Eastern Front animated: 1943/44

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As 1942 ended, it became clear that Germany would not be able to defeat the Red Army. The question was, now that the resources of the Soviet Union had been greatly reduced and the Germans had the defensive advantage, did the Red Army have the strength to push the Germans back and avoid a stalemate?
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Sources:
David Glantz - When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler.
Earl F. Ziemke, Magna E. Bauer III - Moscow To Stalingrad: Decision In The East.
Gregory Liedtke - Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941-1943.
Karl-Heinz Frieser - Germany and the Second World War - Volume VIII - The Eastern Front 1943-1944
Unit symbols:
drive.google.com/open?id=1WN2...
Order of Battle:
www.wwii-photos-maps.com/
www.rkka.ru/imaps.htm
bdsa.ru/
pamyat-naroda.ru/ops/
Map:
Terrain
Europe: Elevation map of Europe - European Environment Agency.
Outside Europe: maps-for-free.com/
Infrastructure:
USSR: Europa 1: 2,500,000 Deutsche Heereskarte: Europaische Russland. 1943.
Other: British 1944 1:2000,000 maps of Europe.
Nerves Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Комментарии : 5 тыс.

@CRE-cl1dv 5 лет назад

I have never been so entertained by bubbles floating around on a map

@fr3yz586 5 лет назад

Yeah

@suryaprakash2126 5 лет назад

You should play hoi4.

@CRE-cl1dv 5 лет назад

@@suryaprakash2126 I do lel

@suryaprakash2126 5 лет назад

@@CRE-cl1dv Lol, what else we need? People who play hoi4 will easily understand this.

@drillasbarbies 5 лет назад

Agar.io

@brotherbisquick 5 лет назад

I Just wanted to acknowledge the tremendous effort that it would take to research and animate something like this, and express my appreciation.

@kayleefreiling14abv19 5 лет назад

you can show appreciation by supporting him on patreon for very little. most people choose not even for big creators so it means alot

@Drakyry 5 лет назад

yee

@secundus6457 5 лет назад

I Just wanted to acknowledge the tremendous effort that it would take to defeat the nazis on the Eastern Front, and express my appreciation.

@mrmice9078 5 лет назад

YEE

@brig.gen.georgiiisserson7226 5 лет назад

Yee

@jacobringenwald 3 года назад

Kind of crazy how WW2 was on such a large scale that entire mountain ranges were merely defensive positions in a campaign.

@Fred_the_1996 2 года назад

Just to put into perspective, the number of casualties of WW2 was 35% larger than the entirety of the population of the Roman Empire when it was in its prime!!!

@concept5631 2 года назад

@@Fred_the_1996 What was the Roman Empire's population?

@Fred_the_1996 2 года назад

@@concept5631 40M

@concept5631 2 года назад

@@Fred_the_1996 Sounds about right.

@doctorrtd4326 2 года назад

@@concept5631 80 million died

@angelovalavanis2314 4 года назад

Just imagine all of the men, materials, vehicles, and planes that were needed for the whole of the Eastern Front. It's astounding to even think about the sheer numbers from both sides.

@angelovalavanis2314 4 года назад

@SilentwarH There's also all of auxiliary equipment, replacement parts, fuel barrels, medical, food, artillery, jeeps, trucks, trains, ammunition, etc...

@Petri_Pennala 4 года назад

Think how that war could have gone if natzis could have not killed their mans (holocaust)

@Ahmed_Hasan_ 3 года назад

@SilentwarH this is the eastern front its the called the first example of armoured warfare for a reason all infantry were mobile and had tucks tanks where seen everywhere shooting other tanks 2km away

@kingcobra7183 3 года назад

@@angelovalavanis2314 German army was 80% horse drawn army no motorized vehicles they were using horses

@angelovalavanis2314 3 года назад

@@kingcobra7183 No motorized vehicles?

@rifkinr4660 5 лет назад

DUDE YOU’RE KILLING ME! THIS SERIES IS SO FREAKIN’ GOOD

@gunarsmiezis9321 5 лет назад

It is beyond good.

@DaS-yu5kc 5 лет назад

Yea it’s freaking amazing the details and information

@bobgatewood5277 5 лет назад

youtube historians have completely replaced all of TV's "educational" channels

@bomschhofmann1644 5 лет назад

Yeah, those video have so much more informations than every TV documantry

@pabloaubele1991 5 лет назад

@@bomschhofmann1644 No kidding! And the level of detail! I think I've learned more by watching these Eastern Front video series than by reading all the history books I've read about it and all the TV documentaries put together!

@robertbrandock8440 5 лет назад

No wonder. TV's are lying and bending facts left and right, while youtubers try to stay as accurate as possible. So obviously people would prefer actual history to the crooked surrogate bend to fit the current political agenda.

@adolfhitler7684 5 лет назад

TV news and history is Manipulated by American and English Maniacs. Due to Cold War to take foolish People's sympathies.

@leferraille7207 4 года назад

@@mer3abec Calm down my friend, he is only a troll.

@wolfdima 4 года назад

My Grandfather fought Germans in one of those square boxes, died somewhere near Kharkov. From what the vets tell us - the fighting was extreme, both sides fought with utmost ferocity AND skill.

@nilfootballgamer9085 4 года назад

My Grandpa fought in battle of stalingrad, battle of Sevastopol and fought in Romania, Bulgaria, hungary and Austria. He fought for the Soviet union and he survived the war. He fought on southern front basically

@poseidon527 4 года назад

@@nilfootballgamer9085 As a current sailor in the US, I respect both of your grandparents for their efforts. I wish our countries had better relations in the modern age.

