Atlas shrugs, Atlas starves. The End. The most fatal flaw in Ayn Rand's book.

[blindpig]

32. Resources yes, but yet largely undeveloped.

So much to do, so little time. Given the lose of industrial base at the onset I'd say their preformance was nothing less than fantastic.

The Soviets prepared as best as able. Got to also consider that they were facing the possibility of a two front war themselves with large Japanese troop consentrations in their east, there had been clashes. Again, the German military was the 70's Pittsburg Steelers of their time.

Of course the most credit goes goes to the Soviet people, only a fool would argue otherwise.

If Stalin's detractors had worked within democratic centralism none of that would have come down and perhaps Trotsky or someone else might have replaced Stalin by normal means. As it was their intrigues started the whole affair.