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>not attacking Moscow

Lmao, taking Moscow in 1941 with the Red Army still in the field would've been creating Stalingrad a year early, but with most of the German army trapped there instead of just a corps. That big winter 1941 Soviet counterattack would've still happened.

Hitler was actually right that the two main objectives of Barbarossa needed to be Leningrad (meaning logistics could be shipped up the Baltic and offloaded directly onto the Soviet rail network) and cutting off the Soviet supply of oil from the Caucasus (without which all those T-34s would've been useless). Some of the generals thought that taking Moscow would have been like taking Paris, ignoring that Moscow had only been the capital of the USSR for like 20 years. Barbarossa ended up being a compromise between those two positions.

After the war, Zhukov said Leningrad-Baku was the correct strategy. The reason the Moscow myth continues is because the guys who survived blamed the dead guy for everything that went wrong