@nilfootballgamer9085 4 года назад

@@poseidon527 Yes I agree. God bless you. We love US 🇺🇸 too.

@nilfootballgamer9085 4 года назад

@Fatih Cetin Yes that is true.

@WWSzar 4 года назад

My family was murdered by one of those square boxes.

@punchdreadnought8101 4 года назад

Imagine the number of ARMIES ( represented by tiny numbers). I have just read about the North African Front and the battles only happened with few armies. The Eastern Front was insane and breathtaking.

@SanarySeggnete 4 года назад

Soviet Armies was pretty small if compare with other armies, which made them more flexible but in same time need alot officers which Soviet didnt have at the start of war

@aussie870 4 года назад

@@SanarySeggnete I wonder why the Soviets didn't have many officers at the start of the war. A real head-scratcher that is.

@SanarySeggnete 4 года назад

@@aussie870 At the end of Civil war , Soviet had 5millions soldiers This number dropped to 600 thousands after that as Soviet demobilized the Red Army . After 1933 or 1934 , Soviet Red Army increase it size one against because of the threat from Germany At 1935 Red Army had 1.3 millions soldiers and even at this point , the officers were not enough for the army At 1937 The Purge happened , around 30 thousands military personals got executed (not confirmed as nothing about the Purge can be confirmed) but around 50% of the Red Army officers got Purged or Dismissed or sent to Gulag or etc ... while many of them came back to the rank at 1942 , the lack of officer worsened after the Purge as suddenly half of the Red Army top disappeared (mostly to re education camps (or we calling them Gulag)) At 1939 even after half of the officers got removed , the expanding of Red Army didn't stop . They had 1.8 millions soldiers before the Winter War. The failure of Red Army in Winter War made Stalin believed that Red Army was in no position to be in any big war so he decided to expanding it even further .... (Red Army size after the war would be around 1.5millions soldiers) At the point of operation Barbarossa , Red Army had 3milions soldiers in 300 divisions . And ofcourse , with that rapid size increase army , there was no way Soviet could supply their army with enough officers

@SanarySeggnete 4 года назад

to solve the lack of officer , they made the officer rank simpler and ... the early months of eastern front was like : German generals play a chess game while Soviet generals play chinese go chess game . The chess pieces in German generals chess table were the officers played smaller chess game while the go pieces of Soviet generals go chess tables ... had to report to their generals to decide a move.

@aussie870 4 года назад

@@SanarySeggnete I'll be honest I said what I said as a joke, I knew about the Great Purge. But this was a lot of information, thanks a lot lol.

@Sphynra 5 лет назад

This is insanely high-effort content. I can't believe the research it must have taken to track the movements of every single division in the Eastern Front, it helps me have a much better sense of context whenever I read about WWII now, kudos to the creator.

@undeadnightorc 5 лет назад

Yes, this series is a must watch if you are reading and learning about the Eastern Front. Paper maps and descriptive text can only do so much in describing how the war played out. Actually seeing it unfold in animation with such detail is incredibly informative.

@Hobbitangle 5 лет назад

Probably the authors of the video used some specialized software to create such complicated diagrams.

@super_heavy_battleship4205 4 года назад

Akuratist ov Because those you mentioned weren’t large enough to be shown on a map on a scale like this. The danish for example, where barely a few hundred to few. Besides, there ARE italian units on the map, you just didn’t pay enough attention to notice.

@WhoThisMonkey 3 года назад

@@Hobbitangle It was a group effort. Note the credits at the end of each video.

@enderreaper1482 3 года назад

Yeah considering that the red army mobilized around 800 divisions

@SorensiCSteeL 5 лет назад

Takes notes for next Hearts of Iron 4 game

@gabe75001 5 лет назад

Just make sure to have anti-tank in your infantry divisions and 150+ Divisions on the frontline. Don't allow your flanks to be covered by the Italians, Romanians, or Hungarians!

@jonafap9938 5 лет назад

thats why im here

@mortar5282 5 лет назад

If u play against AI maybe

@luizviniciusvieiraalexandr4979 5 лет назад

Ter mee too

@DarthPhantom 5 лет назад

im tryna kill soviet union with only 47 divisions.

@todo9633 4 года назад

This series really demonstrates how the German mastery of maneuver warfare and superior experience was countered by the Russians mastery of attrition warfare and their General's rapidly increasing skill and familiarity with German tactics. You can actually see the Russians trying new things as their troops become more experienced and disciplined, this is a great way to learn about this stuff.

@anderskorsback4104 3 года назад

That, and the Red Army being constantly on the offensive somewhere, frequently shifting focus to keep the Germans off balance and constantly busy, unable to catch its breath long enough to take the initiative.

@AntPictures 3 года назад

@G E T R E K T 905 By your words Russia selling gas and oil to Europe is a life saving event and US sanctioning North Stream 2 is an attack on democracy

@subotaznik 3 года назад

@G E T R E K T 905 read who is the leader in lend-lease - Great Britain, not Russia. And read when there really were deliveries. It was the second half of 1942 and 43. Before that there was no lend-lease or it was scanty

@ZALYVES 2 года назад

@G E T R E K T 905 lol lend lease didnt do that much contrary to what is believed.

@dantecaputo2629 2 года назад

@G E T R E K T 905 Lend lease helped massively, but the USSR still would have won without it though it would have taken much longer. And I don’t think an alternate history video is the best source for making commentary on WWII, no matter how well researched.

