Comments by "James the Other One" (@jamestheotherone742) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. #1. Don't sit around watching Utube clips about being productive. :0
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  2.  @slavicemperor8279  Yeah, how dare they resist collective rape and pillage for the greater good of the Moscow Soviet.
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  3.  @slavicemperor8279  And sabotaged by Russians both before, during, and after the Soviet era.
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  4. Rodimtsev: "We don't have enough rifles." Chuikov: "Don't worry, there are plenty of them lying around."
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  5. Nations don't have friends, only interests. Finland wasn't in the Axis because it was not a party to the Tripartite Pact.
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  6. They never even tried. Even where populations were initially friendly and supportive, the Germans went out of their way to alienate and victimize. This is a not-insignificant reason why they lost the war. Surly oppressed people are not particularly productive and a lot of troops were tied down garrisoning and suppressing the occupations.
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  7. I've oft wondered at what point, if ever, Hitler ever thought, "Well, I sure screwed this up."
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  8. They were emancipated from human rights and decency.
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  9. Negotiations (that did not happen) would not have likely have resulted in a battlefield cease-fire that would have effected the tactical situation. re: Finland and the Winter War. The Soviets pushed just as hard while they were negotiating a treaty, in fact they used it as pressure to get the Finns to give in. All the "negotiations" were was a message to the Western Allies to get off their asses and open a Western front.
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  10.  @twirlipofthemists3201  The Germans didn't need to invade England. They just needed to starve it into submission and successfully blockade it from shipping and interdict its airpower.
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  11. With air superiority and ultimately supremacy, the Luftwaffe could have bombed the RN into oblivion and destroyed the ports that England depended on to not starve much less support the war effort. The BoB was a close run thing even when Hitler and his generals were easily distracted.
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  12. ​ @Alexandroslav  But "Archangel" sounds better and "prettier" in English than "Arkhangelsk", which frankly sounds like gibberish to their ears. ;0
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  13. When you are rationalizing Hitler and the Nazis, you take whatever meager leverage you have.
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  14. Well in this one he's pretty much hitting his critics over the head with the pan.
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  15. Its too bad not much of the tactical level detail of this battle has been preserved (or was even recorded). It would be interesting to see how the battalions and even companies down to individual tanks maneuvered and fought considering how dynamic it was.
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  16. "Gang activity"? WTF? You're an idiot . Or worse a Russian troll.
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  17. Himmler styled them as "elite" the SS officers and troops thought of themselves (were indoctrinated) as "elite". The rest of the Wehrmacht thought they were pikers. No they really did stuff like that. The reason why they had such high casualties is because the really did believe the "Ubermensch" BS they had been fed. So when they were told to charge that machine gun! They charged that machine gun and died in droves doing it. And they kept at it all the way to the bitter end.
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  18. Its in the socalist handbook.
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  19. There was also that carefully nurtured cult of personality. Even after he died and his naughty stuff was denounced, still served the Soviet hierarchy because it/he legitimized their authority.
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  20. See original video where when you decouple the economic theory from the political/social, the two become very similar. Both subordinate the individual and society to the State. How they went about that was different. The Bolsheviks destroyed the bourgeois and private sector, the Fascists incorporated them.
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  21. By '43 the US was scrapping the bottom of the barrel for officers. Not so much from losses, but from expansion. Pretty much anyone who could sign his own name and didn't drool to often would make promotion if he were lucky enough to have good NCOs to carry him along and keep him out of trouble.
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  22. You ought to redo this video with your honed narration and editing super powers. The subject (and your writing) deserve it.
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  23. That's why he said it was a "spectrum".
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  24.  @TheImperatorKnight  Like you said in the monologue, Spain was... complicated. Few of the actors lined up with our modern categorization of ideology or motive.
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  25.  @askeladden7930  An explosive. unstable until mixed into a stabilizer like dynamite. Its how Alfred Novel got his fortune.
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  26.  @freedomordeath89  "Are you seriously JUSTIFYING and supporting terror tactics and warcrimes?" That is not what he is saying at all. And you are incorrect. The brutal Nazi occupations were terrifyingly effective at controlling local civilian populations who's fighting age males often outnumbered the German garrisons tens of thousands to one. For each of your examples of Medieval sieges that didn't go so well, you can find a bunch where it did work. You don't have to worry about public opinion when you've put the whole population to the sword and sacked and burned the place. The (your) morality doesn't matter because we are talking about real events who's morality was entirely the context of the time. Someone with a "phd in history" ought to know this.
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  27. That's pretty optimistic for a Russian.
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  28. The Universe likes its little ironies. Of course its not all the Nazis fault. Human nature (on all sides) also contributed to the current tragedy that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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  29.  @klausbrinck2137  Your gibberish is not only a rather inaccurate glossing over of the truth, it is also not related to your post, my post, nor the original post of this thread. Even after the revolution, Stalin's USSR was directly and intentionally responsible for the deaths of millions of its own citizens. The "unsurpassed rise in living standards and industry" in the Soviet Union was more that they could simply borrow and steal the technology that already existed in the world, and in fact received a lot of help from its erstwhile "enemies" in the west in doing so.
