Comments by "Андрей Борцов" (@Mentol_) on "5 Plans That Backfired With Dire Consequences" video.

  1. By the end of the winter war, the Finnish army was deprived of reserves and ammunition. Finland was saved by the fact that the USSR was afraid of Western intervention and agreed to limited territorial concessions.
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  2. In late May 1945, US presidential adviser Harry Hopkins, in a conversation with Stalin, said: "... we never believed that our Lend-Lease assistance was the main factor in the Soviet victory over Hitler on the Eastern Front. It was achieved by the heroism and blood of the Russian army." In the report of the US President to Congress on the implementation of the Lend-Lease program until March 31, 1945, it was pointed out that the Soviet armies were supplied mainly with Soviet weapons and materials. "The Fuhrer again sharply criticizes the General Staff ... The Fuhrer is right in saying ... that Stalin timely carried out this reform [purge of the Red Army Command] and therefore now enjoys its benefits. If such a reform is imposed on us today by our defeats, but then for ultimate success it is too late". (Diary of Goebbels, March 5, 1945). "The General Staff gives me a book with biographical data and portraits of Soviet generals and marshals. From this book, it is not difficult to get various information about what mistakes we made in the past years. These marshals and generals are on average exceptionally young, almost none of them older than 50 years. They are ... extremely energetic people, and on their faces you can read that they have a good people's features... I have to make an unpleasant conclusion that the leaders of the Soviet Union come from better people's layers than our own. I inform the Fuhrer about the General Staff's book on Soviet marshals and generals that was provided to me for review, adding that I had the impression that we are not at all able to compete with such leaders. The Fuhrer fully shares my opinion. Our generals are too old, outlived themselves... which speaks of the colossal superiority of Soviet generalship" - (Diary of Goebbels, March 16, 1945).
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  3. Here are the statistics of the military production of Germany and Britain in 1940: Military aircraft: Germany - 9498, Britain - 9924. Tanks and assault guns: Germany - 1643, Britain - 1397. Artillery guns (75 mm and more): Germany - 5499, Britain - 1872. Artillery shells (million tons): Germany - 27, Britain - 13. Sources. «The Effects of Strategic Bombing on German War Economy», p. 143; см также N. Kaldor. The German War Economy. Manchester, 1946, p. 123; H. Hillman. Comparative Strength of the Great Powers—«Survey of International Affairs. 1939 —1945. The World in March 1929». London, 1952; B. Klein. Germany's Economic Preparations for War. Cambridge, 1959, p. 99.
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  4. I answered not to you, but to your opponent. He said that Britain created more aircraft than Germany. This is true, although not much more. It only says that Britain used more of its resources to build aviation while Germany was forced to use them in other directions. In general, the German economy was approximately equal to English and French together, but without taking into account the colonies.
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  5. Try to name any Soviet law that approves slavery. Try to show also the statsitic in which it is said that the majority of Ukrainians hate the USSR.
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  6. So you have no evidence? Here is a brief list of the achievements of the two revolutions of 1917: - The peasants were given more land. - The working day is reduced from 10.5 hours to 8 hours. - Improvement of the health care system. - The policy of eliminating illiteracy of the population. - Equality of men and women is presented. - Elimination of class privileges. - Separation of church from state. - Cessation of economic exploitation of man by man.
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  7. Hindenburg single-handedly appointed Hitler.
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  8. German industrialists and bankers put a lot of pressure on Hindenburg to give Hitler more power. Chronology: Hindenburg appoints Hitler >> Hitler begins repression against the communists >> the opposition is weakened and Hitler's coalition wins the fictitious elections >> after the death of Hindenburg, Hitler gets unlimited power. Thus, the main motivator was not the fear of Bolshevism, but the defeat in the First World War in which the Lenin government did not take part.
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  9. USSR collaborated with the Weimar Republic. When Hitler came to power, this collaboration ceased.
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  10. The domination in air was captured in 1944, but Germany lost the war in the east before that date. The war in Africa is a peripheral war. The war in Italy also took away less than 40 divisions of the Wehrmacht, so it was not a second front.
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  11. 1. Carefully read Hitler's letter to Mussolini of June 21, 1941. He says that the loss of Africa will not be critical for the Axis. 2. If you consider that one theater = one front, then the eastern theater contained seven fronts: - war in the air in Finland. - the war in the air over Russia. - Baltic Sea. - Black Sea. - land war in Finland. - land war in Russia. - guerrilla war. Absurd? Yes. So just remember that Germany had one land front in Europe until the autumn of 1943. But even after the landing in Italy, this front was not the second because it distracted less than 40 German divisions.
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