OT:US don't qualify for EU membership, don't spank children, WW2 history.

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Originally posted by Ruatha:
Was there any industrial capacity left in Moscow?
I thought it was all moved east in case Moscow would fall.
Wasn't the Soviet army bad trained and under equipped? In that case it wouldn't be very hard for Soviet to fill the ranks again as they had a vast population to recruit from.

So I also belive that even if Stalingrad and Moscow had fallen the Russians would have eventually recaptured it.

(We've fought them all our history until we stopped fighting almost 200 years ago (our Last war was with Russia, and when they set foot on Swedish soil we realized war wasn't for us....) , and they've always retaken everything we've occupied, even if it took them hundreds of years to do it sometimes!)

Yes, moscow remained a big industrial city throought the war. Part of equipment and a lot of people were evacuated but not all. When I write there was nothing east from Stalingrad, I did not mean there was nothing east from Moscow. The major industrial cities - Kujbyshev, Ufa, Cheljabinsk, Gorkij, etc. were still hundreds and hundreds miles away from the front even at the worst times. There was no reason whatsoved to capitulate even if Germans crossed Volga. Remember, 6th Army was destroyed to a man just a few months later.