Comments by "Андрей Борцов" (@Mentol_) on "Stalin’s Paranoid Military Purges - The Great Terror | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1938 Part 4 of 4" video.

  1. The Finns won the information war. This is the reason. While the USSR was a closed state, Finland used foreign correspondents to popularize Finnish successes. Therefore, the world was shocked to learn that Finland agreed to conclude a peace treaty with the USSR and give up 10% of its territory. If you read Western newspapers of that time, you would get the impression that Finland is winning this war. The moral in this story is the conclusion that if you want to get an objective picture, you must study the documents of both parties to the conflict.
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  2. 1. During the winter war, Finland lost more people in percentage terms (26k from 3.7 mln population) than the USSR (95k from 167 mln). Thus, the finnish losses were more significant than the soviet ones. 2. The Germans did not know about the scale of the purge in the USSR. German intelligence also assessed the actions of the red army in the winter war normally (this is an old myth). The Germans had winter clothes, but they could not send them to the army due to the fact that they needed ammunition in the first place. Logistics did not allow them to have everything at once.
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  3. Poland killed 17 thousand Wehrmacht soldiers in 36 days (472 people a day). France and allies killed 50,000 Axis soldiers in 43 days (1,163 people a day). The USSR killed 383 thousand Axis soldiers (1984 people per day) in 193 days (1941). The allies after the opening of the second front killed 340 thousand German soldiers in 216 days (1944), which gives 1,574 people a day. Moreover, the Allies had numerical, technical and material superiority over the enemy, in contrast to the Red Army in 1941.
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  4. > His purged almost cost him to lose the war. Poland killed 17 thousand Wehrmacht soldiers in 36 days (472 people a day). France and allies killed 50,000 Axis soldiers in 43 days (1,163 people a day). The USSR killed 383 thousand Axis soldiers (1984 people per day) in 193 days (1941). The allies after the opening of the second front killed 340 thousand German soldiers in 216 days (1944), which gives 1,574 people a day. Moreover, the Allies had numerical, technical and material superiority over the enemy, in contrast to the Red Army in 1941. > Hitler and others underestimated the Soviet Union The winter war did not affect the preparation of the Barbarossa operation. This was an attempt to deprive England of her last hope of victory in the war. Thus, Soviet policy was not influenced by Hitler’s decision to start a war in the east. > Soviets humiliating defeat by Finland. USSR won winter war. > But it really was the Russian winter that lost it. nice propaganda.
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  5. Poland killed 17 thousand Wehrmacht soldiers in 36 days (472 people a day). France and allies killed 50,000 Axis soldiers in 43 days (1,163 people a day). The USSR killed 383 thousand Axis soldiers (1984 people per day) in 193 days (1941). The allies after the opening of the second front killed 340 thousand German soldiers in 216 days (1944), which gives 1,574 people a day. Moreover, the Allies had numerical, technical and material superiority over the enemy, in contrast to the Red Army in 1941.
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  6. Firstly, Stalin was not incompetent in military matters (compared the non-professionals) - this is just a myth. Secondly, the leader of the nation (subjective factor) cannot have much influence on the course of the global war (objective).
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  7.  @Redmanticore  Stalin said that the failures of the Red Army are due to the fact that it relies on the outdated experience of the civil war.
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  8. Ты о чем?
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  9. Какая связь между репрессиями и уровнем ВВП ? Какая связь между переименованием РККА и победой в войне?
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  10. Я в вами общаюсь, а не с интернетом. Не поленитесь предоставить конкретные данные.
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  11. Ты пишешь четвертое подряд сообщение в котором нет никакой конкретики. Это называется словоблудие. Более того, походу ты распространяешь мифы о неэффективности советской военно-экономической системы. Пытаешься заменить советский патриотизм на русский национализм. Это называется распространение дезинформации. И если я не потребую от тебя конкретики, то ты продолжишь распространять эту пропаганду уже в другом месте.
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  12. Ты пишешь уже пятое сообщение без конкретики. Не надоело словоблудие? Если есть что добавить - добавляй, если нечего - так и скажи. Не нужно писать пустые сообщения. То чем я занимаюсь в разных исторических видео это информационное противодействие. То есть борюсь с мифами, стереотипами, демонизацией и т.д.
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  13. > Read Mark Solonin He is propagandist, not professional historian.
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  14. Solzhenitsyn anti-communist propagandist. Do not trust his numbers and conclusions.
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  15. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is an anti-communist propagandist. This is a bad source of information. All his numbers in the book are false, the conclusions are also false (for example, he says that the Bolsheviks hated Russian culture).
