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SW Saskatchewan | Look at the Taiga (boreal forest) alongside- still what you would travel on for resource or forestry roads once you get beyond the farmland of western Canada- not permafrost by a long shot but still the kind of country where it is cost effective to let a unit sit until the dry spell or frost comes.
This is the reason the mines of northern sask are supplied by air from Saskatoon- a lot more dependable than prairie clay.
But as NVDave has pointed out, it stopped the wehrmacht, and it also stopped Napoleon's Grand Armee. While the Russki's were busy building their tank fleet for use on the North Geman plain, they also were cognizant of the fact that the great dismal swamp of Northern Russia would swallow up any similiar Nato attempt to take Moscow.
And after the cold war, The US is left with the Eisenhower highway system, the USSR with the rusting hulks of a bunch of obsolete tanks.
I think there is a message there.
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Take a look at travel on a Russian Interstate
