Comments by "Андрей Борцов" (@Mentol_) on "War Stories" channel.

@viljamikoivunen6297 The Molotov Pact did not contain an agreement on the creation of an alliance. It is a myth. An attempt to form an alliance ended in failure in negotiations in November 1940. In addition, the “spheres of influence” in the secret protocol did not contain a plan for military operations against other countries. Soviet operations were motivated for a different reason.
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The population of Germany within the borders of 1940 is 109 million people. The population of the USA is 132 million. The claim that the United States had 4 times more powerful industry is questionable. How did you calculate? For example, the number of machine tools. Germany - 1.7 million (1938). USA - 827 thousand (1940). Germany had fewer natural resources than the United States and less labor. This limited its industry. But nevertheless, Germany produced more aluminum than the United States.
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@JackeyBoyyy Germany's industrial potential was greater than that of the USSR. You can verify this by looking at the statistics. Park of industrial machines. USSR - 710,000 (1941). Germany - 1,707,000 (1938). Data on the industrial potential of the USSR and Germany in 1939. Steel (million tons). Germany - 22.3, USSR - 17.6; Cast iron (million tons). Germany - 19.7, USSR - 14.5; Coal (million tons). Germany - 233.7, USSR - 146.2; Electricity (billion kW / h). Germany - 66.3, USSR - 43.3. When you compare, for example, the production of tanks and aircraft in the USSR and Germany as an argument for Soviet industrial superiority, do not forget that the USSR reduced the production of equipment for the navy and other industrial sectors and focused on providing the army and air force. At this time, Germany produced a larger range of military and industrial products. For example, Germany produced 6,200 tanks and assault guns in 1942, and the USSR produced 24,400. But this year the USSR produced 15 ships, and Germany 241. In 1942, the USSR produced 23,000 industrial machines, and Germany 290,000. The USSR did not mass-produce armored personnel carriers, but Germany did. In 1942, the USSR produced only 9 steam locomotives, and Germany produced 2,637. Germany had weak points in the economy in the form of the amount of fuel, but the USSR also had them in the form of the production of aluminum and gunpowder. Germany had a problem not with the strength of its potential, but with the rationalization of military production. The USSR, having fewer main resources, produced more military products because they were cheaper and had fewer types. Germany rationalized production throughout the war and in 1944 it reached parity in military production compared to the USSR and, of course, was ahead of it in the production of other products, while being under the influence of allied aviation. That's why I say that the German potential was higher than the Soviet one.
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@Crashed131963 At that time, the 3rd Reich was called the Great German Empire. It included old Germany within the borders of 1937 + Austria + Czechoslovakia + half of Poland + part of France and Belgium + Luxembourg (since 1942) + part of Yugoslavia. The total population of the 3rd Reich in mid-1940, according to the German atlas, was: 109,510,183 people. Of these, new Germany - 90 million, Czech protectorate - 7.4 million, Polish governorate - 12.1 million.
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After collapse of ussr baltic states rewrite soviet history and say they were occupied. But in reality soviet victory is their victory too.
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The USSR carried out two operations against the Poles - the national operation of the NKVD in 1937 and the Katyn operation in 1940. You can check the number of people killed in these operations and make sure that it was less than “millions”.
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Soviet support for the idea of creating a system of collective security in Europe: does not exist. The fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War: does not exist. Soviet assistance to the Chinese army in the fight against Japanese imperialism: does not exist.
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@tinatin7949 довоенный промышленный потенциал (уровня 1913 года) в ссср был восстановлен к 1928. На тот момент это пятая экономика в мире.
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You need to find the transcripts of Hitler's meeting with the generals and study them carefully. Try to find a plan there to protect Europe from Soviet invasion. In fact, you are confusing aggression as a political act and offensive as a form of warfare.
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In fact, Stalin ordered the deployment of the Red Army on the western border of the USSR around June 10, 1941 after receiving new information from intelligence. The whole process takes about a month, so he simply ran out of time.
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@Crashed131963 To claim that the occupation of Europe brought more harm to Germany than good, you need statistics. We have statistics on foreign workers and prisoners of war who worked in German factories. 1939 - 300 thousand 1940 - 1.2 million 1941 - 3 million 1942 - 4.2 million 1943 - 6.3 million 1944 - 7.1 million - We know that the partisan movement intensified gradually as Germany suffered military defeats. - We know that the number of partisans was less than the number of foreign workers in Germany. - We know that there was strong partisan resistance in only three countries - Poland, USSR, Yugoslavia. - We know that German military production grew steadily until mid-1944. - We know that Germany did not consider Austria, Sudetenland and French Alsace as occupied territory. - We know that the occupied countries paid a lot of money to Germany. - We know that Germany used foreign factories and resources for the benefit of its economy. Thus, the available facts suggest that the occupation of Europe brought more benefit to Germany than harm.
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