faced massive numbers in the Soviet divisions. If they had tactical nukes at the beginning of the war that would have made it work, but of course they didn’t. So it was a matter of time.


40 posted on 11/06/2018 2:31:44 PM PST by Regulator
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