Comments by "Quizmaster China" (@QuizmasterLaw) on "6th Army's Rations at Stalingrad" video.

  1. Mike, I've seen TIK make lots of illogical and unsubstantiated claims like this one: there wasn't mass looting of civilian's food during the stalingrad siege because by the time food shortages mattered there were no civilians left to loot. They were all either dead, evacuated, or serving in the German army. I'm sick of people who lie for Russia claiming to be honest, claiming to be factual and then doing obvious falsifications.
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  2. sounds like disinformation or rumor; "the first casualty of war is truth".
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  3. Does it seem plausible that people would die suddenly and unexpectedly of scurvy, ricketts, or other diseases involving malnutrition in such a short space of time? No, it does not. In contrast, is it plausible that rumours and exaggerations or outright disinformation explain this tall tale? it is. God, the lack of critical thinking from those who claim to be doing that is appalling.
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  4. And it's like he's never even heard of ice bridges. Idiot, when a river is sufficiently frozen over you can drive trucks over it. See: Leningrad.
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  5. Dear Idiot, how can you simultaneously claim (rather accurately) that there were under 10,000 Stalingradians left in the city and also claim that literally hundreds of thousands of Germans are looting their food (which of course they were not getting). God, you are starting to look really horrible.
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  6. There were no food shortages prior to the encirclement by which time indeed there were just about no civilians left OTHER THAN THE RUSSIANS WHO JOINED THE INVADER'S ARMIES Horible. So yeah, your unsourced and unsubstantiated speculation is illogical. In other word's your historiography is shitty resulting in lousy speculation and is one step short of falsification which believe me I am now watching for.
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  7. Next up! Denying Soviet mass rape in Berlin '45! Newsflash: The prisoners at Stalingrad all died because of USSR vengeance because of nazi war crimes committed at Stalingrad. Sure, already weakened by hunger. And you think the USSR started feeding the captured soldiers, because? They didn't.
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  8. USSR was not a geneva signatory hence not war crimes. Idk if Stalin could have fed 'em. But he didn't. Simple as that.
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  9. No, the geneva convention dates to 1929. Russia was no signatory. Germany was, but the treaty only applied reciprocally. Since UK FR USA were also signatories, geneva applied in the west, not in the east. USSR and Germany were only bound by customary international law, not international conventional law. You're ignorant. Shut up.
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  10. Signature of a treaty creates an international obligation. Enforcement of the obligation in domestic law requires a further step, ratification. USSR never ratified. Furthermore, even if Russia were obligated by Geneva (it wasn't) once Germany systematically violated customary international law w/ the kommissar order and einsatzgruppen Russia was thereby able to lawfully undertake proportional reprisals. Not war crimes. P.s. Nuremburg was post war. Now shut up. You are Also ignorant.
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  11. You make leaps which are possible but not necessarily so - without evidence, which is bad historiography. No doubt, 6th army was starving, no doubt 90% of Stalingrad prisoners "never returned" aka died in prison camps. Likewise this is known to be a much higher rate of prison death. An equally (un)supported inference is "Katyn isn't the only time Stalin ordered a mass execution of prisoners." This is, barring opening of Russian archives (they won't) one of those unknowable questions I pointed out. Expressly or implicitly, the Stalingrad prisoners were to die, whether by starvation, freezing, or shooting. Was it fair? Was it inevitable? More unknowables. It's entirely possible Stalin was in no position to feed them. It is likelier he did not explicitly order them killed because when you are a mass murderer why leave evidence? You have no evidence for what exactly happened. No one does, except maybe the Lenin Library or some archive in the Aquarium. Yet, you leap! Why?
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  12. Yes, clearly I am Goebbels < eyeroll >
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