The Massive Russian Meat Grinder at Yelnya 

Sad to see minesweeper picture only used as clickbait and did not appear anywhere in the video.

3 million German soldiers coming straight for you.....absolutely astounding! And to be repelled and denied. The numbers are just mind blowing.

Imagine if clickbait never happened

Excellent. History forgotten is History repeated until utter destruction. Who wants THAT ?

Don't click bate bud. No need. You have cracking videos

Yeah this is what happens when you purge your army of its best and brightest because you think they might be a threat to your power.

Thank you for sharing 🤗🙏🇺🇲🏆

RIP to everyone who lost their lives fighting for their motherland ❤

If history has taught one thing, there is no more determined foe, no more motivated adversary, no greater fighting force than those protecting their homeland from invasion. Proceed to your own Peril.

The first 4 Guards units at the division level of the USSR WWII era were created by this battle. ///////////////// The Yelnya Offensive is also associated with the creation of the veteran Guards units when the 100th and 127th gh Divisions were renamed into the 1st and 2nd Guards Rifle Divisions. On 26 September 1941, the 107th and 120th Rifle Divisions were also renamed the 5th and 6th Guards Rifle Divisions. ///////////////// YT strictly prohibits external links. But you can easily get the above info through Google.

Reported for misleading. You dont need to clickbait your viewers. Your content is good enough, it doesn't require clickbaiting.

Great video! A quick tactical map here and there would really help :)

The decision to move south instead of Moscow makes perfect sense because Hitler knew that the soviets can be defeated by only depriving them of resources like Caucausus oil. You take the oil the russian tanks and other mechanized forces can no longer move.

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5:42... "the 29th motorized Inf Div. under Brigadier General.... erm.. There was NEVER a eank of Brigadier General in Germany until 1955 in the Bundeswehr. Until 1945 there was the Oberst ( Colonel ) and then the Generalmajor (Maj General). Please avoid those mistakes

I agree on the clickbait.

I thoroughly enjoy all the Dark Docs videos. The use of clickbait tactics is completely unnecessary, very annoying, and most of all insulting. Please don't do that. You're better than that. Stop it.

Riga and Vilnius were actually rejoicing at the German liberation.

Great work.

If I ever got meat grinder I’d be like “ouch! Stop it, please! Enough is enough!” And hopefully my meats stop being grinded shortly thereafter.

That was a human being that went flying out of that tank in the intro!!!!!

The Axis got a "smashing" off Stalin. In 2 years bitter fighting on the Eastern front, he proved himself to be Axis Smasher number 1.

Stalin soon found out to move his Weapons Factories out of reach from the Germans and made new and Industrially efficient Factories to the east, with some help from American Industrial Experts. So he outproduced even the Americans with rough, but efficient new tanks, with interchangeable spares even from several factories.

The Allies should have never given so much to Russia. Malta was a disaster .

I love your intro animation

0:20 "The three independent Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania - were invaded and occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin and auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that had been signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in August 1939, immediately before the outbreak of World War II.[1][2] The three countries were then annexed into the Soviet Union (formally as "constituent republics") in August 1940. The United States and most other Western countries never recognised this incorporation, considering it illegal.[3][4] On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union and within weeks occupied the Baltic territories. In July 1941, the Third Reich incorporated the Baltic territory into its Reichskommissariat Ostland. As a result of the Red Army's Baltic Offensive of 1944, the Soviet Union recaptured most of the Baltic states and trapped the remaining German forces in the Courland Pocket until their formal surrender in May 1945.[5] During the 1944-1991 Soviet occupation large numbers of people from Russia and other parts of the former USSR were settled in the three Baltic countries, while the local languages, religion and customs were suppressed.[6] David Chioni Moore classified it as a "reverse-cultural colonization", where the colonized perceived the colonizers as culturally inferior.[7] Colonization of the three Baltic countries was closely tied to mass executions, deportations and repression of the native population. During both Soviet occupations (1940-1941; 1944-1991) a combined 605,000 inhabitants of the three countries were either killed or deported (135,000 Estonians, 170,000 Latvians and 320,000 Lithuanians), while their properties and personal belongings, along with ones who fled the country, were confiscated and given to the arriving colonists - Soviet military and NKVD personnel, as well as functionaries of the Communist Party and economic migrants."

You need to get some new film footage if possible as we have seen most of these numerous times

I find the hypothesis compelling, that the southern priority was driven by Germany's desperate need for oil; reserves totalling only a few months. That started to draw away reserves from the Moscow axis much later than the need to secure the huge pocket at Kiev (19/7/1941: Directive 33) but must have been in mind from the start.

Is there a movie of this battle .

Imagine if Barbarossa never happened

Stalin certainly didn't react "swiftly" to the invasion.

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The German offensive in Russia was a disorganized mess from the get-go. Generals in the OKH were constantly tweaking Hitler's order to align with their own priorities. In fact, Hitler thought that taking Moscow would be useless and instead wanted to move north to take Lenningrad and cut off the Allies' supply routes into Russia. He also wanted a simultaneous thrust to the south to cut off Russian oil from the Caucuses. These were strategic moves that, if strictly followed may have weakened Russia to a point where they could only defend and not counterattack on a broad front. Unfortunately for Hitler (and the German Army), the Staff generals in OKH were myopically focused on Moscow and this greatly diluted efforts in the north and south. Bad for German - Good for Russia (and the world).

Growing up is realising without lendlease none of the allied forces would have recovered from the stunning German victory’s on both fronts (Dunkirk) (collapse of Russians entire western frontier)

Theyre actually all on the same team.

Brest and Grodno were Polish cities at that time under Soviet Union occupation in 1941

First? Second? Woo!

Hmmm Meat Grinder Image. No actual tank. Click Bait trick. good article poor choice of wording

Once dark docs didn’t need click bait…. Getting worse

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Its not click bait its just clever. Anyone who watches these videos knows there was never a "massive meat grinder" as an actual weapon. Why must we find something to be pissy about at every fucking chance. Just watch the videos or dont but do not act like You were fooled by what you got with Dark Docs.

Yeah, don't start doing clickbait, the minesweeper was not in the video.

Same old story. The Germans beat themselves as usual. No supplies no reinforcements. On and on. The story always the same.

It always amazes and bewilders me that the old Russian WW2 vets are so gung ho about russia, & "for mother russia this" & "for mother russia that" when the russian entity gave 0 shits about the russian people/soldiers. Literally sending them to their deaths in human wave attacks that were so obviously futile just baffles my mind how anyone could be proudly repping that same entity. 🤦🏼‍♂️ And really nothing has changed as far as modern day russia, just look at the war in Ukraine currently, their troops dont even have night vision let alone food! Never mind all the secret police at home and the gulags for petty shit but I digress.

Too loud music , had to stop watching half way

you want something like this these days, isn't it?

in 2023, how the turntables...

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Never watching your videos ever again due to click bait

Glory to Russia 🇷🇺💪

Just tenderize the meat

WTF

Christ have the russians ever fought on the right side of a conflict ever?

balls

I can't stand all the crying about the click bait bullshit. If you don't like it don't watch and leave us that that love dark docs alone

Massive Russian Meat Grinder...wait what century are we in again? 💙💛

more frikkin clickbait!

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IT WASN'T victory at ALL

CLICKBAIT

Poor Ukraine 🇺🇦. Screwed over and over. 😢

Pity the Germans didn't win on the Eastern front

Stop playing up the Russians or are you pro Russian ?

Communists and Fascists' are like cousins that hate each other, but they're still related

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DON'T CALL TAHAT SWASTIKA🤬😡

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