Dnipir Plan

The plan to station the largest portion of the Red Army behind the Dnipir River as a reserve force could have saved Russia from Germany. However, would Hitler have been so quick to attack if the German Intel had known how vast the Army really was? If they had been positioned closer to the border, its possible that Stalin's efforts to buy time may have delayed the attack. However, Hitler's confidence that the German attack would undermine the communist control - leading to a mass revolt - may have still led to an invasion, and possibly a quick German victory if the reserve had not existed, and the German Panzer divisions had been able to attack the majority of the Soviet troops at the start of the campaign.