User blog comment:SupcommMonroee/What was the Most Decisive Battle?/@comment-4140619-20120509191641

Actually, Hitler was pretty smart...and downright brilliant...when it came to politics. But military, well he was only a corporal in WWI so you know, not the best tactical person. He should have listened to his advisors...

Also the assault on Stalingrad failed, due to Italy. Because Mussolini had to attack Greece..and fail and nearly be conquered. So Germany had to take over Greece, which pushed the assault into the USSR back by a month..so the Germans marched in to late, so they got into the Russian Winter. Now I know, your going to say, but the Russians held out longer than planned. Actually Germany had planned for that, but because of the month difference the plan failed.

Also, the size of the USSR is not important, because a huge part...was jsut a desolate area...which you wouldn't want/need to conquere. The most important cities ( i.e Stalingrad,Leningrad, Moscow etc.) were undersiege/conquered so yeah, the USSR, was quite close to lose as well.

Also, alone the USSR could not have won against Germany, they lacked the suffiecent technology. At that point there was no country on Earth that alone could have beaten Germany...

But otherwise I agree, probably the most decisive battle.