Comments by "Fredinno" (@innosam123) on "" video.

  1. Russia’s demography is only ‘terminal’ compared to a more sustainable birth rate. However, basically all of Eastern Europe has worse demographic situations (with the exception of Poland and Hungary, you also have to add emigration to the mix). Russia has lost many people, but it’s nothing compared to the EU-aligned nations, which have lost people to Western Europe as workers, or Ukraine, which has lost them as refugees.
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  2. Why is Putin so unwilling to go into full War Economy? Will it fire its Northern Commander, who seems to be the most incompetent?
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  3.  @advisorynotice  Thing is that the ‘core’ of the USSR was Russia (plus Eastern Ukraine), so this still applies. The Russians have been able to mobilize against the Poles, also their Slavic brothers. Also, Russia is not as ethnonationalistic as you think. The USSR crushed Slavic Nationalism. There is practically no ethnonationalism in the upper ranks of the Russian state.
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  4.  @advisorynotice  But it was Russia that held the Germans off in the critical years of 1941-1943. Proportionally, Ukraine lost the most, but mostly because it was occupied by the Germans and a battleground in the East for half of the war. The situation simply isn’t comparable. Russia (not really Central Asia - even Kazakhstan was more agricultural than the Slavic parts of the Soviet Union) had to pick up the pieces after losing Belarus, the Baltics, and Ukraine. At the time, that was over 1/3rd of the Russian economy. Also, Kazakhs ended up becoming a minority in their own country as a result of the push of industry and agriculture to the region. The people actually working in the factories sent East were Russians, not Kazakhs. And of those, most of the industry went to the Russian-dominated North Kazakhstan, not the Turkic South. Lend Lease played a huge role- but it were not Americans pushing the Germans out of Kursk. Even if you assume offensive operations would have been impossible without lend-lease due to a lack of trucks, aviation fuel, and ammo, in 1943, 4/5ths of all German divisions were in the East. Only in 1944 did the Western Front become a serious priority in terms of numbers for the Germans- and the most elite formations were also in the East.
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  5.  @danielschwarze781  That’s what happens when you start a war with no preparation or immediate justification.
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