Stalin led the Germans to Stalingrad

On this day 70 years ago - August 8, 1941 - Stalin was appointed supreme commander of all troops of the Workers ' and Peasants' Red Army and Navy.
You do not know what is there more surprising. Commander in Chief, it turns out, is it the fifth position of the top-level. Well, for a regime of personal power, like, logical and natural. Who else if not a. but.

Supreme Commander during the war - a job for a professional, for the military strategist. The person in this position should take concrete decisions, to whom and where to attack, and not in every war, occupied the post of Commander of the Heads of State. Thus, in the Civil Commander of the Red Army was not Lenin, and Joachim Vatsetis and Sergei Kamenev, who would have remembered about those?. However, it is useless to argue about Stalin's leadership talent. Apologists for the ... They can not convince even Marshal Zhukov, who in his memoirs clearly wrote that in 1942, ordered to take the offensive on all fronts, in the Crimea, under Kharkov and Rzhev on the Volkhov front, Stalin made ​​a strategic mistake again, which led the Germans . Oh, and the final stage of the Battle of Stalingrad, concentrating against the trapped and surrounded by six Army Paulus - clearly excessive force, five armies, Stalin effectively gave the Germans an opportunity to withdraw from the North Caucasus, the other two armies, and to avoid further large-scale environment. It is equally important that Stalin created a Commander of a vertical control the fighting, in which none of the commanders in place virtually at war. It's not about Stalin himself, he is just at the front was only twice, both times at the beginning of 1942, in anticipation of success... But representatives of the rates the same, Marshal Zhukov, always went to the troops. We sat in front of the headquarters. The commander of the front moving to control and adjust the commander, who in turn went to his best division, the divisional commander whose regiment turned out in the CP, the commander of the regiment to battalion CP. As a result, the life of the battalion commander on the front - just a month, a company commander - 10 days. Stalin fought a little blood only in words.