@sibinmathew7985 4 года назад

Invading Russia is a logistics nightmare

@RedAction333 4 года назад

So stay out сука

@polpot6 4 года назад

NobleStar Lion Nah

@RedAction333 4 года назад

@@noblestar7742 Pol pot was the victim of American propaganda all the same as the other communist leaders and his people supported him.

@Patop2002 4 года назад

@@RedAction333 The Khmer Rouge where so fucked up that even Vietnam had to intervene. Pol Pot was just another genocidal scumbag.

@stevej71393 4 года назад

Defending Russia was a logistics nightmare too. The Russians suffered more casualties trying to attack in the winter and muddy seasons than the Germans did.

@der_baerlauch 5 лет назад

Incorporating all the 1943 soviet divisions must have been a terrible lot of work. Very well done.

@DanielGaviriaAcosta 5 лет назад

Just wait until 45'

@applesaucedog2642 5 лет назад

Danig Acosta I think they brought back the corps by then.

@hq3473 5 лет назад

@Roughman seriously, I can't imagine the extent of HQ work needed to mangage a front that huge. P.s. the length of the front is what always boggled my mind.

@bombarderoazul 5 лет назад

Yes the red army was gigantic, something like 70 field armies, 5 shock armies, 8 tank armies, 11 guards armies,

@Turnet47 5 лет назад

@@bombarderoazul yeah but soviet armies were not as big a a german or allied army. They were generally the size of a german corps, sometimes even smaller.

@Coolsomeone234 5 лет назад

Yes! New vid. I love these videos

@onvawynog4696 5 лет назад

I hope he does the chinese front after, but thats just wishful thinking

@General_Townes 5 лет назад

@@onvawynog4696 That front was a long painful front and he is already doing videos together with channel "world war 2" where he will probably cover the most of Chinese front after 1939.

@user-rg3ek2ni9c 5 лет назад

A good Nazi is the dead nazi

@forgefathereli8354 5 лет назад

i know right. Their the sexiest and most entertaining numbers and lines I've ever seen! (im not being sarcastic)

@user-to7ue2ob8u 3 года назад

The Red Army was probably the best self learning army in the history - for 4 years they grow in experience and mastery so much!

@bornintheUSSR1 3 года назад

For the highest price in the history...

@jeremiatampubolon6149 3 года назад

Jajajaja you stupid

@jeremiatampubolon6149 3 года назад

And you wrong

@helilivesmatter1075 2 года назад

@@jeremiatampubolon6149 Not really, he's right

@ls200076 2 года назад

@@jeremiatampubolon6149 He's right tho.

@HPmcDoogle 4 года назад

Damn this is great series. The music matches the changes of pace and visuals so well. I can tell this is a labor of love. Im definitely going to keep watching.

@InspectHistory 5 лет назад

Very great & informative video as always, can't wait for the western front series 44/45

@manghariz2211 5 лет назад

Hai inspector disini Gak nyangka mimin nonton channel yang kurang terkenal kali

@marcelobamb 5 лет назад

it will be short video, i think

@InspectHistory 5 лет назад

@@manghariz2211 Hi Inspector! Hehehehe iya ni .. kan bikin konten butuh byk inspirasi jg 🤓

@InspectHistory 5 лет назад

@@marcelobamb No, I think it will be longer, I have a feeling that Es will combine Western & Southern Front 🤓

@manghariz2211 5 лет назад

@@InspectHistory wkwkwkw btw kapan upload min

@Papageno6666 5 лет назад

After watching your eastern front videos I am realizing, that this battle front has been the greatest of all human history.

@AWtify 4 года назад

But western propaganda continues to suggest that the eastern front was a minor event of the WWII.

@Juan-wx5xz 3 года назад

Russia is more big than France, thats why Eastern Front was more WOW! than Western Front

@userprecisealt4136 3 года назад

Johnny Adams Doesn’t matter about the land size..? What matters is 85% of the German army was on the eastern front

@Juan-wx5xz 3 года назад

@@userprecisealt4136 More Land = More Man to Cover it.

@userprecisealt4136 3 года назад

@@Juan-wx5xz That goes for the same for the soviets defending tho, more land = more soldiers to defend the entire front line

@keithyostin4482 3 года назад

This is such an outstanding video. I had been looking for information like this in a lot of different places but didn't find it until now.

@newidad 4 года назад

Truly remarkable, commemorating a brave, tough army campaign. Thank you for the immense effort.

@BornIn1142 5 лет назад

A lot of people have the impression that the Soviets succeeded just by throwing cannon fodder at the Germans and that the winter did most of the killing. The truth is that there was some really good generalship in the Red Army too.

@wilku8888 5 лет назад

Thats right Russians got great proficiency in planning and carrying out great offensives in 1944 and 45.

@adamcrookedsmile 5 лет назад

indeed. the "primitive Russians" completely outsmarted, outmaneuvered, outthought and then annihilated the Nazi 6th Army at Stalingrad.

