Very moving video, it made me cry, Thinking about all those crews lost over germany, as the song said, a wing and a prayer. God bless those brave men, those who fought and survived, and those who still fly up in the heavens today.
True, but it is quite clear from the start that this is a composite simulation, but it was very well done and I congratulate the author of this work for at least trying to keep the image of what happened during WW2 alive. Well done guys
+Samiam well, in the end yes, but not before suffering humongous losses in early stages of the war. plus, they used territory if Ukraine and Belarus as a sort of cushion against German invasion, without that territory Germans would probably have conquered European part of Russia, including Moscow, and stopped somewhere at Ural mountains. plus, while 'average Russian citizen' did fight back, there were also something like 2 million Russian troops on Nazi's side, most famous but not at all unique one being general Vlasov's 'Russian Liberation Army'. not to mention that in early stages of WW2, Stalin was Hitler's ally, and he also had a lot to do with him coming to power in Germany. just saying
i don't know if that's so much true for WW2, they were so unprepared for the attack that they hardly managed to evacuate people and factories and stuff, but on other occasions--say during Napoleon's invasion in 1812, they burned Moscow before it was occupied by him. but hey, while Russians are tough, they're not the only ones like that. Spaniards also fought very hard against Napoleon's army, even though presumably he was bringing more 'progressive' social order. by the way, thing about Vlasov's army is it was created already a year or so after the invasion. Vlasov was originally a favorite of Stalin, who then turned against him because he hated what bolsheviks did to his country, and saw Nazis as lesser evil. he was encircled by Germans and surrendered to them in '42, i think. he's a very tragic and complex figure. actually, in the very end of the war, his troops helped Prague rebellion against Nazis and then tried to stave off the Red Army, hoping to instead get Czech republic occupied by US and Brits. didn't work out, sadly also, the reason USSR was so badly hit in June 1941, was that Stalin refused to believe his own intelligence which reported that Hitler was about to attack. Stalin wanted to use Hitler as a sort of trojan horse in Europe, and then move in as a 'liberator'. that's why he had so many troops in western parts of USSR, yet they were so badly beaten by Germans early on--they were prepared to attack, but not to defend. but let none of this take away from heroism of Russian soldiers that did fight and beat Nazis, of course
well, to a point you are. there was 'lend lease', a program of US and England supplies of everything from arms to food to USSR, much of it via Arctic ocean convoys. plus, whatever resistance was in Europe and other places, did help Soviet cause. El Alamein, Greece(it may very well be that those dozen or so divisions that Germans had to use in Greece, bailing Mussolini out, were precisely what they lacked when nearly clinching Moscow in late'41). the Poles resisted, Yugoslavs, Albanians, eventually French, Norwegians, Danes did too. Plus England was fighting Germany on sea, plus allies landed in Sicily in '43 and then in Normandy in '44. USSR bore the brunt of it, but Stalin pretty much brought it on his own country, and it's not like others didn't fight. after all, England and France were attacked first, when USSR was essentially aiding Hitler. and plus, US was busy with Japan.
well, Stalin and Co had a sort of double-sided attitude towards nazism and fascism. they saw 'liberal' western powers as more essential enemies, because USSR was created as a total opposite to capitalist order. they on one hand saw fascists and nazis as offshoot of capitalism, but at the same time tried to take advantage of them. by the way, don't forget that Nazi party was officially 'socialist', and Mussolini also was a socialist in his early days. so USSR on one hand always ran anti-fascist propaganda, yet tried to strike a deal with them against the western allies. they signed the 'Molotov-Ribbentrop' pact in '39, which gave Germany Poland and USSR West Ukraine, West Belarus and Baltic republics. so basically, Stalin knew he'd have to fight big at some point or another, but he presumed he first would use Nazis as a ram against the West, which to large extent worked. generally, funny thing about Soviet society was, it claimed to be most peaceful but in reality its economy was most militarized in the world. Vlasov decided to side with Hitler because he thought that even though Hitler hater Russians and considered them sub-human, but at least he would do away with 'collective farms', oppression of Christianity and other things that bolsheviks did. sometimes you have to choose, you know, and you got no really good choice. Vlasov saw GULAG and other horrors of communism, while horrors of nazism weren't that obvious yet, and he probably also thought they were largely work of propaganda. but like i said, in the end of the war his troops did essentially turn on Germans, in Prague. by the way, Vlasov didn't command 2 million, it's just that his unit is the most well known among Russian collaborationist formations. it was in reality about 20K
Some of the stories of those Forts coming home so shot up it was a wonder they could make it home, so unbelievable. Those old girls were built tough and as long as their engines were turning they brought their crews home!
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