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Originally Posted by Sloniksp
While having numbers, the Russians were not fully mobilized. Constant shortages were quite evident. The Red Army was only in the process of re mobilizing. Officers being trained, new tanks being built, weapons being supplied and numbers being filled. Remember that when war broke out, many divisions were under manned by as much as 30-40 percent.
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The URSS was spending a larger fraction of their resources on military stuff in 1941 before the invasion than the germans were in 1939, before the war. However, the Russians didn't think they were unprepared at the time. In fact they thought the had the most powerfull armed forces in the world.