Comments by "Kameraden" (@Alte.Kameraden) on "June 22, 1941. The Day The Soviet Union Got Sucked Into The World War Two #WW2" video.

  1. Soviet Union was already in WWII. They invaded Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Issue was, they were technically on the opposite side prior to June of 1941. 2:33 Also WWII makes a lot of sense when you look at it as the first Resource/Oil War. Every stupid decision in the war were often made because of resource shortages that one of the major parties were suffering under. But there is a secret. They could of traded for those resources yes? But.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQGMjDQ-TJ8 < This video explains it perfectly. TIK is just wonderful. < BTW he also did a follow up video for this video called "Why they don't tell you about Hitler's "Shrinking Markets" problem"
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  2.  Mike Schwinn  Ideological excuse is just an excuse. Hitler had always planned to invade the Soviet Union, and it was almost entirely for the sake of resources. He wanted to create Autarky, and the USSR had what he wanted. His obsession with Autarky lead Germany to economic ruin by 1938, which is entirely why he Annexed Austria, almost started war over Czechoslovakia, invaded Poland, and eventually Invaded the Soviet Union, the whole time literally on the verge of running out of valued resources including oil. For example when they invaded the Soviet Union, Germany only had a few months of operational fuel left, and they only had around 20 motorized/armored divisions out of like 130 over all divisions, and to achieve that a vast majority of the German Army had no motorized transit at all. It was so horrible that by 1942 the 6th Army literally had to leave some of it's motorized/mechanized battalions behind, as they didn't have the fuel for the few motorized/mechanized Divisions they had in the 6th Army. The German Army in WWII was always few weeks away from being completely out of fuel. The USSR's failure in Finland gave them an excuse, a reason to think they could pull it off, and their goal was always to get Russia's Oil. Getting red of the REDs was just a bonus.
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  3.  @TheAsheybabe89  State spending doesn't equal growth. Look up the Socialist Economic Calculation Fallacy. Which dictates that it's impossible to calculate how healthy a socialist economy is, as it doesn't operate under profit, injecting money into the economy doesn't make the economy stronger. Being that most of the money the Nazis were spending was in the military as well, most of those spread sheet numbers was just going back tot he state, not to the people, so the economy was never healthy under the regime in spite of how pretty those numbers were on paper. Being prices in Nazi Germany were fixed by the state, resources were purchased regardless of price from foreign countries, and material for factories were provided by the state at prices the state demanded, there was no real market, no proper exchange of goods/services that could be calculated with cash/credit to make any possible assessment on how healthy the German economy was under Nazi Germany. This is why they were going bankrupt by 1938 in spite looking healthy on paper. Why Hitler pushed for aggressive expansion in spite their Army/Navy build up programs being slated to be finished by 1945, ie he was jumping the gun because they had no choice anymore, either go to war or face humiliation as the nation collapses from economic failures of the Party itself. It's the same reason the USSR collapsed out of the blue in with even the CIA being caught unaware. Supposedly being a paradise on Earth touted by Socialist for decades leading up to it's collapse that some how provided great luxury to it's citizens who couldn't even find food on the store shelves despite what "NUMBERS" on a spread sheet said. Those numbers were never right, and because the USSR suffered horrific inflation + price/wage fixes instituted by the state, it masked how unhealthy the economy actually was, which is exactly what happened to Nazi Germany. Excessive state spending, combined with state price fixes, wage fixes, regulation, massive inflation which the Nazis masked with MEFO bills, yes they created a fake currency so they could appropriate cash from it's citizens so it could spend more, it was a dramatic attempt to limit inflation. After Hitler's fired Schact just about the only guy keeping their economy afloat ie even came up with the MEFO bill plan, it utterly fell apart rapidly. Issue is Socialist economic calculation looks good only on a Spread Sheet, but it's all numbers made up by pencil pushers who work for the state using worthless monopoly money that often holds no real value. This is why I make fun of Socialist denialist who praise Nazi Germany's economy, or the Soviet Union's economy as Spread Sheet Warriors.
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