Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "Did the Soviet Union win WW2 alone?" video.

@Dionysus784 The USSR was not crushed by 1943 SOLELY because of the support given to it by the western allies. Even Stalin thanked the west for their invaluable aid.... If only you'd takn notice of us in early 1941, you'd have been prepared for the launch of Barbarossa... but no, as ever the lefties think they ALWAYS know best.
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"With a little help of western allies"? Without the continued opposition of the British empire to nazism from June 1940 onwards (when the USSR was still a willing ally of nazi Germany), opposition which bankrupted the UK and cost her 460,000 of her citizen's lives, there would have been: NO D-Day and war in the Meditteranean to draw sizeable wehrmacht resources from the war on the Eastern Front. NO strategic bombing of German cities and war industries, which even Albert Speer stated constituted a complete "second front" for Germany from 1942 onwards with regards to the demands for materiel and manpower with which to defend the reich. NO interdiction of German global sea trade by the Royal Navy. NO massive supply of weapons and war materiel from the west to the USSR, once their former allies nazi Germany had turned on them. NO utterly crucial strategic intelligence courtesy of Britain's (not Poland's before you say it) "ULTRA" program. With the result that the USSR would have collapsed somewhere in 1942/43, leaving the nazis in control of the whole of Europe. Without the western Allies the USSR would have only existed to the east of the Ural mountains and their society would have been sent back to the stone age by 1943.
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@Dionysus784 None of which negates the points I made above. All those points I made above bolstered the USSR and hampered nazi Germany, and had they not done so Germany would have crushed the USSR by 1943.
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Without the continued opposition of the British empire to nazism from June 1940 onwards (when the USSR was still a willing ally of nazi Germany), opposition which bankrupted the UK and cost her 460,000 of her citizen's lives, there would have been: NO D-Day and war in the Meditteranean to draw sizeable wehrmacht resources from the war on the Eastern Front. NO strategic bombing of German cities and war industries, which even Albert Speer stated constituted a complete "second front" for Germany from 1942 onwards with regards to the demands for materiel and manpower with which to defend the reich. NO interdiction of German global sea trade by the Royal Navy. NO massive supply of weapons and war materiel from the west to the USSR, once their former allies nazi Germany had turned on them. NO utterly crucial strategic intelligence courtesy of Britain's (not Poland's before you say it) "ULTRA" program. With the result that the USSR would have collapsed somewhere in 1942/43, leaving the nazis in control of the whole of Europe. Without the western Allies the USSR would have only existed to the east of the Ural mountains and their society would have been sent back to the stone age by 1943.
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Meanwhile neatly sidestepping some VERY important facts. Without the continued opposition of the British empire to nazism from June 1940 onwards, there would have been: NO D-Day and war in the Meditteranean to draw sizeable wehrmacht resources from the war on the Eastern Front. NO strategic bombing of German cities and war industries. NO interdiction of German global sea trade by the Royal Navy. NO massive supply of weapons and war materiel from the west to the USSR, once their former allies nazi Germany had turned on them. NO utterly crucial strategic intelligence courtesy of Britain's (not Poland's before you say it) "ULTRA" program. With the result that the USSR would have collapsed somewhere in 1942/43, leaving the nazis in control of the whole of Europe. What was that about the soviets winning the war "alone"?
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Without the continued opposition of the British empire to nazism from June 1940 onwards, there would have been: NO D-Day and war in the Meditteranean to draw sizeable wehrmacht resources from the war on the Eastern Front. NO strategic bombing of German cities and war industries. NO interdiction of German global sea trade by the Royal Navy. NO massive supply of weapons and war materiel from the west to the USSR, once their former allies nazi Germany had turned on them. NO utterly crucial strategic intelligence courtesy of Britain's (not Poland's before you say it) "ULTRA" program. With the result that the USSR would have collapsed somewhere in 1942/43, leaving the nazis in control of the whole of Europe.
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Its not the "soviets" that "tik" is rebutting , but the contemporary LEGIONS of entralled lefty uninformed childish parrots who constantly decry the West's part in the destruction of nazi Germany.
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Without the continued opposition of the British empire to nazism from June 1940 onwards, there would have been: NO D-Day and war in the Meditteranean to draw sizeable wehrmacht resources from the war on the Eastern Front. NO strategic bombing of German cities and war industries NO interdiction of German global sea trade by the Royal Navy NO massive supply of weapons and war materiel from the west to the USSR, once their former allies nazi Germany had turned on them. NO utterly crucial strategic intelligence courtesy of Britain's (not Poland's before you say it) "ULTRA" program. With the result that the USSR would have collapsed somewhere in 1942/43, leaving the nazis in control of the whole of Europe, and their extermination camps still operating on Polish soil into the 1950s, 60s, or even 70s.
