Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "Why You NEED to Think Critically | Suvorov and Keitel's "Preemptive Strike" 1941 Idea" video.

  1.  @impalabeeper  It was best practice at the time. The British also preferred bayonet charges to protracted firefights.
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  2. There is absolutely none.
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  3. I'd hope people would not waste their time on this worthless book, unless they're professionally interested in the psychology of Soviet defectors
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  4. This is so. Hitler attacked Poland because Poland refused to to side with him against the Soviet Union.
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  5.  @kaletovhangar  He dictated them posthumously. They were literally ghost - written.
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  6.  @ВалБал-н3й  It is the case that most of the officers imprisoned after the military purge had been released and reinstated before Barbarossa. Not that this should surprise us because A. Most Gulag prisoners were amnestied after a year or two. B. The Soviet Union was rapidly expanding its army and needed officers.
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  7. Perhaps he means in September 1944.
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  8. That is so. Suvorov's nonsense should be seen in the context both of US Cold War propaganda and Soviet ignorance about the outside world.
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  9. The USA would not permit Germany to buy any oil on The American Continent. The Russians were delivering oil but expected to be paid for it, either in cash or in political concessions. Hitler thought it was easier to steal the oil than buy it.
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