# tangent squared: invading Russia *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 14 Aug 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Spectacled Bear *14 Aug 2001, 14:13* > At 01:44 2001-08-12, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote: > the stupidity of invading Russia I heard recently that not only did far more of the German high command agree with this beforehand than would admit to it afterwards, but that it nearly succeeded. A getaway train was prepared and waiting for Stalin at Moscow station, and if he had turned up and escaped on it, Russia would have fallen. Connoisseurs of pivotal moments might like to add this one to their collection. Anyone know anything more about it? Spectacled Bear. ---