Comments on: The history we need to relearn

By: R John Jay

R John Jay — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:29:23 +0000

All Hail! And let’s thank the allies for fighting to defend Bolshevism. THANK YOU ALLIES!!!!! Because of you, Bolshevism is now taking over the world! Hoo-AWW!!!

By: SupremeCannon

SupremeCannon — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:43:19 +0000

There’s a YT channel ‘Military History Visualised’ which did a video on the possibility of the Soviet Union preparing to invade the Reich.

Lots of equipment on the western frontier, but readiness was abysmally low. No doubt Mr. Stalin’s HR policy initiatives of 1937-8 didn’t help matters.

The USSR being a vicious police state the Germans likely didn’t know all of that, although the Winter War certainly shone a spotlight. And pre-war tours of Soviet factories impressed them with the sheer scale of industrialization.

They were near, and the Middle East was far. I think that clinched it for them.

By: furor kek tonicus ( don't be part of the problem. be the WHOLE problem. )

furor kek tonicus ( don't be part of the problem. be the WHOLE problem. ) — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:25:54 +0000

dying rarely has much to do with winning. as the defenders of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Dresden will attest.
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so far as production is concerned, the numbers are the numbers. Russia out produced Germany, well and good. prior to the war, Russia and Germany were approximately equal in productive capacity. while the majority of the Russian population is in the west, there is no small part of it which ranges from southern Russia to the Pacific Ocean, most of which was never seriously threatened ( the Germans never got to Moscow ). ALL of German productive capacity was subject to constant bombing and all German lines of supply were subject to interdiction to one degree or another.
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whereas Russia received a LOT of supply and aid from the US in order to keep their manufacturing plants humming along.
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this is not to say that Russia/Ukraine did not suffer under the German invasion, they did. Mein Kreig is an excellent retrospective on the Eastern Front from the German perspective.