@Mentol_ 5 лет назад

John Smith > From 1942 onwards, Germany had severe oil shortages Fuel consumption in thousands of tons. 1941 Wehrmacht - 4567 thousand tons. Red Army - 1718 (half a year). 1942 Wehrmacht - 4410 thousand tons. Red Army - 2765 thousand tons. 1943 Wehrmacht - 4762 thousand tons. Red Army - 3338 thousand tons. > Soviets took absurd casualties that they were only able to afford due to their massive population size. USSR mobilized 35 million people throughout the war, Germany mobilized 20 million. At the end of the war, Germany used old people and children and its human resources ran out, so the percentage of its military losses was higher than soviet. > Around 20 million dead with a k/d ratio well below 1 even up to and during the battle of Berlin. 20 million is military + civilian casualties. The total ratio of military casualties should not exceed 2 : 1. Losses in the battle for Berlin were in favor of the Red Army. However, the criterion of victory is not the losses, but the achievement of the main goals. > The eventual Soviet victory, especially when accounting for Allied aid, is not admirable at all. The help of the allies was only a bonus in relation to the Soviet economic efforts. The USSR deserves respect because it defeated the Axis bloc with less industrial potential than Germany, especially after the occupation.

@NamemaNSl 5 лет назад

@@JohnSmith-1066 "Around 20 million dead" Most of the dead are civilians whom the Germans killed in their rear. Losses among the military: 8,668,000 - the USSR (the main part in 1941), 5,076,000 - Germans. Together with the Germans, several other countries fought against the USSR. The USSR had no advantage in the number of people. In addition, almost all of continental Europe worked for Germany. The USSR lost its main industrial areas in 1941, 73 million people (1/3 of the total population of the USSR) were under German occupation. By the end of 1941, the USSR was lagging behind the Axis countries in terms of population and industry, but nevertheless won the war. The successes of the Germans in 1941 are associated with the surprise attack and unpreparedness of the Soviet army for war. Just before the war in the USSR, major reforms began in the army. They were not completed by 1941, many units of the army were not equipped with equipment, many lacked soldiers, etc. If the war began 2 years later, it would have ended much faster.

@bombarderoazul 5 лет назад

@@JohnSmith-1066 20 million dead is including civilians, military dead are about 8.9 million, including almost 2 million that died in Nazi concentration camps, german dead are 4.3 million, soviet casualties were very heavy, but mostly in the first 2 years, as the red army became a better fighting force, they inflicted very heavy casualties on the germans, in the last six months of 1944, Germany lost 800,000 men, and also Germany didn't really have any significant fuel shortage until the red army captured Romania,

@joanj94 5 лет назад

I was waiting for this, nice work as always :D

@IndraSunrise 4 года назад

I wish I could like this video more than once. This is amazing work.

@pyJIoHuo 5 лет назад

I'm really looking forward to see next chapter!

@Capital2x 5 лет назад

AMAZIN' !!!! I HAD BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS !!!!!!!

@MatiasKiviniemi 5 лет назад

It's very interesting to realize that the "battle of Kursk" was not a singular event (~armies collide at a field) as it's often portrayed but a rather a long sequence of continuous maneuvers.

@gravelking2.071 4 года назад

First of all, it was a battle of intelligences. It can't be shown on a map. but soviet intel did an amazing job, securing the victory of red army troops.

@HoLSurena 4 года назад

Teorically the next soviet operations are not consider part of the battle of Kursk properly but without it such a success would be imposible to reach

@illegalewahrheiten2911 4 года назад

@@gravelking2.071 Getting the German battle plans nicely packaged in the mail likely had more to do with it than any Soviet Intelligence.

@illegalewahrheiten2911 3 года назад

@Reunite The British Empire Perhaps, but my definiton of intelligence is acquiring information by clever means. Having somebody just betray the plans to you is merely luck.

@christian9125abd 3 года назад

the battle of kursk was just taking on for a week as than the germany realised they can'T win and the soviet would have made an big push anyways and without losing alot man in the battle of kursk it would have been even better + they could have used that information to make an offensive somewhere else and make the germans give up all dreams about kursk

@house684 4 года назад

This helps me understand war in general, and this WWII in particular, better than anything I've ever read or seen. I've learned about salients and pockets, and I love it. What a great series.

@WilliamHouStudio 4 года назад

This is amazing, it is so much easier to understand what happened than reading texts, history education like this would have been so much more interesting for everyone! Really appreciate this, the difficulties, the knowledge and research required to make this happen is tremendous. I hope this kind of animation could be used more often elsewhere for education purposes.

@benfelts1764 5 лет назад

The graphic depiction of the German pocket's retreat and escape at ~10:17 was brilliant. Shrinking the circles to reflect the effect of lack of supply and disorganization on the combat effectiveness of the trapped units, and restoring the size to illustrate their return to combat effectiveness on escape, was a very effective use of simple graphics to convey a nuanced situation. Well done!

@mennoltvanalten7260 2 года назад

As well as to better show that they were properly encircled, rather than that only a thin barrier stood between them and escape on all sides which it would look like if the pocket were large enough to fit all the units in it at the previous scale

@enterthedragon2689 10 месяцев назад

You are overthinking it. The only reason for shrinking the circles is to let them graphically fit in the small encircled territory they got caught in.

@mrpineconehead 5 лет назад

oh boy here comes *_B A G R A T I O N_*

@lhaviland8602 5 лет назад

Shhhhhh, spoilers.

@musculussphincter2360 5 лет назад

Swiggins oioioioioioioioi

@lincolndexter9514 5 лет назад

exactly, D-day fails to compare to the success of Bagration due to the incompetance of the german high command the entire army group centre was destroyed

@paolo3964 5 лет назад

oh lawd he comin

@bombarderoazul 5 лет назад

I need to see how bagration was achieved, the germans were holding back the red army very well up to mid 1944. Although they were losing ground , but at bagration the red army finally ruptured the German front and pretty much annihilated army group centre.

