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Thanks for that Captain, there are a number of good reads on the topic if one wants to delve further into it. That being said I do not see any scenario where the Soviet Union is defeated once they were able to redeploy the forces from the far east(October 1941, Battle of Moscow)

German losses are much higher then encountered in the previous battles from July 1941 going forward. The Russians also had some very capable military leaders, were tenacious fighters and Stalin had the sense to step aside.

One of my favourite books on the battle is Anthony Beevor’s The Fateful Siege. It covers the lead in to the battle that was a part of the German “Case Blue” plan of 1942.