> it becomes a battle between respective economies I tend to think of WW2 as the Civilization video game. If you have more "production" than the other players,

> it becomes a battle between respective economies I tend to think of WW2 as the Civilization video game. If you have more "production" than the other players, it's pretty easy to squash them like bugs. > Russia did an outstanding job There's an argument to make there, that if Russia was a democracy, it would have crumbled. It was Stalin's iron fist that moved resources where he needed them that reshaped the whole country into a lean mean fighting machine - at the cost of tremendous suffering, of course.