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Why did Germany lose to the Soviet Union?

In World War II, Germany lost to the Soviet Union mainly because of its lack of strength.

Before the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, the national strength of the Soviet Union had jumped to the second place in the world as a whole, with more manpower than Germany, a vast territory and a broad strategic depth. With the material assistance of the United States and other countries, its weapon manufacturing system is suitable for large-scale wars. The unity of ideology has stimulated the internal centripetal force of the Russian nation and made it more United than tsarist Russia.

Germany is fighting on many fronts at the same time, which is a taboo for military strategists. Almost at the same time, it is the enemy of the most developed countries in the world. Its weapons are advanced, but its manufacture is complicated. Fortunately, it did not fully mobilize the industrial system at first, the economic integration in the occupied areas was weak, and there were more mistakes in war command than in the Soviet Union. Especially at the beginning of the war, we did not fully seize the opportunity, dragged into a protracted war, and gradually lost the political initiative.

The Soviet-German war is an important part of the world anti-fascist war. 194 1 On June 22nd, Nazi Germany violated the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty (Molotov-ribbentrop Treaty) and made a plan code-named "Barbarossa" with its servant countries (Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland). Three group armies * * * 190 divisions, 3,700 tanks, 4,900 planes, 47,000 cannons, 190 warships and 5.5 million people were dispatched. With the support of aviation, the soldiers raided the Soviet Union in three ways, and the Soviet-German war broke out in an all-round way.

At the beginning of the war, due to the strategic misjudgment of the Soviet war decision-makers and the low quality of the Soviet Red Army officers and men after the "big purge", the Soviet Red Army was defeated, and the German army was invincible with its local military superiority and relatively advanced tactics, reaching an average of 600 kilometers deep into the Soviet Union. Until the Battle of Stalingrad, the German attack was frustrated. Subsequently, the two sides fell into a stalemate and won and lost each other. The Soviet Red Army gradually stabilized the war situation by virtue of its human and material advantages. 1943 At the end of August, the Soviet Union defeated the German offensive in the Battle of Kursk. Since then, the Soviet Union has entered the stage of strategic counterattack, and finally1April 30, 945 captured the German capital Berlin. 1On the night of May 8, 945, Germany held an unconditional surrender ceremony.