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  30. Churchill is considering the global geo-strategic picture, not only of the immediate but also what the post-war political environment is going to look like. Where as the generals are only concerned with fighting their battles (and looking good/brilliant to history). That is why he has to constantly badger and goad them into action.
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  31. Because it was never an important front in WWII most histories don't even mention what happened there. Misery and death was the common theme everywhere the Nazis occupied.
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  32. Anyone can rationalize anything. If you thought/been told they were evil, you'd shoot her too.
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  33. You're an idiot. At the time of the Crusades, everyone was a "terrorist and babykiller" by today's standards. That is just how they did things. Even today guess what happens when you go to war? People get terrorized and babies get killed. Are you sure you are on the right channel troll?
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  34. The victor writes the jokes... or something like that.
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  35.  @freedomordeath89  He was providing the context of the time period not making judgement of them. You know the objectivity they are supposed to teach first year history students. The Germans lost WWII for a lot of reasons, being barbaric was only one of them. For a source of garrison ratios, go look up the populations of the occupied countries. Hint: They are in the tens of millions. A couple hundred thousand doesn't go that far. No, the Nazis really did rationalize the rapin' and plliagin' to themselves. LIkewise, the Vikings, the Crusaders, and every other Caesar, king and petty warlord throughout human history really did rationalize it as being morally reasonable, or they didn't because it was just an accepted part of their culture that they are entitled to kill and take from the "them". Ie: "just business". I guess you didn't get very much from that correspondence course art history degree eh? Here is a tip to save yourself further embarrassment, sit on your hands more when you are in the comments section of serious historical studies channels.
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  36. The beginning of the 20th century was pretty much a complete dark mark on European history. The entire continent just went completely bat-s#it crazy.
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  37. @12:40 "colloquial Russian" Something that in English would get you demonitized on YT.
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  38.  @Paciat  That is not true. Germany and the USSR had a separate treaty, otherwise the Soviets would have been obliged to assist Italy, and things with Japan would have been... awkward. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was purely a temporary convenience for both sides. They had zero sociopolitical commonality.
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  39.  @sorsocksfake  No. he was just a POS coward that didn't/couldn't bring himself to throw "his boys" into the battle. Yes he wiley persevered his force, but at the cost of a lot of blood to other units. If the Dash to the Wire had resulted in a British route, he would probably have been one of the principle malfactors blamed for the defeat. Luckily for him, his sandbagging was glossed over in the afterglow the Brit general staff felt after having finally "beaten" Rommel.
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  40.  Pedro Kantor  Ah... no. There was absolutely no illusions in the US, UK, or anywhere in Western Europe that the USSR was anything but another version of the same totalitarianism that had just been defeated in Germany. The "honeymoon" of the Allies victory ended mere months after the war as the West watched the Soviets install puppet communist governments and the Red Army rape and pillage the former Axis territory.
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  41.  Pedro Kantor  that not even revisionism, thats like... delusional.
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  42. Real free markets don't exist for the same reason real communism (or even socialism) doesn't exist. They are ideological concepts and theory that can be applied to the real world but don't actually function acceptably because of human nature. People will cheat and game both systems without compromises and exceptions.
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  43.  @mat_j  the triggered left-winger where the historical reality offends their political correctness and revisionism.
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  44.  @pathocrat  said, "The Soviets put a huge emphasis on science and technology..." Is not economic growth. And didn't do squat with it beside try (and fail) to keep up with the West. Even at the end they couldn't provide decent living standards because they were too busy making everyone (except the Party) equally poor and miserable. Zero-sum.
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  45. If Stalin had lost his nerve while the Germans were at the gates of Moscow and feared losing everything and/or thought "peacing out" of the war was the only way to save the rest of the USSR, he might have. This is what the West feared would happen, because then Hitler could devote more resources to starving out England and the Mediterranean theater.
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  46.  @WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs  Always "great" to hear from the Nazi apologists.
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  47. Soviet Socialist: We also get to decide what you deserve to receive, whenever we feel like you should receive it.
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  48.  @pietersteenkamp5241  So you are saying you are old and dumb? Or just that you bought into the lie of Marx way back when and your ego (or something) won't let you admit that you were wrong? Well bless your heart.
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  49. If you think that is bad you should try playing squad leader IRL.
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  50.  @klausbrinck2137  When you are starting pretty much near the stone age of serfdom, rising to only 20 or 30 years behind the "developed world" isn't saying much. Both the USSR and PRC had reoccurring shortages and famines AFTER they implemented socialism, the Soviets because they spent all their resources trying (and failing) to compete militarily with the US, and the Chinese only became prosperous after they embraced capitalism. Yes, your idiotic ignorance is showing.
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