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ORIGINAL: Farfarer

Oh hell yeah keep them isolated so they don't come back for free, if you are not paying a steep operational price for so doing. You can mop up with 2nd and 3rd line units much later. Equally important, you want to starve to death all the population centres which you have isolated, so that the people are gone from the game forever and do not relocate to the Urals when you finally move in. For Lvov and Leningrad pockets (well all isolated pop centres I imagine ) this means at least 8 turns of unbroken isolation. Very difficult but just think if you can similarly remove Moscow, Kharkov and Krasnodor etc. from ever contributing effectively for the remainder of the game ! Now if the game let the Axis rebuild or repurpose Russian factory cities or left-behind infrastructure I might have a use for the cities and their virtual denizens...