Why Were The Soviets Ineffective in 1941? (ft. Potential History) | Animated History 

Good luck with sorting out the demonetization

Its already demonitized. Rip

@RandomPerson how do you know?

can I downvote this more than one time?

@@robot6654 no ads on the video

RU-vid has been ineffective for alot longer than that.

The employees were purged

I know, this channel, mxr, like 6 other channels getting challenged and demonetized, it's fucked Runaway greedy corporate stooges suppressing what made their platform huge Just want mindless top ten lists and trendy unboxings or bullshit pop/rap videos

That sounds like a job for the Internet Historian

Though keen historians, they are traitors.

They weren't bombing cities at the start of Barbarossa. They were bombing airfields and supply depots.

@@Inquisitor6321 you know what he means

"That guy only punched me in the face so I would start a fight" No dumbass he started a fight

lol

S: "niet cyka"

Zhukov: "Our people are dying by the thousands. It's a slaughter." Stalin: breathing intesifies Zhukov: "What are your orders?" Stalin: "Wait... are we not doing phone sex here?" Zhukov: "No! Listen to the screams and gun fire." Stalin: "Oh god, I'm so close..."

@@eln5343 sussy stalin

Nice fantasy

Well nobody expected that the mightest military nation in the history will fall in 5 weeks

@@petartoshkov2076 Because he was stupid fanatic?

Which might enemy USA ever fought?Third Reich when it already collapsed on Eastern Front?

In late 1941 Hitler was in shock and awe with his army's success he became quite delusional

​@ Agree with you. But the last point I would argue it's like Hitler's biggest gamble. Like he must have concluded "This is it. For everything or nothing!" and there he went to war

RU-vid: *ERROR_404_History_Not_Found*

He needs to keep the word 'war' out of his titles and tags. I think that's what it's about

censor*

@@mrkraffbs9583 Sorry! From the Spanish word "Censura" I got confused.

@@jaztin7197 No worries man I'm just pulling your leg :)

If Stalin did this during the 30s instead of killing his generals admirals and officers the Soviet army coulda been in a better position in the war and coulda inflicted more on the nazis

That’s really interesting

Because he keeps putting ads in his videos while doing the video. That is why RU-vid is fighting him.

Conrad Eiban more like the other way around.

Conrad Eiban you mean sponsors? That’s usually quite acceptable

Not all of them got killed,instead most of them were arrested

Can Tütmez « He didn’t kill all of his officers in a paranoid tantrum, just most of them »

Who didn't tell me they were going to invade??? We did. Who told me their sources were unreliable??? ......

@Auxiliary Stream Services He killed everyone he THOUGHT was trying to kill him, which from his perspective was everyone

@Auxiliary Stream Services I know that there actually WERE people trying to kill him, all I was saying was that he was paranoid and thought EVERYONE wanted him dead.

Kinda like memory holes...

U do know your giving them money by watching ads if you really hated them you would go to a different website

@@cisco8257 I just pay for Premium. No ads.

@@GarrettMerkin lol

You realise this video was posted on RU-vid

>Kills all his officers Zhukov, Rokossovskiy, Katukov, Konyev, Vatutin and a fuckton of others have left the chat.

Its surprising how incompetent this is. He did kill some officers but fact is amount of officers was higher after the purge then before the purge.

@@TheKingpool7 only because they lower down officers were upgraded up. You could go from a captain to a general in the span of a year. For example, i think about 2/3 of the "marshalls of the soviet union " where shot.

King Pool Ah yes, because officers just spring from the ground, more officers doesn’t mean better officers. It just means that the officers are bigger fans of Stalin

@@TheKingpool7 Yea because turning 3 lieutenants into generals definitely > Erwin Rommel.

It be nice to see comments on the actual video tho

@@cisco8257 Sadly, I'm still at work, and they frown on watching videos (I'm sneaking in this comment) but rest assured, once I blow this joint, a thorough viewing will prompt a well placed comment from me.

Ha! This video offends people's safe spaces though so it needs to be demonetized or out right banned.

It's probably hidden on the algorithm because it uses the word "bad". Meaning that someone doesn't think something is good and might offend someone with a differing opinion. It's absolutely ridiculous.

You tube is more into promoting porn industry. Shame on you tube.

Stalin: No u

Malaysian Mapper no, we

poliestotico no, us

yes

John Ratican lol YT actively demonetizes commie YT channels.

Although French tanks were usually superior to German tanks.

@@jaysinha0 😂😂😂lol

I was waiting for him to say he was snoring looool

Yes.

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@@Rao54168 Your eyes must be really dry and sore after laughing and crying so much.

