As someone else mentioned, Moscow wasn't defenseless and they would never have successfully held any part of the city. IMHO he understood that even before the '

As someone else mentioned, Moscow wasn't defenseless and they would never have successfully held any part of the city. IMHO he understood that even before the 'march on moscow', the russian defense establishment was already plotting his demise and the dissolution of his private army, and he had no good solutions. This was a guy who would be looking out for radioactive milkshakes for the rest of his life no matter what.