Re: Rope-a-dope Archived Message Posted by Keith-264 on November 7, 2023, 1:52 pm, in reply to "Rope-a-dope" the Soviet battles around Moscow and Stalingrad during the Second World War employed the rope-a-dope approach No, the Red Army fought hard to keep control of western Russia and failed. It was the strategic fatuity of German war aims, after the failure in the west in 1940 that drove them to invade the USSR in 1941 and fail again. The revival of the Red Army in late 1941 and late 1942 was due to the strategic depth of the Soviet war economy, the willingness to fight of ordinary soldiers, the power of the Soviet regime and some British and US tanks. Message Thread: Rope-a-dope - Keith-264 November 7, 2023, 1:36 pm Re: Rope-a-dope - Keith-264 November 7, 2023, 1:52 pm Re: Rope-a-dope - Keith-264 November 7, 2023, 1:54 pm   Searching