Special Operation Range

  • mkwt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m just repeating what happened or what the plan was the last couple of go arounds, with Napoleon and Hitler.

    Napoleon did occupy Moscow, but it didn’t help him very much.

    Hitler was turned back just short of Moscow, but the Russian government had all sorts of continuity plans that involved moving further east. Entire factories were uprooted and shipped into the Urals.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Napoleon did occupy Moscow, but it didn’t help him very much.

      Because he was trying to wait for the Tsar’s peace negotiations. Not because taking Moscow wasn’t a major victory. The issue is that Napoleon had no intention of pursuing the war any further, but the Tsar was not willing to give up at the point they were at, because the Tsar realized that Napoleon wanted a quick surrender, not a chase across the Asian steppes.