Why was the regular Red Army defeated in a matter of weeks in the summer of 1941? Whose fault was it that we failed to defeat the enemy “with little blood and a mighty blow”? Why was it that until the very end of the war, our losses were many times higher than the German ones and we had to pay for every success with enormous blood, so that the Red Army was nicknamed “blood red”? Why was Victory achieved at such a high price? To all these questions, the most complex and painful in our history, there is a simple and clear answer, known even to Stalin: “Personnel decides everything!” This book irrefutably proves: it is in the personnel issue, in the low level of professional training of the Soviet generals and officer corps, that one should look for the causes of all the tragedies and disasters of the Great Patriotic War. Because personnel really decided everything!