These big corporations are happy to profit off of war, but when it comes to educating the public about the horrors of war they suddenly start to worry. The sad reality is that RU-vid wants an audience of mindless consumers and nothing else.

reporting your offensive comment for saying mindless ! jokes :)

reporting your comment for sensationalistic effect.

reporting your comment for reporting.

People that comment on RU-vid"censorship" are fucking retards

Soviets in 1991:💀

@@Mabbdaacope communism is rising

@@Mabbdaaalso Soviets in 1991: a just let a LITTLE bit of nationalism

​@@MabbdaaIf we talk about military power, then even in 1991 the USSR would be of any country in 2024, except probably the USA, Russia and China

So yeah, Google is an extremely powerful and unethical company. I try to do what I can to get away from their toxic company and not buy from them anymore if I can help it.

The algorithm, from what I understand, is built with Machine Learning. That means they don't exactly "program" it per se, as in tell it exactly what to censor or flag, rather they teach it what to flag or censor. They feed it a ton of data saying "this is good" and "this is bad", the machine learns this and tries to establish patterns. This is faulty of course, and in the present is very far from being an effective technology, hence why self driving cars are still many decades away.

@@TheDirtysouthfan They are actually spending a lot of money on AI systems, like AlphaGo.

Yup. That's google for ya. Living in their silicone valley bubble.

@EmperorJuliusCaesar Nah dude Adam caught your ass

SwissCheese more like : the Russians learnt from their mistakes. The Germans didn’t.

@@agentc7020 they did though, by 1944/45 their anti-Soviet tactics had improved massively

Omar سلوم not really by 44/45 the Russians were unstoppable so they didn’t learn from their mistakes, they tried other things that also failed

@@agentc7020 yes the Soviets were unstoppable, but no amount of skill on the German side could have changed it at that point, so that's not an indicator of their tactics against the red army.

cesar febres you mean the perfect russian tactic of sending more soldiers in war then the germans got bullets? Yeah pretty damn strategly. Allies did the same tactic on D-Day. Worked out well.

He deserted

I heard that he was one of the "ss'ians" (army of people in russia baltics and other states but it was made by germans and they also had to kill jews and ro what hitler wanted) and he was afraid for his life because tommorow there was a fight and the man was a youngling and he thought that soviets would help him or something

According to a Russian documentary, he was a sapper and was a secret communist.

@@someonedraws4208 *Thank you mr helpful*

His name was Alfred Luskow.

you haven't seen the worse of it, 10/December is around the corner and the "Silly-Cone[Head] Valley" is irretrievably eager to impose total far-leftist-Berkeleyan conformity, ironically brought to you by international-mega corporations. ( remember all the anti-corporationey corporation screeds during the Occupy days? --being consistently inconsistent is now the new normal)

It's almost like giant media conglomerates are trying to control everything you see and hear. Pfft nah that's just conspiracy talk

@@Jonesyful10 what do you mean by "deus ex(1) predicted the future" not again!

They don't want you to learn about history....

I agree the radical left is the only group powerfull enough who is currently engaged in a totalitarian rewritting of history

to do Stalin knew that Hitler will attack USSR and Stalin was also preparing for the incoming war

@@Eclipselfish He was, that's why Hitler attacked so early while the Soviets weren't ready. It's just that when Hitler attacked Stalin wasn't anywhere near prepared so he had a bit of a mental breakdown.

to do lol and why then did Stalin pushed the borders with Finland and annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? He also concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler and secured this with a pact on the division of Poland. Not because Stalin was an invader and he needed Poland, but in order to secure the western front and gain time in order to better prepare. Stalin was already ready, just stop believing in the propoganda that rewrites history

@@Eclipselfish He conquered other countries because he was trying to spread Communism and his own power, because that's the ultimate goal of Communism, world domination. Stalin ordered his soldiers to not fire back since he thought Hitler was just trying to provoke him and locked himself away for days after the invasion started. The army might have been somewhat mobilized, but even then the T34 production was still pretty low and most equipment in general(Tanks/Planes/Artillery) was pretty old and outdated and the army was untrained and inexperienced, which is why the Germans managed to push them so far back. Stalin on the other hand was obviously absolutely caught off guard when Hitler attacked him and reacted in pretty much the worst way possible.

