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Originally posted by Kai-Petri:
Also, if Stalin only wanted the buffer zone for Leningrad and was forced to take it why did the Red Army attack all along the front in Nov-Dec 1939?
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Because it is sensible, that's what you would do if you had the means and inclination and were in charge. One of my standard moves when playing Barbarossa with the Russians was a large paratroop drop (with what?) in Rovaniemi to shut off the entire north.
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