Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS
If I were in your position, I'd pull back the southern group straight south towards the Crimea and establish a line along the Dnepr to Melitopol.

At the same time strip the north and center using all available rail- forget evacuating factories, and launch a full-scale counteroffensive southwest of Kursk while he is in the open and before he can dig in.  Push towards the Dnepr between Sumy and Kiev.  Use your APs on Guards Rifle Corps, that will give you the biggest bang for the buck.  Push hard and your numbers should be able to prevail.

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ORIGINAL: Flapdrol
I see corps in Lapland, stacked frontlines in the North and Center, an entire pink Front NW of Velikiye Luki which is having a holiday as 90% is in reserve: all in at least 2 million troops that can be used to stop this. It is clear that all of his offensive power is in the south, yet you are maintaining enormous reserves up north. 

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins
Remember, he can't be strong everywhere. Don't let him get away with determining the strategic initiative across the entire map. Where you don't have contact with his lines, make contact and find his weak spot, then push hard. While you need to withdraw when he breaks through, you can also make efforts to put pressure on the flanks of his drive to keep him from feeling secure. More Rifle Corps would be a very good thing for you. If you don't have a reserve army or two, start making them, you should always try to have some reserves.

The best time to counter-attack is definitely while he's still on the move, before he can fortify. Don't let him cut off and destroy the forces you've withdrawn towards the Crimea. Those can serve a very good purpose in extending his front lines if you manage to fortify them there. You should already have the main entrances to the Crimea fortified, I don't see anyone there right now.

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ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS
Now's the time to be bold.  Pull every single guards rifle division and rifle corps out of the line which is north of Kursk, rail them south and throw them into the attack. Seriously, gathering over 50 rifle divisions and hammering a frontal area of 80-100 miles is not out of your capability.  Pour in the cavalry and tank units to exploit.  Keep attacking and bleed those German divisions white.

And don't forget to have support units attached to all your corps.