> The USSR was very nearly defeated by the Germans, It's actually not that simple. Germans were very close to capturing Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, but the in

> The USSR was very nearly defeated by the Germans, It's actually not that simple. Germans were very close to capturing Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, but the industry had been evacuated to remote locations which would have allowed them to keep on fighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_evacuations#Industrial_evacuations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_evacuatio... Of course, Hitler with resources of European part of USSR and especially oil fields of Caucasus would have been much more formidable enemy but he was still quite far away from complete victory over USSR.