@evo636 4 года назад

These videos are absolutely fantastic. Thank you for your effort!

@EnemigoalasPuertas 2 года назад

So much work. Excellent edition. A tremendous feat. 👏👏👏

@TheeEmperor 5 лет назад

Who else predicted this to be posted today ? (FEBRUARY 2nd) the day the germans surrendered in Stalingrad.

@Eastory 5 лет назад

That is a nice coincidence indeed :)

@tga5065 5 лет назад

Or Shakira's birthday

@oleksandrspasichenko7093 5 лет назад

@FREE 3021 The most decisive battle of WW2 is "Battles around Rzhev".

@delstanley1349 5 лет назад

The Emperor> Ground hogs of course!

@pabloaubele1991 5 лет назад

@@Eastory When's 1945 going to be launched? I think I'm more expectant of that video than I was of the 3rd Season of Rick & Morty

@erelghania355 5 лет назад

Germany:*has 60 circles USSR : Aww...thats cute. How about FOUR HUNDRED SQUARES

@SAVSAV1212 5 лет назад

yeah, but one circle is 2-3 times bigger than square by number of troops

@aleksaradojicic8114 5 лет назад

German circles are corps that have at least 2 or 3 divisions normaly. Soviet squares are divisions that are half size of german division.

@leferraille7207 5 лет назад

nah looks like 1000 to me

@mexicoball2529 5 лет назад

German Circle = Army Soviet big square = Army Soviet small square = Division Soviet divisions are smaller than the German average division.

@fernandoreyes835 5 лет назад

Eso significa calidad por sobre la cantidad. La cantidad era lo único que podia derrotar al Eje

@KuvDabGib 4 года назад

This is amazing piece of art! Great job!

@justintaylor9871 4 года назад

This took an awesome amount of research. Thank you!

@rougehawk 5 лет назад

The amount of data in this is insane.

@user-qi9gr1jp6p 5 лет назад

КЛЕВО!!! Очень большой труд был вложен в эту карту, огромное спасибо!)

@Wow4ik4ik 5 лет назад

10 сталинских ударов на карте и курская битва в движении ! такое на военной кафедре/Вузе не стыдно ставить и разбирать

@azkanat6830 5 лет назад

@@Wow4ik4ik ну, предположим, Курск разобрали не так чтобы очень, уделив больше внимания последующим наступлениям. И это хорошо, потому что про Курск говорят много, а вот про последующие наступления, например, под Смоленском - куда меньше. Ждём последнюю/предпоследнюю часть.

@user-ti3my4ud9x 5 лет назад

У меня у одного чувство, что пара немецких дивизий удерживало столько русских? В чем подвох?

@johnmerkel4917 5 лет назад

@@Wow4ik4ik I like to think "10 Zhukov strikes" ! either way.... Russia was awesome.

@johnmerkel4917 5 лет назад

@@Wow4ik4ik ......and Rokossovsky is a 'favorite' for the best 'back hand strike' - Operation Bagration !

@Brifrakenki Год назад

I remember watching this on day 1, and boy am i still watching it because the animation and details put to it is just so good and satisfying..

@1993Redemption 4 года назад

Incredible Eastory, just incredible.

@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs 5 лет назад

I've been waiting for this :D

@arelcemkencebay2819 3 года назад

I am suprised its 2 years yet no reply

@elijahmacalpin3418 3 года назад

Hi iron

@uio890138 5 лет назад

Every time that red line moves several thousand soldiers died.

@polpot6 5 лет назад

Imagine the western front of ww1

@AndreyLuzinov 5 лет назад

That's the cost russians had to pay while US was sitting in their warn homes.

@uio890138 5 лет назад

Andrey, last time I checked, no US solider had a 'warm home' in Europe, but yet we have 10's of thousands of soldiers buried there. And I also looked as hard as I could for the graves of Russian soldiers throughout the Pacific from the "Great Patriotic War" fought against Japan, but I can't find a single one....

@AndreyLuzinov 5 лет назад

@@uio890138 Yes US landed Europe in 44 but war started in 39 you know and somebody had to deal with 154 german divisions. And also russians defeated Japanese in 1945 in China.

@sergeeduardodegernier5195 5 лет назад

@@AndreyLuzinov Africa? Italy? Go learn history.

@dr.s2491 4 года назад

Never have I ever ... stared at moving boxes and bubbles in such amazement. Great job!

@ThisOLmaan 4 года назад

this was special to me, just one of the most interesting videos i saw, and i saw many on this subject. But they don't compare to this one. This is well worth downloading and saving.

@IpetTiger 5 лет назад

Circles: "HOLD THE LINE!" Squares: " LUL "

@viktorpetukhov727 4 года назад

Don't dare you encircle a square

@yatsumleung8618 5 лет назад

8:00 KIROVOGRAD. We have heard stories about the fierce defence capabilities of US airborne at Bastogne and British airborne in Arnhem. Here we have the German 2nd airborne aiding the defence of Kirovograd (as element of 11th Infantry Corp shown on the map) until spring while being vastly outnumbered and armed only with Panzerschrecks against Soviet tanks, losing half of the division in the process. The division would then be redeployed to fight against the D-Day invasion in Normandy, as seen in Band of Brothers episode 3. The German 1st airborne is more well know. See 10:35, in Italy. Monte Cassino.

@milankrajnovic5148 4 года назад

Respect for this great animation and video!

@timhill7177 3 года назад

Truly awe inspiring work in this presentation. Thank you.

@spicenuggetz7397 5 лет назад

The legend is back!

