The End of the Soviet Union

The Russians were completely destroying it. And that is they just had, they just burned everything scorched earth all the way to Moscow. So by the time that was a very important and influential decision when he went into Moscow in August of 1941. He said I can, he could have taken Moscow there's no doubt about army group center Could have taken Moscow but didn't want to lose momentum on Eastern front. The longer he stayed in Moscow over winter then the harder it was going to be to get back home because they were they had no supply.