My point was that the siege of Leningrad took a year and a half. The 'Russian Winter' doesn't exist in summer. Clearly it was more than 'basically the Russian winter' that stopped the Germans, especially since the German war machine was proven able to take out heavyweights like France in only 6 weeks.
No-one doubts that the Russian winters were a significant factor, but your original statement pandering to mythology, not fact. Russians were throwing themselves into a meat-grinder to stop the Germans - at Stalingrad, the average life expectancy of a newly-arrived soldier was 1 day, and for an officer it was 3 days. Writing off that kind of sacrifice as "nah, basically it was the winter that did it" is living in a fantasy world.
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My point was that the siege of Leningrad took a year and a half. The 'Russian Winter' doesn't exist in summer. Clearly it was more than 'basically the Russian winter' that stopped the Germans, especially since the German war machine was proven able to take out heavyweights like France in only 6 weeks.
No-one doubts that the Russian winters were a significant factor, but your original statement pandering to mythology, not fact. Russians were throwing themselves into a meat-grinder to stop the Germans - at Stalingrad, the average life expectancy of a newly-arrived soldier was 1 day, and for an officer it was 3 days. Writing off that kind of sacrifice as "nah, basically it was the winter that did it" is living in a fantasy world.