In a question akin to the whole of the Stalingrad campaign it is simply impossible to assign faults or attributes and cover every aspect of the factors that combine to play out a scenerio like that. Hitting the highlights as done is fine but there are so many deep-seated and underlying ingredients at work in battles from any time and place. It becomes over simplistic to assign a singular person, or factor and say that it decided the outcome.

So when we question Russian tactics, poor German leadership, weather? It is probably "yes" to all the above but much more too.

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