While the battle of the Somme didn't obtain any of the objectives set out, cost the British many men 57,000 wounded just under 20,000 dead on day 1, and they only secured a few miles. It was actually the polar opposite of failure. The entire point of the battle was to take pressure off the French at Verdun, while the British paid heavily spilling anglo blood for their Frank brethren the German's also suffered heavily. Costing reserves from Verdun to be pulled and put into the Somme. Thus the French forces strengthened and regrouped changed the tide completely in the Verdun sector. Trench warfare was certainly hell, it was attrition. How much flesh can you commit, how much steel can you produce and shells. The German's broke first. They came back to sanity quicker. The British will happily wait it out, firing all large guns. We see the same playout during D-Day. A rather effective method that sent the German's on the receiving end to their insanity.
You know, the fact that Sabaton re-released all the old stuff because something something nobody knows about it and there are so many new, official videos that still haven't cracked the numbers on the good ol' Piscator videos speaks volumes to me on how much Sabaton should've just promoted these videos instead.
Херня. Есть нормальные клипы от пользователей с хрониками ВМВ. Особенно автор обосрался с gott mit uns, нет white dead. Привет из России. Европа будет белой! 88!
About a hundred years later, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was erased from the world map by the Germans (Austria, Prussia) and Catherine (German Tsarina of Russia) in cooperation with the little hats ✡️ and corrupt magnates. And to make things funnier, the Ottoman Empire did not recognize the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and many Poles found refuge in the Ottoman Empire.
The penal battalions this song is about were mainly made up by rapists, drunks and deserters. The description of this video tries to say this by hiding it under "disciplinary problems". These soldiers were dishonorable and this song completely fails to portray this and portrays them as misjudged heroes by a tyrannic regime, "Answered the call united we stood" Deserters did not. "You dare to be my judge but seem to forget, my blood is red as yours was spilt on this land" Doesn't mean you can rape, drink systematically becoming a liability to your fellow soldiers or chain of command and/or desert your post out of fear for the germans. And BTW to anyone who might mention it, desertion in this case is a crime and dishonorable, these men did not desert because they didn't wanna fight, if the germans won they would systematically genocide the slavic people in the region and send germans to populate it, search Lebensraum if you dont know what im saying. Hence whoever decided to desert their post basically ditched their fellow soldiers,friends,parents, as well as women and children who were in cities already occupied by germans, left them to die to save their own skin/family. It was not a war of dominance between two powers, it was a war where if the USSR lost, all non-germans would be eliminated or made slaves, desertion was not a choice.
Completely inaccurate generalization of penal battalions dude, they pulled people from all different kinds of labor camps too including some of the 2.8 million imprisoned political prisoners. And you can't even know if the people in those battalions actually committed those crimes or not considering you likely had no fair trial before being convicted. If you were even suspected of having an "unwillingness to fight" you could be stripped of rank and sent to a penal unit. They had every right to fear the literal death sentence they had in store for them, they were used as fodder even more than regular soviet troops. So yes, the ones that chose to face their death and cleanse their sins in blood do deserve the respect they got.
Slavs were already slaves to a brutal regeime. The USSR was a tyranical empire. See; holodomor, great purge, siberian death camps, expulsion of jews post ww2, order 227 itself.
