My great-grandfather was a foreman in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. He defended Leningrad, fought against the Germans and Finns on the Volchov front, and at the end of 1944 his division was transferred to Poland to participate in the Vistula-Oder operation. He went through the whole war, but died very absurdly - on May 13, 1945, his company was clearing an airfield in Czechoslovakia from the last fighting Nazis, and before surrendering, the Germans left barrels of methyl alcohol there. After the fight, they found them and drank them, as a result, everyone, including my great-grandfather, died of poisoning.
In 1942 all of Ukraine was "free and independent" until 1943 when the Soviets launched their "unprovoked" invasion of Ukraine, and it took them a couple of years to fight in Ukraine, as the Soviets were using "human wave" meat assaults, fighting with shovels and washing machines. Funny how history repeats itself!
English Wikipedia address "Nazi racial theories" =Ukrainians= The Reichskommissar in Reichskommissariat Ukraine Erich Koch publicly declared the Ukrainians to be racially inferior and forbade subordinates from having any social contact with Ukrainians.[205] Koch also publicly referred to the Ukrainians as "niggers".[206] Koch on 5 March 1943 said: We are a master race, which must remember that the lowliest German worker is racially and biologically a thousand times more valuable than the population here.[208] Hungarian Wikipedia address "A magyar megszálló csapatok a Szovjetunióban. Levéltári dokumentumok 1941-1947" In addition to the Germans and Hungarians, Romanians, Italians, Finns, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians took part in this activity, which resulted in the most extensive genocide in world history, claiming the most victims, and in which a total of 13.7 million civilians perished. German and Hungarian punishment squads killed approximately 103,000 civilians and 24,000 prisoners of war in just one administrative area of Ukraine, the Chernihiv region.
The Russians won the war by luck. The German Army was the best in the world and technically advanced. One German soldier could handle about 30 Russian soldiers at a go. The German Army had already won the war were it not for the winter.
Your words? = "The German Army had already won the war were it not for the winter." English Wikipedia address "Operation Barbarossa" =Aftermath= Attempting to explain matters, Hitler issued Führer Directive No. 39, which cited the early onset of winter and the severe cold as the primary reasons for the failed campaign,[328] whereas the main reasons were German military unpreparedness, poor intelligence of actual Soviet strength, extensive logistical difficulties, high levels of attrition and heavy casualties, and overextension of German forces within the vast Soviet territories.[329] ( Most likely you have the same funny mustache as Hitler. )
@@user-qt1cp1be3u in 1941, Leningrad was besieged, Ukraine had fallen into the German hands. The Germans captured 600,000+ Soviet prisoners in the Battle for Kyeiv (The largest single victory in military history) By late September, the German Army was advancing brilliantly towards Moscow. Guderian was just some miles from capturing Moscow.....and then winter came and halted the advance. The Soviets took this chance and counter-attacked by luck. The Red Army was no match for the superior German Army. The German Army was the best in the world.
@@SeniorNgugi41-qw4bl Your words? = "Guderian was just some miles from capturing Moscow.....and then winter came and halted the advance." The magnificent German army assumed that as soon as autumn ends in Russia, summer begins??? But this time an anomaly occurred and winter came in Russia after the end of autumn??? Horrible!
@@user-qt1cp1be3u Operation Barbarossa was all about winning the war against Russia before October 1941, before winter. If this failed, then the war was lost. Even if the German offensive resumed in summer of 1942, all had already been lost due to the 1941 winter. If there had not been any winter in Russia in 1941, then the German Army would have won the war. In summer 1942, the war had turned against Germany and the United States also joined the war to help the weak Red Army.
@@user-qt1cp1be3uThe 1941 winter defeated Germany and NOT the weak Red Army. Finland alone in 1940 defeated the Red Army. Stalin had to send a more forces in numbers to win. The Red Army was no match for the superior German Army. Germany lost the war due to the 1941 winter and also the entry of America in the war.
The downfall of Germany. Despite economic recovery, the german society and cultural heritage will no longer exist in a few decades. Adieu schönes Deutschland.
Westernrs be like : lets see what these soviets are doing. Let them cook 3 years later: oh they arw liberating they almost liberated their land ans starting advancing in europe? Get in get in get in !
What's funny is that if Hitler had won due to all the different cultures and languages could not have created a huge Germany. In a best case scenario he would have created some kind of European Union. For which as we know today he would not have needed to use force at all.
The war that people thought is gonna end up with the whole world speaking German and Japanese actually ended with the sky speaking American and Russian
Seeing how the borders go ina battle, really shows the effectivness of Blitzkried, altho it failed to work when hitler was doing absurd things like Napoleon Bonaparte did, starve his soldier to death in Asia.
In World War II, Hitler's German Nazi forces were so powerful that all the countries of the entire European continent failed to defeat them. Eventually, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union were able to defeat the German forces through a combined attack. This shows how efficient, brave and strong the German army was in World War II. The German arsenal was already well equipped with advanced technology. So the combined power of the whole world was used to defeat one Germany. Because of Germany's defeat, they are always belittled in Kerr movies, but it is true that they are truly a nation of Kerr heroes, because they alone are a hundred. And German nationalism is impossibly strong, so even after World War 2 it could not be suppressed even by the burden of debt. Well they turned around in a short amount of time. And the two Germanys were united after the Berlin Wall was broken, and the two superpowers like the United States and the Soviet Union could not hold them back. At present they have emerged as the strongest economic countries in the European continent. Thank you to all the people of Germany for uniting and staying together.
1)Your words? = "This was a pan-European crusade against communism, primarily" English Wikipedia address "Operation Barbarossa" =Invasion= Following the invasion, Goebbels instructed that Nazi propaganda use the slogan "European crusade against Bolshevism" to describe the war; subsequently thousands of volunteers and conscripts joined the Waffen-SS.[207] (Goebbels would pat you on the cheek and thank you for your loyalty to the Fuhrer. ) 2) The Poles were communists too??? Polish Wikipedia address "Untermensch - Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia" The Nazis planned to exterminate all Jews and 51 million Slavs (including 80-85% of Poles, 50% of Czechs and Moravians, 65% of Ukrainians and 75% of Belarusians, as well as an unspecified number of Russians and Crimean Tatars).
@@user-qt1cp1be3u maybe this once, Goebbels may have told the truth. What's certain is that the US/British involvements in the war were pretty marginal in comparison to Russia's.
