Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "Henry Stewart History" channel.

  1. SOME german officers expresed their concerns about a war with Russia, and manifested, that the only way of wininng was to turn the invasion into a "civil war" between "red" and "white" russians (there were still some of them around, and a lot of people who hated Iosef could have been convined to switch sides). Soviet terror and purges (and the Holdomor, of course) were still present in peoples memories, and indeed, the soviet authorities aknowledged this, when they relaxed political represion and took away some of the executive powers of the political commisars (who were taken out of the chain of comand, and became mere advisors at a certain point) For a lot of soviet soldiers, their time in the front, was the first oportunity they had in a lot of time (or even the first time) to speak freely about their concerns, and aparently one the phrases that appeared in conversations was :" things have to change after the war". Sadly, when the war progressed, and Stalin got more secure, represion was again reinforced (it never really left, just got more subtle for a certain time), the commisars got their power restored, and the madness of stalinist purges reapeared........ For Adolf, the mere concept of colaborating with slavic people (even temporarely) was anathema. He viewed the war a clash of titans, the final strugle between to races (the slavic and the gremanic) that had to be fought wothout concessions till the end. He was mentally and ideologically unable to make any deal with the invaded soviet citizens......... The only way this could have been achived, is with a change in the German leadership, removing Adolf, and changing him for a more practical Fuehrer, less blinded by racial ideology, and more practical
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