Effects of 1942 Brittish surrender?

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The initial stages of Barbarossa culled many of the incompetent Soviet generals. If they are still around by 1943, Soviet Union won't repel the alternative Barbarossa with ease.
Were they incompetent or just caught in a really bad situation and scapegoated for Stalin's failures?
 
Were they incompetent or just caught in a really bad situation and scapegoated for Stalin's failures?
Some were scapegoated, but there was certainly true incompetence. I know it's not much of a source, but the Soviet Storm series mentions poor decision-making by certain generals early in the war. One Pavlov is especially blamed, for the failures in Belarus.
 

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Some were scapegoated, but there was certainly true incompetence. I know it's not much of a source, but the Soviet Storm series mentions poor decision-making by certain generals early in the war. One Pavlov is especially blamed, for the failures in Belarus.
Yeah that specific situation was the one I was thinking of. Pavlov was presented with an awful situation that was more Stalin's doing than his own, I can't see how he can be blamed and his execution was scapegoating for that reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Pavlov_(general)
After his forces were heavily defeated within the first few days of the campaign, he was relieved of his command, arrested, charged with military incompetence and executed.[1] He was exonerated or, in Soviet parlance, rehabilitated in 1956.[1]

Also be careful of the Soviet Storm series, there were a lot of things presented that were off base at least. It is a Russian equivalent to a History Channel Documentary.
 
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