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So I was playing Panzer Corps the other day, and when I won the first part of Operation Barbarossa with a decisive victory, it gave me the option of either skipping Kiev and going straight to Moscow, or conquering Kiev first and then taking Moscow. So I went with the former and went for Moscow, and I took the city. So, this brought the question.

Could the Germans have managed to do this in real life? A conquest of Moscow in late September, maybe?

Anyway, after this, if it isn't enough to make the Soviets surrender (and it probably isn't; Stalin seems prepared to do anything he can to push out the invaders), then the Germans swing down and take Kiev, encircling and destroying even more Soviets this time, if it's possible, while also having taken Leningrad early in July when it was more or less undefended, and, if after all this Stalin still doesn't stand down, they go for Stalingrad, which, due to German victories at Leningrad, Moscow, and Kiev, is likely to be much easier this time around.
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