LAURENCE REES: And the single most mistaken decision of the war?
SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE: Hitler invading Russia was probably the colossal mistake. But I guess in terms of tactics, to divide his forces between Moscow, in the South and Leningrad - the division of forces - was a colossal mistake.
Most mistaken decision of WW2
Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Stalin’s pact with the Nazis
- Stalin and Marxist ideology
- Stalin’s support of the Nazis
- Initial Red Army failings
- Impact of German invasion of France
- Molotov and Soviet diplomacy
- German invasion of the Soviet Union
- Stalin himself
- Yalta
- Red Army atrocities
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