to do lol and why then did Stalin pushed the borders with Finland and annexed Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania? He also concluded a non-aggression pact with Hitler and secured this with a pact on the division of Poland. Not because Stalin was an invader and he needed Poland, but in order to secure the western front and gain time in order to better prepare. Stalin was already ready, just stop believing in the propoganda that rewrites history. Also the official position of the Russia is that the accession of the Baltic countries to the USSR did not contradict the norms of international law as of 1940, and also that the accession of these countries to the USSR received official international recognition. This position is based on the de facto recognition of the integrity of the borders of the USSR as of June 1941 at the Yalta (1945) and Potsdam conferences (1945) by the participating states. You wrote nonsense about the troops not shooting at the Germans. Do you even understand that this is complete nonsense? The main forces of the Soviet Union army were in Siberia, in the middle of the country, since on the other hand, Japan could attack from the east and there were no allies from the east. Hitler also began to make his plan for the quick capture of the Soviet Union "blitzkrieg". So the troops of the Soviet Union simply did not have time to redeploy. HAHAHAH u r so low brain Jesus... You humiliate Stalin that he did not prepare anything, but Germany was a capitalist country for that and at the moment, and it had more money for production. The USSR is a country of workers and peasants. After the revolution, they had nothing - emptiness. In the periods of 29-41, the country was industrialized, villages turned into large cities. The country was still at that time, not because Stalin wanted it that way, but because such a country went to it. At the time of 43 years, the level of production of the USSR was the same as in Germany. In the period 41-42 years, 6 and a half thousand T34 tanks were produced, and Germany in the period 41-42 years produced only 1.3 thousand vehicles. After the war, the T34 was recognized by many experts as the best tank of the Second World War.

Meanwhile Turkish, Japanese, and CCP: what accurate history

John D. If a wall is meant to keep people out, is it’s purpose fulfilled if the people can just go around it?

zztimelapsezz the issue isn’t that they went around it but that French command was incompetent and elected to abandon the fortifications

@@zztimelapsezz The argument I often hear is that the French made a mistake in focusing on the Maginot Line. The Maginot Line kept the Germans from crossing the Maginot Line, and forced them to go around it. Thus forcing them to attack on a very narrow front. The issue wasn't that the Maginot Line was built. The issue was that the French didn't have significant forces defending the Ardennes. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that the French should have built the Maginot Line all the way to the sea, behind Belgium. The Maginot Line freed up enough forces to defend the entire northeastern border, but the French commanders used those forces incompetently.

Their failure was in either not including a northern line or maintaining good relations with Belgium

@@deriznohappehquite true but if they did that it would be as far as I saw in Hoi4 it would show a diplomatic issues with belgum that they would not be trusted with defence etc and some other issues with that.

More like: Hitler 1941: BLITZKRIEG!! Stalin 1943: REVERSE CARD!! Stalin 1945: WILD DRAW FOUR!!!

After the Soviets initial losses, the Red Army was able to replace its equipment losses, and it learned from the Blitzkrieg tactics from the Germans and how to defeat them. Soviet spies in Japan had also told Stalin that the Japanese had no designs for war with them and were able to bring fresh divisions from the East for the defense of Moscow.

@@wwvvvvvww Hitler managed to play a card in 1942 and surprise Stalin again by attacking south instead of center.

@@Nikkimond Yeah, but the operation was a fail

@@_Abjuranax_ Another thing the Nazis over extended their supply lines and were ill equip for cold weather warfare.

its because It criticizes comrade Stalin!

@@bing4126 because most of his rethoric is based on nazi Propaganda narrative. The Soviets weren't prepared in the begging but destroy the Germans 2 years later.

@@jonathand3842 It's not based on nazi propaganda, it's based on the reality that the soviets weren't ready for war with Germany... yet.

That is truly great to hear. Allways good when generations respect each other.

I think history has created a myth about the purges though, Marshall did very simular things to the US generals, threw out the old ones and brought in new guys.

@@Minuz1 Marshall?

@@catholicdad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall Mostly known for "Marshall Plan" He's pratically THE guy who made the US armed forces in WW2.

TheWersum still got raped tho

That's fascism for ya

Top one anime betrayals. Number one won't surprise you at all

Stalin predicted that war between them would happen in 10 year's

Can't blame the guy for his trust issues.

Stalin didn't trust Hitler he just overestimated him and didn't expect him to be idiotic enough to start a war with the USSR whilst he was still at war with the Western powers, Stalin was hoping Hitler would destroy the west leaving Stalin with one easy target.

soooo happy I let it play til then lol

LOL😂😂😂

Well Hitler attacked 1st and declared war later but I get what you're saying. 😅

“I’m breaking up with you.” “Nah.” “You can’t ‘nah’ me any more. How does it feel to be single?” “I really wouldn’t know.” “LET ME BREAK UP WITH YOU!” “Nah.”

