>>17850943
>Stalin was a shit military leader.
No shit. Imagine a Soviet WW2 leader who actually gave a shit about his troops and using non-retarded tactics.

>be Smartov instead of Stalin
>don’t purge the Red Army in the late 30s
>keep all your smart generals
>when Hitler invades, Red Army isn’t run by political bootlickers
>actually know how to use tanks, don’t zerg rush everything
>Germany gets bogged down before reaching Smolensk
>Moscow never falls, Leningrad siege never happens
>Allies land in France in ‘43, not ‘44
war ends a year early
>save 10 million Soviet lives
>post-war Soviet Union still a superpower, but not a traumatized PTSD farm
picrel: Zhukov smiling with all his limbs intact