So, what happened to those mech corps in 1941? Basically not only you mix up strategic and operational levels here, but also completely misunderstood the whole point I was making. Which was that on strategic level, due to the "1941 Barbarossa" syndrome Soviet leadership had, Soviets would pre empt an agression against the Soviet Union or it's allies.
Post 1988 this changed to a strategic "defensive" stance, which lead to changes in OOBs (of individual units and formations) and the Group of Forces (various) composition/deployement, as well as a number of other things.
Sorry for the offtopic.
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