This isn't about disagreeing with an opinion. “Weeks away from victory” was in quotes.
@Hoodat I can see where “Weeks away from victory” might have made sense to a civilian who had never really studied OR understood the "Soviet Police State System".
Unlike nations and national leaders in the west,the Soviets are a police state that not only do NOT answer to public opinion,but who imprison or even execute any of their serfs who would dare to question the leadership OR the system.
This is understandably hard for someone who has never seriously studied the Soviet System or their history. Or the history of any police state,AFATG. They have a tendency to dig in and keep fighting,even if it is their own people they are fighting because there IS no such thing as "life after surrender/defeat" for the leadership of ANY police state. ALL their money and power gets taken away,and then IF they are not put into prison and executed for crimes they ordered,they tend to spend the rest of their short lives on the run because they really have no place to go. After all,no other police state leader wants a fellow failed police state leader holed up in HIS police state because it MIGHT give his subordinates "ideas" about their own position and security.
Remember,these "socialist police states" ALL operate on fear,and this fear begins at the top and is as powerful at the bottom as it is at the top because NO ONE is allowed to live free and without fear. Fear is the "gasoline" that powers them.
The difference between the fear of those at the top and those at the bottom is a military and police that exists to protect the leadership and the "state". PLEASE note that in the case of a dictatorship like all Communist systems,the "state" is really a bureaucracy that exists to protect the leadership and itself,PERIOD.
The "worker bees" under their complete control ONLY exist to serve the "state",and by extension,the people who run the "state".
I know that most people in free nations have at one point been told this,but since THEY are generally safe from being afflicted with this themselves,they tend to forget,or even dismiss any truths they have been told because they either don't believe it because THEY haven't experienced it,or they lust after all the alleged "free stuff" they have been told the Communist leaders supply to all their people.
And.....,if you have grown up and lived in the west all your life and never been personally exposed "face to face" with the reality of Communism,the reality of it CAN be hard for the typical westerner to believe.