The reasons are very complicated. Stalin's wrong judgments, which resulted in the front-line troops being unprepared at all, and the Soviet army's tactical and unrestrained tactics. Of course, one of the most important factors is the lack of experienced officers in the Soviet Uni

In World War II , why did the Soviet Union suffer such great losses in the early stages of the war? The reasons are very complicated. There are Stalin's wrong judgments, which lead to the front-line troops being unprepared at all, and the Soviet army's tactical and unrestrained tactics. Of course, one of the most important factors is the lack of experienced officers in the Soviet Union.

Bapulov, who was favored by him, is Dmitry Gligorievic Bapurov. Before the outbreak of World War II , he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Western Front by Stalin in 1940.

The defensive zone of the Western Front can be said to be one of the most important areas of the Soviet Union. It guarded the entire Belarus . Once it was broken through, the enemy could drive straight in and go straight through Minsk -Smolensk line to Moscow .

Stalincoln handed over this important front to Bapurov naturally had high hopes for him, but history shows us that Stalin saw the wrong person and was also very wrong. Paplov on the battlefield is not as good as a pig.

The strange front commander

After Germany took France in 1940, because of the failure of the " Sea Lion Plan ", Hitler secretly turned his attention to the Soviet Union in the East. Not only did he frequently send reconnaissance aircraft to explore, but he also mobilized a large number of troops to Polish and Romanian .

But with such an obvious move, Bapurov, as the commander of the front-line army, selectively ignored it. He firmly did not believe that Germany would attack the Soviet Union.

Paplov is also hard to describe in terms of military governance. Paplov is a very special person, which is fully reflected in leading the army. It requires the troops to pile up all the excess weapons and equipment in the warehouse to prevent weapons from wear.

This caused many Soviet troops to have no weapons after the war, or they were no longer in the air while shooting, which caused disastrous consequences to the entire Western Front.

Not only that, Bapurov was also very disdainful of armored forces . Originally, there were six mechanized armies in the western military region, but under the spoils of Bapurov, the configuration of these six armored army was extremely uneven. The large one had a tank army with a number of tanks, and the small one had only one tank regiment, and the rest of the tanks were piled in the warehouse to eat dust.

The Western Front Army's strength under the governance of Paplov, and was completely wiped out by Zhukov in the Biavestok military exercise in 1941. Such a miserable result did not change Paplov at all. He still did his own way.

Germany invaded the Soviet Union

On June 22, 1941, Germany tore up the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty, and 5.5 million troops were divided into three groups to press towards the Soviet Union. The Western Front, the most unfortunate, encountered the most elite Central Army Group in Germany.

In fact, if Paplov wants to temporarily block the German attack, it is very simple. He is nothing more than ordering his troops to enter the fortress area to resist the German attack. In order to prevent German invasion, the Soviet Union had built a large number of solid fortifications in the border area.

But Bapurov just didn't play according to common sense. He believed that the German army would definitely attack from the Biavestok area, and then he put all the three armies and six mechanized armies in his hands into here. You should know who the German army opposite were? Guderian , Hot and Boke , none of them are easy to mess with.

Bok immediately ordered Guderian and Hot's armored cluster to attack the Soviet army from the north and south. Bapurov's actions were undoubtedly to feed the meat buns directly into the mouth of the dog. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops were eliminated inexplicably.

When he learned that the front-line troops had collapsed, Bapurov quickly ran from Minsk's headquarters to the headquarters of the 13th Army. However, this caused a lot of damage to the soldiers on the front line. Because of his sudden departure, he caused serious command chaos, and the entire Western Front fell into a command vacuum stage.

When Stalin sent Zhukov to the front line to understand the situation on June 25, the entire Western Front was already in a bad situation. The German armored troops kept interspersing and surrounding, and the soldiers could not find their superiors, and the commanders could not find their own troops. quietly, Germany had formed a huge encirclement in the Biavestok-Minsk region.

. After giving orders to break through each unit, Bapurov directly took a plane to Smolensk. The Western Front also suffered a devastating blow. More than 700,000 people ran out, and more than 200,000 people were annihilated in the Minsk region.

The German army achieved such brilliant results in less than a week. The one they should be most grateful to was Paplov. If it weren't for his "exciting command", the German army would definitely have fought hard.

Paplov's fate was also very miserable, and he was ordered to be shot dead by Stalin in July. It can be said that Paplov is a typical representative of his own crime and cannot survive. He has played a good handful of cards.