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So marching an army hundreds of miles across frozen hostile territory is a pretty dumb idea. Granted. My question though, revolves around the fact that from 1700 onward there seems to be this consensus that any land invasion of Russia is doomed to failure if it moves more then a few miles from the Black Sea coast. Is that necessarily fair? Is a successful land invasion of Russia possible for Napoleon? Any other power?

Partly because I am curious, and partly because I'm working on a TL and one of the significant changes is Napoleon times his campaign better and follows the Baltic coast to St. Petersburg rather than head for Moscow. Does he have the proverbial snowball's chance in Hell? Is it remotely possible? Or do we tend to give General Winter more credit than he is due?
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