shit it ' s early in the morning for me , didn ' t have time to wake up properly . ooos . . silly sausage indeed <| sep |> The USSR victory of Nazi Germany had more to do with Germany ' s failures than Soviet military success . Some quick pointers 1 . The Soviet war machine out produced the Nazi War machine . They could build and replace almost every better and faster . However much of this has to do with the fact that Germany ' s resources were tied up fighting the other allies , managing the holocaust and managing the great air war that devastated Germany manufacturing . This gave the Soviets Leverage of Nazi Germany . 2 . The Soviet Union HAD to defeat Nazi Germany , had they came to an armacist or short term peace settlement this would have been simply a pause in a perpetual conflict . Stalin and the rest of the communists knew that the security of the USSR depended on defeating Hitler in absolute . 3 . Nazi Strategies in defeating the USSR had too many objectives to achieve in a short period of time . When the Moscow offensive stalled the Nazi ' s decided to swing south to capture Baku and were forced into Stalingrad . The Germans were ill equipped to take on another objective After Moscow , with a reinforced Soviet Army failure was immenent . What the Germans should have done after the failure of Moscow was consolidate their gains and begin a more defensive strategy until the time was right for another offensive . 4 . The Nazi air force was neutralized in the USSR . What had afforded the Nazis so many early victories was their effective use of fighters and bombers . On the Eastern Front Germany needed not only fighters but long range bombers to reach the Ural factories , there was no long range Nazi bomber and this was never realized .