Stalin, in the midst of Hitler's occupation of fourteen European countries, which had taken up so many military resources and surprise attacks, had already taken an absolute advantage, and had already inflicted a very unfavorable blow on the Soviet Union, Stalin was able to turn the tide, reverse the defeat, and finally achieve the greatest victory of the German fascists.
Hitler's two-front battle was extremely stupid. Stalin was also ready to attack Germany, and it took only a few days to attack, and a large number of combatants gathered on the border and immediately lost millions of people. The file order in their safe was offensive. This was the cause of the failure, which is revealed in very few memoirs.
Stalin was still militarily sensitive. When we discuss the military brilliance of Stalin and Hitler, we cannot ignore a context. Both are politicians. Politics and the military are in many cases a contradictory combination. Not all can go in one direction. It is difficult to think of a balance. So looking back at World War II, both Stalin and Hitler made stupid mistakes militarily. However, most of these mistakes were necessary to pay in the context of the time.
Stalin was able to keep a clear head at critical times, correct his mistakes, and grasp international relations well! A typical example of Hitler is that after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States did not declare war on Germany, and Germany took the initiative to declare war on the United States!
I only know that Stalin did not know how to advance or retreat in World War II, did not listen to Zhukov, did not want to abandon Kiev, lost Kiev, and also lost a million elite divisions, he accepted the lesson, no longer interfered with the commander's waving, Hitler did not listen to Manstein's refusal to let Paulus break through into Stalingrad, but wanted him to hold on, wanted to make troops repair and replenish, but the Soviet army had sufficient war resources, and so on Hitler often interfered in the operation of excellent commanders, and it was strange that he was undefeated
The attack on Voronezh in 1942 was the first target of the "Blue Plan", but it was the transportation hub in front of Moscow, which inevitably led to an all-out counterattack by the Soviet army, and this was also the case later. Obviously, crossing the Don River to capture Voronezh was too appetiteful, resulting in a large number of troops being difficult to maneuver, and failing to make good use of the wide Don River as a defensive support, so as to quickly dispatch the main force to encircle the troops of the Soviet southwest, part of the Voronezh Front, and even the Southeast Front, and try their best to eliminate the living forces of the Soviet Army, so that the summer war started favorable conditions.
To say that Stalin was not a military man is ignorant. Even Zhukov commented that Stalin was a well-deserved strategist and military man. During the civil war from 1918 to 1918, Stalin attacked the Soviet Union and commanded wherever it was dangerous, and finally defeated the domestic white bandit army and the foreign invading army. Any battle of World War II could not be separated from his summons of generals to personally plan. The defeat in the early stage of the war with Germany was the main reason for the factors of science and technology industry and weapons and equipment.
If you have to compare, Hitler can dump Stalin two streets, Stalin sent 700,000 Soviet troops to invade Finland, which has only a hundred thousand troops, and the results are unbearable. Hitler's Germany failed for many reasons, the most fundamental of which was that evil does not suppress righteousness. If the ten most outstanding generals were discharged from the European theater of World War II, the German army could account for half of them.
The military level of these two men was half a pound to eight two, and they were all materials for going to the army to be a corporal. Stalin's strength was his ability to listen to the advice of the contrarians, and the Soviet generals basically quarreled with him, especially rokossovsky and Stalin's fights were widely circulated. Hitler, on the other hand, guderian asked him to go home and farm, and Rommel asked him to build a "wall" on the Atlantic side.
In the case of troop strength and weapons, the Soviet army was killed in a second, four or five million people were captured, and the division was lost, if it were not for the great military assistance of the United States and Britain, would the Soviet Union have a future? Therefore, in the long war, the competition is national strength, the Soviet Union has the strong support of the world's number one power and the British Empire, and the victory is a cruel victory, dragging the Germans to death. So, it's not Stalin Bullby, it's the giant standing behind him: the United States. Looking at Germany, the manpower is less than half that of the Soviet Union, and the national strength is even more incomparable. The strategic depth is incomparable to that of Russia. Therefore, when military genius meets a vast country, it is inevitable that it will lose.
In the Battle of Moscow, Stalin dared to fight for his life, but Hitler did not dare to fight for his life, Hitler was good at attacking in a favorable situation, not good at resisting adversity, Stalin was good at resisting adversity and was really not afraid of death. It can be compared to this analogy, Hitler kung fu is good, Stalin kung fu is hard, and finally Stalin is born hitler dead. Stalin was still terrible.
First of all, Hitler's great success in the early stages of the Second World War was due to the high military quality of the Wehrmacht, the gamblers' desperate gambles, two-front battles, and the ignorance of the great strategic depth of the former Soviet Union; in contrast, Stalin, although the purge campaign had greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army and lost a large number of excellent commanders, decisively used a large number of budding generals, supported by iron will, and finally won. In a comprehensive evaluation, Stalin was much higher than Hitler.
Hitler was a military genius, but he failed Stalin for several fatal reasons, the first being climatic and geographical factors, the Soviet Union was too cold, too big. Second, it has lost the hearts of the people, the so-called people who have won the hearts of the people have won the world, and the Soviet Union has the support of the United States and Britain. The third Hitler was madly losing his mind in the later period. The fourth Stalin victory was in Yiyi and verified Sun Tzu's art of war.
Hitler, Stalin, and in terms of military affairs, the two are not on the same level. Hitler, orator, politician, careerist. When it comes to military affairs, he can only talk on paper. At the beginning of World War II, he listened to the opinions of the marshals and generals, and they were under their own command, and the war went very smoothly. It was also the root cause of his ambition to annex all of Europe. Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, this was the beginning of Hitler's nightmare. It should be known that not long before that, he signed a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union, one of which was mutual non-aggression, he unilaterally broke the treaty, and the large-scale invasion of the Soviet Union by the senseless division doomed him to have no good fruit to eat. Stalin was originally a field marshal of the United Front, and in terms of military strategy, you Hitler was about one higher salary. With no choice but to face aggression, he waved his giant hand and organized a just anti-aggression patriotic war. Although the war was arduous, it did not flinch, and finally conquered Berlin, destroyed Hitler's lair, built a Berlin Wall between Germany, and since then there has been East Germany and West Germany in the world. In fact, this is also a victory for strategic thinking.