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  16. Solzhenitsyn’s book is rubbish. When you recommend reading it, you are insulting this person. For example, Solzhenitsyn said that the number of prisoners in Soviet camps in 1941 was 15 million. In fact, it was 1.5 million. And this is only a small lie. He creates the greatest lie when he says that the Bolsheviks hated historical Russia and its culture. Do you know why he says this? Because he is a nationalist and has such a picture of the world. As a result, people in the West do not read Soviet documents because it is boring - they read a person who hates the Soviet regime for ideological reasons. There is no need to create a false choice between the denial of the Soviet camps and the lies of Solzhenitsyn. It is necessary to use a scientific point of view without any demonization (a form of propaganda).
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  17. If Solzhenitsyn was just an honest man, then he would say that his book is based not on the truth, but on his personal fantasies. He would say that my book is the opinion of a man who hates the Soviet regime, so you should not evaluate it as an objective source of information. The only value of Solzhenitsan’s book is recognition of the fact that there are Soviet labor camps. Everything else is fantasy and demonization. It is not surprising that in the west his books gained great popularity because in fact it is an information weapon. Now people will read the book and say that capitalism has no alternative - this is the task of propaganda.
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  18. We must evaluate the Soviet system from the point of view of its government. German - from a German point of view, etc. We should not use the opinion of people who are marginalized within the framework of this system (the communists considered nationalism a bourgeois idea).
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  19. Solzhenitsyn uses demonization in his book. This is a form of propaganda. Primitive propaganda. You talk about the value of his book, but you never wondered about the opinion of the Soviet government? They rules the state, not Solzhenitsyn. What is true for government, nationalists may perceive differently. How many Soviet documents have you personally read? How many books of Stalin or Lenin have you read? I think not one, but you are always ready to read the demonization of Solezhnitsyn.
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  20. Communism is not a religion. The Bolsheviks are atheists and operate outside of religious logic.
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  21. No, this is not a dogma. Lenin said that you need to get rid of any dogma and study dialectics.
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  22. Fragment from the speech of Stalin on April 17, 1940. Mortars - the fourth, there is no modern war without mortars. All corps, all companies, battalions, regiments must have six-inch mortars necessarily, 8-inch ones. This is a terrible need for modern warfare. These are very effective mortars and very cheap artillery. Wonderful thing mortar. Do not spare the mines, here is the slogan, pity your people. If you spare the bombs and shells - do not spare the people, fewer people will be. If you want our war to be with little blood, do not spare the mines.
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  23. > The revolution was funded by US Bankers fake info. > like Schiff. He supported february revolution, not october one. > Russians were promised everything and got nothing. Here is a brief list of the achievements of the two russian 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.
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  24. Soviet leaders have never declared that they are building a totalitarian state. The original term totalitarianism was created by Mussolini and had positive properties for him.
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  25. > since communism is as bad as hitlerism. This is modern propaganda which says that capitalism has no alternative.
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  26. Poland killed 17 thousand Wehrmacht soldiers in 36 days (472 people a day). France and allies killed 50,000 Axis soldiers in 43 days (1,163 people a day). The USSR killed 383 thousand Axis soldiers (1984 people per day) in 193 days (1941). The allies after the opening of the second front killed 340 thousand German soldiers in 216 days (1944), which gives 1,574 people a day. Moreover, the Allies had numerical, technical and material superiority over the enemy, in contrast to the Red Army in 1941.
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  27. Demonization is a form of propaganda.
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  28. > early ww2 soviet tactics seemed to be to run the germans out of ammunition, with the bodies of soviet soldiers. Cite any Soviet order that has such a goal.
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  29. 1. The reason for the operation began Barbarossa was an attempt to deprive England of the last hope of victory in the war. It did not depend on Soviet politics. 2. Poland killed 17 thousand Wehrmacht soldiers in 36 days (472 people a day). France and allies killed 50,000 Axis soldiers in 43 days (1,163 people a day). The USSR killed 383 thousand Axis soldiers (1984 people per day) in 193 days (1941). The allies after the opening of the second front killed 340 thousand German soldiers in 216 days (1944), which gives 1,574 people a day. Moreover, the Allies had numerical, technical and material superiority over the enemy, in contrast to the Red Army in 1941.
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  30.  @Redmanticore  Firstly, the purge did not affect the fighting capacity of the Red Army because the old and new officers had the same experience of the civil war (Stalin also had). Secondly, the USSR did not end the winter war with a complete victory because Britain and France could intervene, and the Soviet government did not want it.
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  31.  @Redmanticore  People who say that the purge greatly weakened the Red Army cannot know in advance what would have happened if it had not been. This is a logical error.
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  32.  @Redmanticore  One of the main reasons why the Finnish army could achieve local victories in the winter war is the fact that the Finnish radio intelligence was able to reveal the Soviet codes even before the war, and thus the Finnish command knew what the Soviet army would do.
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