No I said invading the Soviet Union in 1942 in the alternate reality.
Invading Russia is generally put in the strategy box marked Bad Ideas, invading in 1941 mind you minimised the bad ideas for a couple of reasons.
1: Frontier fortifications thanks to Stalin going for the Molotov-Ribbentrop we'll back stab each other later agreement the borders of the USSR moved west. Stalin being a dictator and not a general officer decided he needed to hold on to all this land and not use it against an invader as a trip so he decided to uproot the Soviets existing frontier fortifications and move them west.
In June 1941 the work is in the middle of being done by May 1942 it is likely mostly complete.
2: Headquarters staffs Stalin being a master of ruling in a state of political fear had decided to kill almost all the Red Army's senior commanders and their staffs.
3 Soviet marshals out of 5
13 of the 15 field army commanders
8 out of 9 fleet admirals and admirals grade I
50 of the 57 corps commanders
154 of the 186 divisional commanders
All 16 army level political commissars
25 of the 28 corps commisars
58 of the 64 divisional commissars
all 11 vice-commissars of defence
98 of the 108 members of the Supreme Military Soviet
Upwards of forty thousand officers permanently dismissed, imprisoned or shot.
In 1939 Stalin learned that the Army he had left was not that good and decided to allow reforms to go ahead, this was in part a cause of the organisational chaos afflicting Soviets arms in 1941, by 1942 officers will have had a whole extra year in order to find where all their soldiers and their kit are actually at and started on working out what they can do with it.
3: Economic, under various economic arrangements the Germans were importing an awful lot of their war materials as well as food from or via the USSR, knowing they were going to invade in 1941 they had deferred the majority of their payments for these goods until later that year...waiting until 1942 means handing over a lot of stuff to the Soviets or...not having the resources with which to invade the Soviets as they stop making deliveries.
Oh and welcome hope you keep going despite the baptism of fire, the only way you expose your unknown unknowns is to stumble across them and that gives you an opportunity to exchange them for knowledge