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BS.
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@Cloud_Seeker Absolutely. Without the continued opposition of the British empire to nazism from June 1940 onwards, there would have been: NO D-Day and war in the Meditteranean to draw sizeable wehrmacht resources from the war on the Eastern Front. NO strategic bombing of German cities and war industries. NO interdiction of German global sea trade by the Royal Navy. NO massive supply of weapons and war materiel from the west to the USSR, once their former allies nazi Germany had turned on them. NO BRITISH atomic research (Tube Alloys) being passed to the US to kickstart the "Manhattan project", (with the potential for said research to fall into the hands of the nazis) NO utterly crucial strategic intelligence courtesy of Britain's "ULTRA" program. With the result that the USSR would have collapsed somewhere in 1942/43, leaving the nazis in control of the whole of Europe, and potentially the US isolated, and who knows what would happen from there?
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Why would they lie?
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And all made possible by the British empire.
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As many have been saying for decades the slide in educational standards since the 1960s was all done for a reason. NO ruling caste wants a well educated population with the facility of independent thought.
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@heartsofiron4ever Who says the bombing of industry was "largely ineffective"? Albert Speer (who knew more about the situation than contemporary lefty commentators) told Hitler after "Operation Millenium" (the bombing of Cologne in May 1942) that If the allies were able to launch 6 more raids of that scale in quick succession then the Germans would be forced out of the war. "Ineffective" eh? What allied bombing accomplished was substantial in contributing to Germany’s defeat. The Anglo-American bombing offensive brought the war to the German people long before their armies were forced back onto German soil. In a war in which the effort of civilian workers on the production lines was as essential to victory as the fighting of the soldiers on the front lines, the very existence of the strategic bombing offensive encouraged US and British civilians and inflicted pain and suffering on the enemy. The British may have devoted 40 to 50 percent of their total war production to the air forces; the United States expended up to 35 percent; and the Germans up to 40 percent. German war production increased throughout the war, reaching its peak in the third quarter of 1944. Strategic air bombardment beyond ANY doubt kept that production increase from reaching stratospheric levels. It forced the dispersion of factories and the building of underground facilities, made German production more vulnerable to transportation disruption, lowered production by forcing on German industry smaller, more labor-intensive, production facilities that denied the Germans the manufacturing economies of scale available to the allies, it disorganized workers’ lives, and lowered their productivity. In ways great and small and utterly incalculable strategic bombing made German war production less efficient and effective than it would have been if the bombers had not flown night after night and day after day. Strategic bombing also forced the Germans into an enormous defense and reconstruction effort, diverting German aircraft manufacture almost exclusively into fighter and interceptor production. The bombing of oil not only limited mobility, but as a side effect greatly reduced nitrogen production, hampering the manufacture of explosives and fertilizers. By 1944, Germany had two million soldiers, civilians, and prisoners of war engaged in Reich antiaircraft defense, more than the total number of workers in its aircraft industry. And on any given day or night, most of this huge force, spread across the length & breadth of Germany to defend all targets, stood idle, while the Allied bombers struck only a relatively few areas. An additional million workers were engaged in repair and rebuilding; the maintenance of the nazi oil industry alone (used for the rebuilding of oil production facilities NOT the actual oil production effort itself) absorbed 250,000 workers. Albert Speer estimated that 30 percent of total gun output and 20 percent of heavy ammunition output was directed towards air defense, a significant loss to the front line ground forces of high velocity weapons suitable for antitank defense. It took an average of 16,000 88 mm flak shells to bring down a single Allied heavy bomber. Speer further estimated that 50 percent of electro-technical production and one-third of the optical industry was devoted to radar and signals equipment for the antiaircraft effort, further starving the front lines of essential communications equipment.
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@heartsofiron4ever The bombing of civilians was something that had been instigated by the nazis since before WW2 had begun, why do you imagine that the allies would be so squeamish about "returning the favour"? Murderous for certain, but so were the concurrent nazi policies across occupied Europe. Do you suppose we should have toppled them by dropping bunches of tulips across Germany?
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"could British Empire and USA even scratch Nazi Germany" Head over to any video chronicling the western allies strategic bombing campaign to reference just how nazi Germany was being "scratched".
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As well as the soviets supplying the third reich with millions of tons of food & raw materials & oil right up until June 1941, to enable the Wehrmacht to take on the west. Unfortunately for Uncle Joe, his gamble that Germany would be bled to death by a war in the west backfired.
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