Yes, it was about the (massive) state bureaucratic apparatus too.
But Stalin introduced elements of Russian patriotism only after the German invasion (for pragmatic reasons) - that wasn't by any means nationalism.
The Soviet Union was an imperialistic country, but it was said only temporarily, till the final victory of socialism, solely for the greater good of humanity.

It wasn't about nationalism but about the world revolution now, or a delayed and gradual one.

Google: "socialism in a single country"

Wasn't the USSR a socialist state and its ideology purely international?

Actually, the communists always condemned nationalism - basically from day one.

why bother?

I run a small ISP in Poland. There is no censorship, except the ban on unregistered gambling sites. Actually, I'm not sure it exists anymore; I don't do it.

A new report by consulting giant McKinsey finds that Germany's Energiewende, or energy transition to renewables, poses a significant threat to the nation's economy and energy supply.
One of Germany's largest newspapers, Die Welt, summarized the findings of the McKinsey report in a single word: "disastrous."

But McKinsey issues its strongest warning when it comes to Germany's increasingly insecure energy supply due to its heavy reliance on intermittent solar and wind. For three days in June 2019, the electricity grid came close to black-outs.

"Only short-term imports from neighboring countries were able to stabilize the grid," the consultancy notes.

"isnt it a heck of a lot easier to enforce a court order if everyone is wearing a tracking device, that anyone can see and report?" You first, with that tracking device. Obviously you need it. In the EU tracking without your permission is a crime.

"A 2013 study in The Lancet found that 41% of men on Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, reported having raped a non-partner, while 14.1% reported having committed gang rape. According to UNICEF, nearly half of reported rape victims are under 15 years of age and 13% are under 7 years of age."

"the 498th Tactical Missile Group in December 1961 took up positions in semi-hardened sites on Okinawa"
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"The unit was inactivated on 8 July 1969, and the missiles returned to the United States and were expended as full-size target drones."
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It was like that in the communist countries too. Jammers were working all the time, but radios with full shortwave bands, precision tuning, double/triple conversion were cheap and freely available making the jamming ineffective.

The difficulty is right here, from that link:

In January, Seoul city started offering rewards of up to 1 million won (£608) for people who reported private or rented car drivers providing transport through Uber.

In December, South Korean prosecutors indicted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and the company's South Korean unit for violating transport rules which require drivers and vehicles used in taxi services to be licensed.

No, they couldn't. The V2 was't design for delivering gas.
It's warhead detonated on impact. Its a very inefficient method of delivery, because most of the gas would bury into ground at supersonic speed.

Anyway 3172 rockets was an equivalent of a single large scale bombing mission over Germany done with Lancasters.

It's a myth. Hitler killed millions of people with gas.

He had them, but the Allies had much more. He didn't use it, because they would hold all the cards in a gas war.

For example, the horse-drawn transport in the German Army was extremely vulnerable to gas, the Western Allies were riding on trucks.

Hitler had no defective means of delivery those weapons, but the Allies hold air supremacy over Germany - at a moment's notice they could have drenched the German Army, the cities in gas, and the countryside in anthrax.

http://srsroccoreport.com/germ... :
Since the introduction of the Renewable Energy law in 2000 aimed at replacing coal and gas-fired as well as nuclear power generation by so-called renewable energy sources, the household price for electricity has jumped by more than 200%. German customers now pay the second-highest electricity prices in Europe. At the same time, the task of stabilizing the grid against the massive erratic influx from solar and wind power plants that produce without regard for actual need has pushed the operators to their limits.

One of the major problems with wind and solar is that the projects aren't commercially viable without huge Govt subsidies including long-term contracts by energy utilities to pay 2-4 times the going wholesale electric rate for solar and wind generated power.

I think it is not quite right. Paris was declared an open city because its defence wasn't possible. The French government relocated to Bordeaux and continued the fight from there.

Germans were assisted in those catastrophic strategic defeats by lots of luck.
There were moments all the nazi nonsense could have been sent straight to hell. But the luck was with them.