What shoudl a sane Soviet leadership have done in 1939

*especially* maintaining that in 1940/1 when they've shown that what they do tactically can certainly be done operationally.

Nitpick: Stalin was in the process of trying to fix that when the Germans invaded. Although he had not fully come around to the idea, the Soviets were in the process of switching around and reforming back towards Deep Operations. In hindsight, its rather obvious he should have started much earlier instead of wait until the Germans managed to overrun France.

Even the the Soviets could have done better if Stalin had just accepted his gamble had failed in May or June of '41. Looking at his actions in that period, its quite clear the man was in denial: he was aware that his attempt to buy time for the USSR had failed, but refused to accept it and clung onto the idea that Hitler was just pressuring out concessions.
 
Nitpick: Stalin was in the process of trying to fix that when the Germans invaded. Although he had not fully come around to the idea, the Soviets were in the process of switching around and reforming back towards Deep Operations. In hindsight, its rather obvious he should have started much earlier instead of wait until the Germans managed to overrun France.

Even the the Soviets could have done better if Stalin had just accepted his gamble had failed in May or June of '41. Looking at his actions in that period, its quite clear the man was in denial: he was aware that his attempt to buy time for the USSR had failed, but refused to accept it and clung onto the idea that Hitler was just pressuring out concessions.

I realize this but at the same time the USSR's high command did not attribute the German victory over France in 1940 to use of massed armor and the process of rehabilitating those doctrines was very tardy. It didn't help matters that the belated mobilization meant Soviet units spent the entire war understrength (leading to the strange irony that the losing side of the war had each individual unit larger than the individual units of the winning side, despite the winning side's overall larger numbers).
 
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