roblem. Anybody who lives in Moscow or St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) knows it's going to get cold. Anyone who ever sees the defense of those cities as desirable is therefore going to properly equip their troops for the cold - which the Soviets did. The result was that the Soviets were able to use the winter to harass the Germans at every opportunity, and the Germans spent the entire winter over-extended and on the back foot.