re: #54 Dopamine Fish

Yes, exactly. Hitler WAS winning the war in the East (in general, not just in Ukraine). Then winter came, and Hitler learned what Napoleon had learned three generations before.

You know, Napoleon actually did fine. He made it to Moscow. He occupied it. He just wasn’t anticipating having the Russians burn the entire city. Then also he dithered for weeks before deciding to return. Ironically, he was deceived by what was a remarkably mild late fall by Russian standards. I seem to recall that his troops had winter gear, but they mostly tossed it because they got tired of lugging it around during the steamy fall portion of the campaign.