Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Numbers Say it All | The Myth of German Superiority on the WW2 Eastern Front" video.

  1.  @Mrkontrol007  : In many ways, the Soviet Army was more of a meritocracy than their enemy. True merit (and good luck!) made for rapid promotion. If you sucked, you didn't last very long. People look back on the Great Patriotic War as "the good old bad days," when people were truly heroic, and everybody was pulling in the same direction in war-time. But I keep coming back to the fact that Stalin had fresh armored divisions, just sitting there in Manchuria on June 22nd, 1941. It took them 'til December to arrive in and around Moscow, but at the end of a bitter road, the Germans, tired, decimated and demoralized had 2 fresh armored divisions from the Far East added to the equation. I'm sure that lend-lease didn't hurt any. I haven't made a study of how decisive it was. But considering the fight the Soviets were in, and that they were the last man standing against Hitler in any meaningful way, Lend-Lease was the least we could do. Yes, the Battle of Britain was important. But the real war was won and lost on the Soviets' Western Front. A far bigger war than the one the Allies fought on the Germans' Western Front. Yes, the U.S. put a period on the hostilities with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Without the A-Bomb, the Soviets were planning the invasion of Hokkaido, and the U.S., sick of spending lives, was more than half-way OK with the idea, I suspect.
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