Yes

Indeed

The more history vids I watch, the more I itch for HOI4

i always use console commands so that hitler wins

@@dookiejuju192 r/IamVeryEdgy

Yes!

There is not enough content to make a video on that. India just intervened and captured Pakistani soldiers without warning. Pakistani and Indians wars are too small scale in general. An interesting video would be China vs India 1962.

The Sino-Indian war of 1962 will be an interesting video too!

Yes please. Indian wars are severely underrated in spite of their effects and influence.

Pakistan Zindabad India Murdabad is what I always say!

It wont. All history channels are being smoked.

I think that's a worthy follow up to this video.

They were so effective because of the huge population and Americas lend lease literally funding the soviets war...

@@seancascanet3428 I respectfully disagree, I think that due the the size of the Red Army, the Americans would've had to use most of their industry towards the Soviets ALONE, to influence it that much, however they did something MUCH MORE important, and that was to supply the Soviets with.... information! Yes every single major Soviet offensive after 1943 was based off Intel gathered by USA or UK, when to attack, where to attack, enemy troop movements, well everything, don't you agree that Intel/Information was much more important than Lend Lease?

@@Gabriel-sdf yeah the real reason the allies won ww2 British broke the german code US broke Japans Code US and UK gave Russia information on germans due to code breaking Otherwise the war would have lasted longer and been way bloodier

Gabriel Soares The Intel was of course very important but without the lend lease agreement, the Russians wouldn't be able to put the information to use. The US sent Russia over a half million trucks and tracked vehicles and Britain sent a considerable amount also, so the Russians could make the push. The US sent 2000 locomotives and 11,000 boxcars along with the trucks to better transport troops and supplies. Most don't consider the fact that for every man with a rifle, it takes 10 men in support to make him effective. Without good troop transportation and the ability to constantly resupply the men with the rifles, the best fighting men in the world would be hard pressed to win on a major front. The Germans lack of resupply and the Russians growing ability to quickly resupply was a major factor in the defeat of Germany.

not if everything is going at once

It's because youtube is going woke and woke doesnt agree with history that isnt happy happy good times... woke isnt on board with anyone knowing any history period. Like history??? *you damn racist*

@@christopherdickinson4291 Sad, but True.

@@christopherdickinson4291 can't really feel bad for him when there are alternative sites that he refuses to use. If everyone that complained about RU-vid just uploaded on RU-vid and over there then it wouldn't be a problem

@@mpforeverunlimited he since has began his own site, but I think his willingness to stay here is due to us not moving away from RU-vid. The vast majority of online video seekers for anything end up here.

There is several conspiracy's behind this. Some of them might be true. I hear on the underground that the left (which youtube is controlled by) wants the history of WWII to be atleast partially shut out because it points to a positive message of masculinity and american triumph, and they want people to feel bad about WWII even though it accomplished the greatest peace in world history. I should make this a stand alone comment.

@Ordinary Sessel you mean the same pact that whole europo had with hitler, even poland had non aggression pact in 1932 with nazi germany, then in 1938 poland invaded czech slovakia and took their land. speaking of hypocrise, but nobody talks about that tho.

@Ordinary Sessel of course soviet union rather had it under their sphere of influence then nazi, britisch or french. it is not all that simple, russia has been invaded plenty of times by western nations, so it was in their interest to secure those countries. and again nobody has a problem with poland taking a part of czech slovakia when nazi germany invaded it, nobody had problems when united states were doing busniss with nazi germany, everbody was shady.

@@MrStolboy cheeky try to make NAZI Germany (holocaust, mass murder on industrial scale, war without declaration of war, suppression of Jews, Sinti, homosexuals, etc) look less bad, comparing to other countries...but it's not true.

@@R0ZEN7 it was taking that part of poland or leaving it to nazi germany, what would make them even closer to the soviet borders.

@@R0ZEN7 Yeah gtfo with your conspiracy bullshit

Close enough, but not exactly. 'Teafucker' would be ЧАЕЕБ. Also, this is hate speech against the British :P

It have to be "Чапаев"

This video just went from a 9 to a 10

and we have our reason for demonetization

@@aenelle7370 calling a British person a tea fucker does not offend them 😂😂😂😂😂

a bit irritating IMO

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It was sarcasm?

@@yakovgrynewicz4394 yup

Trash I rep the germans

RU-vid serves Socialist and Communist ideologies.

I guess you would know Heinz. Nice username.

well, germany is a way wealthier country and a much better place to live than russia.... so yeah.. i guess they do laugh the best.

