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What went so right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kiev_(1941)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Smolensk_(1941)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Kharkov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bia%C5%82ystok%E2%80%93Minsk
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>>3393039
Russian incompetence
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>>3393039
>so right
>Battle of Smolensk
Barbarossa was fucked up from the beggining, they suffered worse casualty ratio against the Red army than against the French, Smolensk was OKW autism that lost them Moscow
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Smolensk took far longer than expected and effectively slowed down German advance towards Moscow. Instead of driving further east they spent two months cleaning Soviet pockets around Mostok and Mogilev. They couldn't go around them even if they wanted because then they would have three Soviet armies biting them by the ass.
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>>3393100
Smolesnk was Von Kleist not listening to orders and opening the road the moscow making an attack inevitable.
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>>3393112
They actually did go around Smolensk in a pincher movement
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