Clancy named a bunch of guys from many of his books after WW2 generals, as far as I know. There's Putin too, in Hunt for Red October.Also, always nice to see a Golovko. I keep thinking that it's Tom Clancy's character Golovko's father or other male relative.
You're acting very passively on the front, from what I can see. When you only met 2 divisons, you should've rushed right past (leaving several divisions for the encirclement behind, of course) and kept advancing as far as you could in the north. You, for some reason, seemed to simply stop the advance, not even trying to break through their lines from the get-go. It's almost as if you're too careful. Why? The Axis aren't exactly in a position to attack you.
I do suspect that he felt that it'd be useless to attack the Axis behind a river. It is also dangerous to try and encircle them at that point because that would mean leaving the protective river behind and venturing into a potential trap. Look at the battles when he actually attacked that single tank division, that should give you an idea about how much better the Axis troops are at this point. The lack of activity in the west also indicated that the Axis would show up in force soon, so his lack of agressiveness was well reasoned.
Still, I do expect the Axis to fall relatively quickly and I am somewhat disappointed about the lack of rules against the flying circus.
Very surprising that Germany put themselves in the position to allow the DoW from the USSR, since I know that the USSR can wipe the floor with Germany if you attack right off in the 1936 scenario, despite all of Germany's advantages. I presume it isn't too different in the 1938 scenario. I hope when the AAR concludes we will find out from the Axis players what advantage they hoped to wring from this.
I'm also in agreement with the others who think the USSR's response has been too timid. There are all kinds of possibilities that don't seem to have been explored- for instance, we could be seeing Soviet naval invasions behind the lines in places like Denmark. If the Kriegsmarine dares to show its face and challenge the landings, then the Royal Navy or Air Force can pop up and deal with them (if the USSR can't unblock the Kattegat, then the UK can just send in CAGs). or, even easier, they could just start sniping at Italy, again supported by the Royal Navy.
Because SOV divisions are so much weaker than GER ones naval invasions behind enemy lines and trying to encircle their units is pretty much always a BAD idea. It's just so much more likely that your units all get wiped out instead of doing any good.