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locknitpickertoday at 5:54 AM0 repliesview on HN

> Besides, they mostly lost because they spend all their manpower and material on pointless incursions far away from their country.

If I'm not mistaken, one of the factors behind their Eastern Front collapsing was how their tanks suffered major design flaws, from failing to start in cold weather and their electrical components being vulnerable to rodents.

Also, their inability to mass produce their tanks is a critical design flaw.