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German war plans simply assumed Russian armies moved slowly

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The entire strategic survival of an empire hinged on a terribly racist scheduling assumption. The infamous strategy entirely relied on the massive Russian military taking literal months to get out of bed and march to the border, but when the Russians actually mobilized fairly quickly, the entire meticulously timed master plan instantly fell apart.

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