Take Minakata agree 😂

@ a small dong

@@BatCostumeGuy Stalin unleashed his big one on germany in , 45

@@boriszawotski1392 a big shot but a small dong

Low IQ huh

Главное не смотреть такие видео, а читать нормальную историческую литературу.

Никому не интересно слушать про победы СССР. Это противоречит идее - советское значит плохое

Where the hell are you, Simon??

Because Georgy Zhukov actually knew what he was doing

Communism

@@namesurname-1488 Zhukov

I thought that was a pun. Lol

Why was France and the UK so ineffective in 1940? Not Stalin.

Actually it was. It alowed USSR to prepare to upcoming war. Here is list of events wich led to WW2 ( en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement#Resolution ). As you can see there Molotov - Ribentrop pact is last one. British Royal house was flirting with Nazi Germany, which is put USSR into corner.

Stalin was honoring the pact. Stalin didn't think the Germans weren't going to attack the USSR until England was defeated. For Hitler. The non agression pact was a means to an end. The pact served it's purpose while France was beaten and England was all alone. It was time for the Soviet Union to fall.

@@DiMas-kt8jk 23 August 1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 11 February 1940 - German-Soviet Commercial Agreement (supplies from USSR were essential for Nazi Germany military) 25 November 1940 - Stalin sent proposal to join Axis powers. He is ignored. USSR was not "in the corner". Stalin deeply believed he can rule Europe alongside Hitler.

@@MD-iw2vt so what? Give me same list of agreement between germany and poland, england and usa. German-Polish Non agression pact January 26, 1934 was signed earlier than molotv pact. And Poland at that time was considered by soviet goverment as the biger threat due to strong British influence in the goverment. And you should understand that main idea of bolshevik revolution was to unite working class people in the whole world by removing capitalistic elites. Ofcourse country with such ideology gona find itself surounded by enemies. Also keep in mind that example of Octobre revolution in Russia inspired a lot of working people all over the world to start movements for social justice for working class people, which is deffenetly dangerouse for one whose profiting from current state of society. Basicly what I am trying to say. In situation when you are surrounded by hungry lions, maybe hiena is a good ally. There is not so much options to choose from

@@DiMas-kt8jk maybe you give this list hmm? If you deny his facts then show it.

Which inappropriate content, though?

A. Musthofa history.

@@ryanmurray7941 In a community post yesterday, Griffin said he wasn't going to take this video down.

@@ryanmurray7941 I see. Sorry, mate. Didn't realize it was sarcasm.

I think is something about the things he said during the sponsorship.

aad piraat jokes on you, im at gulag 5 days a week for 8 hours.

This is just objectively wrong, and reeks of Stalinist revisionism. Instead of going after the old school and outdated officers, he actively promoted them and went after the more modern thinking ones. See Tukhachevsky and Budyonny for evidence. And even if we give Stalin the benefit of the doubt, which we shouldn’t, how is shooting your supposedly incompetent officers and replacing them with inexperienced ones any better? That’s the very definition of taking one step forward and two steps backwards. Not to mention the gross inhumanity of shooting someone for the crime of not meeting your arbitrary, and ultimately incorrect, ideas of military efficiency.

@@jackparker8602 that's the thing about history - you would never understand why someone did this and that if you look through glasses of hate or adoration. One of my history professors told me that at the start of his class - you gotta let go all of your previous believes and try to be as objective as you can. I wasn't pushing any agenda, just offered another point of view, even if I do believe it's more accurate About his policies - it was one of the angles his was playing, but not the only one. Army is a force to be reconed with, even in normal countries, but there, in the early SU - it was a real threat. Even if those officers were the best in the world, literally genius commander's and tactician's - the fact that they were disloyal to the regime was all it took to reduce their value to none. They could defect, they could stage a coup, all kinds of harmful things could come of this. Look up Vlasov, it perfectly illustrates dangers of those kinds in an army. A loyal officer would be better simply because he's loyal, even when he's less experienced. About moral side of this - you can condemn him as much as you want, and you will be in the right, most of the time. But, I couldn't think of anyone who would do better job. Doesn't mean he's done great, it's just every time I imagine later SU leader's in Stalin shoes - it would have been a disaster, on a whole different scale. None of them could have done the 1/3 of his accomplishments, none would be able to stand up to the same challenges. As much as I would try - I simply can't deny him that. And I can't deny him responsibility for his crimes, either. I just hate when people go out of their way to paint him evil and bad, to an extent of misinformation and flat out lies. He has enough dirt on him, there's no need for that

In an effort to prevent *b i g c o c k*

Stalin: we must prevent BIG COCK at all costs

This definitely needs more likes

It's "Чапаев" ffs

Thats all game one team has tryhards other glue sniffers