@Grayghost04 5 лет назад

For more than 2 years, Army Group Center enjoyed the relatively calm and stable front. Summer is coming.

@GrislyAtoms12 2 года назад

Um, Rzhev salient? Operation Mars? Aka the "Meatgrinder". Not calm, just suppressed.

@alwayscrabby7871 3 года назад

That was a great video! How did I miss this before now.

@user-me2vh3uc8w 4 года назад

Благодарность за проделанный труд. Мурашки по коже, когда видишь сколько людей полегло в той войне.

@emin166 Год назад

@Complex CR Germans tried to make the soviets go extinct. This war was a survival war for the soviet union

@enterthedragon2689 10 месяцев назад

Мурашки по коже? Можем повторить?

@YresTA 10 месяцев назад

@@floron7777да в начале войны у нас были проблемы с командованием, у нас считали что мы сможем остановить легко немецкое наступление

@YresTA 10 месяцев назад

@@enterthedragon2689можем повторить появился как рас от самих солдат после ВОВ и означал лишь что если кто либо ещё опять сунется к нам то они сделают это ещё раз

@enterthedragon2689 10 месяцев назад

@@YresTA Сделают ещё раз что? 27 миллионов смертей советских граждан? Боже, какой же ты долбоёб. Найди мне хоть одно подтверждение, что ветераны ВОВ так говорили. Никогда они такого не говорил. Сам выдумал хуйню, так ещё и приписал её ветеранам, которые со слезами на глазах вспоминали события той войны. Что они на самом деле говорили, так это: "лишь бы не было войны" и "пусть вашему поколению никогда не удастся узнать, что такое война" -- это я помню лично, когда в седьмом классе к нам в школу пригласили нескольких ветеранов нашего города. Учитывая, что ты не знаешь, как пишутся элементарные слова на русском языке ("как рас"), я не удивлён, что ты несёшь полную чепуху. Необразованный кусок тупого говна. "Можем повторить" -- слоган современных дураков, которые забыли, чем пожертвовали советские граждане, сколько их было убито. Забыли цену, которую уплатили простые люди, чтобы победить. Поэтому свою помойку открывают, и воняют про "можем повторить" со своих пропёрженных диванов, потому что они не знают, что такое война, они не были тогда там. Никто никогда не захочет такого повторения с сожжёнными деревнями с людьми внутри, с концлагерями, пытками и другими ужасами. Дебил ёбанный, блядь.

@Zztoph 5 лет назад

Nice video, very informative 👍

@user-nk3xw8qm5q 3 года назад

Вы говорите о курской битве а я думал это видео на русском

@Alorand 5 лет назад

There's too many squares for the circles to win.

@-_Hatred_- 5 лет назад

Squares smaller than circles by 3-4 times

@SAVSAV1212 5 лет назад

@Haus Just like in the Western front

@lincolndexter9514 5 лет назад

@Haus it was only outnumbered 1:3 at the very most

@lincolndexter9514 5 лет назад

@Haus it was only outnumbered 1:3 at the very most

@kestutisvaiciunas8663 5 лет назад

Which is a lot, considerig that 1:3 is 1 million against 3 million@@lincolndexter9514

@stretch654 4 года назад

It's hard to imagine the scale of this conflict. Imagine having to command and coordinate so many armies .. boggles the mind.

@Solidinius_Snake 4 года назад

And the worst of all supply them all.

@user-qu9wk7ru7e 3 года назад

This gives me hope that someone may think "Maybe Stalin and USSR leadership wasnt idiots?". WW2 was difficulty=hard, no questions, but Soviets managed to develop backward country that lost to Japan before WW1, and cant even supply its troops with basic supplies in the end of WW1, ruined even more after Civil war+Foreign troops invasion into industrial country that managed to survive insane blows in WW2, transfer this new industry to eastern regions and increase production even more. This difficultylvl=insane. And even more insane considering that soon after the war, burnt, ruined and pillaged country that lost 27 mil lives managed to create nuclear bomb. If you love WW2 history, most likely you will love to learn more about Soviet leadership, there is lots remarkable things there. I think this ppl at least deserve fair view on their deeds.

@erspassky8891 3 года назад

that was what hitler and stalin were doing everyday like chess pieces on the eastern front from 1941 to 1945 ! and Stalin won the match after all the sacrifices of the russian soldier, with the end game and checkmate in Berlin!

@tka4nik 3 года назад

@G E T R E K T 905 sure

@nigblack552 2 года назад

@G E T R E K T 905 kinda, but you cannot say US won. 80% of german casualties were on the Eastern Front. When the US landed on D-Day, USSR already destroyed german armies and had entered some of Konigsberg. They had liberated eastern europe and depleted resources. They also started using better strategy and recovered their old strength which made them dependent on US less than they were in 41-42. They also completed most of their military recovery which allowed them to advance deeper. But yea, both the US and USSR were the key to Allied victory ( UK too because of their african and asian campaigns while liberating South East Asia )

@paulsunday7688 4 года назад

This graphic work is pure excellence. Well done 👍

@VendPrekmurec 5 лет назад

SO, you want to tell us that the winter from 1939 to 1945 WAS NOT ETERNAL LIKE THE HISTORIANS TELL US?!

@Loreless 5 лет назад

and General Frost doesn't exist?

@nicolasdavidortizruiz7215 5 лет назад

And the aliens didn’t help the nazis?

@choro3d 5 лет назад

Yes, and he even dares to say that not only frost has beaten the Germans.. It seems like Russian army also have done something.

