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I mean higher Soviet combat casualties too. At the expense of the (enormous) number captured.

If they were uniformly organized and serious, it would have been multiple times higher. I venture this is mostly artillery, people cornered and not wanting to die, and the units that had their shit together.

IIRC, it was as late as 43 or 44, after it was clear the Germans were losing, an entire central Asian brigade attempted to defect across the lines (was detected and put down) They really could have taken advantage of discontent.

Easy PODs: 1. Strike Leningrad with no delays for people getting nervous. L-Grad fallen, except for holdouts, in August is doable without making other sectors suffer. This probably leads to greater Finnish involvement and Murmansk cut-off. This also frees up a LOT of troops for Moscow. Team...