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It was very shitty but probably necessary action.
I mean the nazis ended up nearly taking Leningrad anyway. Seems like it would have been smarter for the Soviet’s to save all those resources for making a “buffer zone” and just build some big ass magonet line along the border.
They literally did, but due to close proximity to border, it was vulnerable. Nevertheless, it did played an important role in stopping Finnish offensive on Karelian Isthmus in 1941.
The Maginot Line, a famous story of success :-/
I guess the lesson here is that they had no good options.
I mean not a literal maginot line, but yeah know, I think beefing up defense maybe would have been a better strat than throwing so much into making all these buffers that the Nazis ended up blowing through in like a week.