@rjjcms1 5 лет назад

@VendPrekmurec Never thought that from anything I was taught or read. Some of those places,especially in the south,could get very warm in the summer months,certainly between June and September. It's just that,with heavy rains common in October causing thick mud on a sketchy road patchwork spread over vast distances and the coming of snow,ice and seriously sub-zero temperatures between November and at least February the Russian winter was a factor that could be used to the Red Army's advantage and caught the Germans not fully prepared or equipped.

@VendPrekmurec 5 лет назад

Ralph Jackson the advantage for the Nazis was the whole European fascist alliance against Russia which was still suffering from civil war, but instead of everything (the fact that the whole Europe - without few countries) they still have won the war. Whole fascist Europe could not take 5% of Russian territory and were already destroyed on the Russian periphery, border, in Stalingrad.Winter was not eternal from 1939 to 1945. Do you think that winter was not stopping the Russians from destroying Nazis? Millions of people (before that healthy, young) froze to death becouse of the occupation of Leningrad.

@aberroa1955 5 лет назад

This! This is what should be in RU-vid Rewind. This videos is a masterpiece, considering it's educational and informational value and lack of content with similar quality and details.

@rookiereekie358 2 года назад

I love how over the course of this series you can see the Soviet doctrine of Deep Battle in development and use

@mko8345 3 года назад

I really see these videos as groundbreaking work. Finally someone uses the digital media and digital tools to create something new and worthwhile in the context of (military) history. Amazing, or maybe also worrying, that it was created by private person(s) and not "official" historians. I hope it inspires more stuff like this. Maybe even the same but on divisional level? That would be so great!

@randall172 5 лет назад

awwww, you can see the over extension of army group center by the end, i thought we were gonna see bagration

@randall172 5 лет назад

@@chrisbruhe yeah unlike before, the germans are essentially reacting to the soviets.

@Nikola95inYT 5 лет назад

@@chrisbruhe well, it was not an issue in 1941... Besides numbers, quality is also matters. The best elite soldiers died at Stalingrad.

@mikey-lastnamey7976 5 лет назад

@@Nikola95inYT Not just at Stalingrad, but everywhere in the Eastern front. All these pocket liquidations and POW captures in 1941 didn't come for free, like in France. Most of them cost the Germans large casualties. So did rapid advance into enemy territory for hundreds of kilometers under fire from Soviet bombers. Most pessimistic (as it turns out realistic) German generals started writing in their diaries that the war appears to be lost as early as fall of 1941.

@cccpredarmy 5 лет назад

@@mikey-lastnamey7976 reason pretty simple. The goal for the war was to destroy red army by the end of summer, let it crumble, and let the soviet government crumble with it. little did they know...

@ASMR.GentleMan 5 лет назад

@@mikey-lastnamey7976 you have a source about the pessimistic generals writing something like that? im curious

@tom_skip3523 5 лет назад

Man you put much detail into thid simulation.. Image this happened in Real Life... it would have been the biggest war :0

@oskrm 5 лет назад

and we might call it a World War

@tom_skip3523 5 лет назад

Oscar Mike Exactly

@rainfield5323 5 лет назад

I can't even tell that you are joking or not

@ducc999 5 лет назад

And we can make a cool sequel when former friend turns out to be a villian.

@danilomejiarua4521 5 лет назад

@@ducc999 And they start racing for controlling the world like a Chess game, and it can include some crazy cool bombs :o

@Tapoo 2 года назад

I'm so happy to know this gem-like channel. And thank you so much for translating it into Korean.I subscribed right away. XD

@DiscordantVice 2 года назад

Fantastic video, I learned a lot. Thank you.

@ik2254 5 лет назад

Also, somewhere during the Kursk operation, most likely in the north died one of my granddads. MIA. 1943. Edit: he fought from USSR side.

@blockboygames5956 5 лет назад

Respect to your grandfather. Being a soldier on either side in such a terrible war is worthy of respect. Love from Australia. :)

@yanxu1815 5 лет назад

Hero

@saamohod 5 лет назад

Умер за Сталина.

@haimncukerman5455 5 лет назад

Уважение и вечная им память !

@maddskillz5177 5 лет назад

Almost every russian lost someone in that war.

@gvendivline 5 лет назад

Omg finally! I was waiting for this for so long!

@keithehredt753 4 года назад

Nicely put together brother

@bennyblanco4rmthaBX 4 года назад

Absolutely sublime. A classic. Bravo!

@chrisedrev9519 5 лет назад

This video is an absolute masterpiece. It gives us an amazing vantage point towards the front. Things become much clearer when looked at from above. Thank you!!

@workingproleinc.676 3 года назад

@neutzz2008 5 лет назад

Love that I found your channel. Nice work... this war is almost uncomprehensible ... one could spend a lifetime studying all the infinite stories within stories within stories and hardly scratch the surface to its true complexity. Thank you for your dedication and highly informative videos

@rja1702 4 года назад

I subbed so fast, excellent video !!

@bernardlemaitre4701 3 года назад

fantastic work !

@salokin3087 5 лет назад

Been loving your work on the world war 2 channel, you capture the scale of conflict fantastically!

@shackhurst 5 лет назад

Sorry Germany, but your attrition strategy would only work in hoi4

@randall172 5 лет назад

yeah, only if a moron was playing, the trick to beat a germany that is defensive, is to only attack in one area, a defensive germany cannot hope to stop a determined soviet attack, and if you mass your tanks you'll cause a breakthrough. most noobs just use the auto ai attack, which attacks everywhere which is stupid.

