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The Germans failed to account for the harsh Winter conditions for which the common soldier was not properly equipped . The Germans lost any mobility that they had had by being involved in house to house fighting within the streets of Stalingrad . The Luftwaffe was not prepared or capable of providing the supplies needed for the Sixth Army once the army was surrounded and subsequently annihilated by the surrounding Russian armies .

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Stalin believed that his armies sheer numbers would make up for that plus in the years before the war Stalin had purged the officer corps of so called "traitors" so the army lacked a lot of leadership skills.

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In August 1939, the U.S.S.R. and Germany signed a non-aggression treaty agreeing not to attack each other, nor to ally with or provide aid to an enemy of the other party. (This treaty or pact is generally called the Hitler-Stalin Pact after the leaders of the two countries or the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact after their foreign ministers.) Russia did not expect a surprise attack by Nazi Germany breaking the treaty less than two years after it was signed, and so it was unprepared for Hitler's invasion.

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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, named after the Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and the German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, was an agreement officially titled the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union and signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939. It was a non-aggression pact under which the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany each pledged to remain neutral in the event that either nation were attacked by a third party. It remained in effect until 22 June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

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Even though it had the largest army in the world , its troops were neither well equipped nor well trained.

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Because the soviet union were allies with Germany and didn't expect Germany to attack them.

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