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hitler could have made the urals, stalin made so many military blunders in the 30's purges, if tukachevsky had lived then the war could have ended in '43. Stalin was - apart from being a tyrant - as bad a military tactician as hitler, if moscow had fallen in '41 then he would have probably sacked Zhukov, leaving the ussr without its best living general.

i disagree, it was unlikely to work, but could have.

nope, you seem to hold the view that the USSR would always triumph, it wouldnt. Stalin very nearly lost the war in '41 and '42, if Germany had been able to fight the war on a single front then they would have had the resources to take the caucusus and stallingrad in '43.