@roberthansen5727 5 лет назад

@@randall172 the frontage mechanics and terrain defense are badly designed tbf, and manpower/troop counts are pretty much meaninglessly infinite. It takes a fairly ridiculous degree of attrition to break through a well positioned defense in HoI IV.

@eugenhartwig 5 лет назад

1/2,3,4="Sorry" ?

@Spanish_Conquistador 2 года назад

I like how the map changes colour in winter compared to summer, really puts the timeline in perspective

@Semper_Iratus 4 года назад

outstanding work, just epic.

@jacquesmerley7717 5 лет назад

hard to wait for Bagration episode to be posted.

@OmegaTrooper 5 лет назад

the anticipation is making me hard

@faizur4209 5 лет назад

Although I'm not from Europe but I like European history. They are Intelligent, brave, disciplined and hard working. Love from the tiny Aisan Country 🇧🇩Bangladesh.

@farhanrahman7119 5 лет назад

I'm from Bangladesh too

@amelgicic7588 5 лет назад

Bangladesh is not a small country :D greetings from europe.

@DutchTDK 4 года назад

Bagladesh is bigger than 2/3rd of the european countries

@Hectopath2006 4 года назад

I'm officially British but genetically Bangladeshi.

@thicctony6236 4 года назад

Bangladesh more like bang a dish

@PravaRusija 4 года назад

Excellent work, thanks!

@jamesgrange9774 3 года назад

Out of all the documentaries this just blows them outta the water, straight and to the point, perfect.

@Adidas_der_schwanger_war 3 года назад

its for the people interested in the war and not the ideological stuff

@_aragornyesyes_7171 5 лет назад

Great vid m8 As always!

@originalname2457 5 лет назад

Удивительно, какой степени выдержку нужно иметь, чтобы сделать подобного кач-ва видео. Снимаю перед вами шляпу. Очень бы хотелось видеть подобный цикл видео о Гражданской войне в России, всё таки Эстония сыграла там не последнюю роль)

@germaniamapper6606 5 лет назад

Видел на его патреоне сбор на гражданскую войну. Так что всё будет

@morton9186 5 лет назад

You know what? I agree! ₩#¥£€*#》◇% indeed.

@user-bz3hw9ry8u 5 лет назад

пред последнюю?

@user-ek7gq4qo4z 5 лет назад

Вообще никакой роли не сыграла.

@888NSB 5 лет назад

Эстония сыграла роль говна на сапоге.

@safarmagzumov1611 3 года назад

Thank you for your hard work . Reading the sky to everyone !

@maxbird8487 2 года назад

Thanks a lot, great job!

@alorlov2449 5 лет назад

Спасибо за Ваш титанический труд. Дед погиб под Ригой. Начинал на Невском пятачке.

@SytheYT528 5 лет назад

your videos is so intresting to watch. cant wait for more

@billanderson1075 Год назад

Amazingly well done.

@obiwankenobi4252 3 года назад

0:46 my Grandpa was a Marshal (an Italian rank equivalent to an American Sergeant Major) in the Italian expeditionary force in Russia. He took part in the battles in the caucasus and Eastern Ukraine, before the force was recalled to Italy due to the allied invasion. During a skirmish with the Soviet forces, a comrade of his was wounded. He carried him for kilometres before becoming exhausted, and told him "I'll make sure someone comes to aid you", before being forced to leave him below a tree. Years later, after the war, the two met again.

@f.s.1429 3 года назад

do they both speak russian and their names are now Oleg and Sergej? After russifuckation?

@hanzcastillo3099 3 года назад

Is this true? If so, this can be a great book about friendship.

@obiwankenobi4252 3 года назад

@@hanzcastillo3099 I’m not quite sure if this is true, as it’s an oral story passed down my father’s family tree, but the two weren’t really friends, they just met eachother after the war. It could also be that the other Italian soldier was captured by the soviets and then released

@water6992 5 лет назад

10:15 nice flex by the encirced german units

@applesaucedog2642 5 лет назад

Binny by the way, those black divisions are armored ones according to the google drive in the description.

@LorBar 5 лет назад

In the next episode there will be the Operation Bagration!

@websman5345 5 лет назад

Dude, why havn't you posted spoiler alert first ?

@MrKiljeaden89 5 лет назад

@@websman5345 calm ur sarcasm

@bombarderoazul 5 лет назад

Yes, but before that I think the red army attacked Finland and captured karelia and petsamo regions

@tutex119 4 года назад

You mean the Bagration Human wave attack?

@tutex119 4 года назад

@slovene ball yep we're talking about the same. That offensive were they throwed houndreds of thoudsends of men and vehicules agaist the germans straight to the west. And army group center was crushed under million of soviet boots laking any decent tactic

@NotTheBomb 3 года назад

This is so good. Watched it more then once

@Mark_Kunets 3 года назад

I subbed to you; your effort is impeccable

@KingNxt 5 лет назад

*new video from eastory* *stops car by the motorway to watch* *eastory first* *safety second*

@alfredlu7228 5 лет назад

Did you die?

@hmscentre2907 4 года назад

Bloody hell, are you alive?

@limabean1202 5 лет назад

Dear Eastory, I just watched all of your "Brilliant Plan to Win WW2" videos, and I gotta say: they were some of the most interesting and informative videos about WW2 that I have ever seen. I learned so much from them! I really hope that you could also make a Brilliant Plan video about Imperial Japan as well, as I expect that you would make it very informative and fun to watch.