Comments by "Nick Danger" (@nickdanger3802) on "How close was the Soviet Union to Collapse in 1942-1943?" video.

  1. We have not forgotten the Civil War.
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  2.  @GeographyCzar  According to National Pornographic Atlanta was burned to destroy it as a hub of Confederate infrastructure, only slightly different from the RAF dropping incendiary's on any city in Germany and vice versa. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/nov15/burning-atlanta/
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  3. 2.35 "...Roosevelt says look we will reduce the amount of Lend-Lease we're sending you so that we can launch a second front in 1943 …" "Molotov says … no please we actually need the food …"
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  4. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev wrote in his autobiography, “Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army.” https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/war-won-spam-things/
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  5.  @jonathanjonathansen  By the standards of the day the Civil War was close to catastrophic with killed and wounded (post war one southern state spent 50 per cent of it's annual budget on artificial limbs) being almost 2 per cent of the 1860 population. The government estimated total dead for the USSR was 25 million and everyone who died in that time was counted as war dead. All dead from country's that became part of the USSR, before or after the war, were counted as USSR dead. Soldiers who died fighting the USSR, but were from areas that became part of the USSR after the war, were counted as both enemy killed and as USSR dead. As I understand it.
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  6.  @jonathanjonathansen  Some of the major reasons I do not put the same "Value" on the USSR's Great Patriotic War losses as some people. The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р; Голодомо́р в Украї́ні;[a][2] derived from морити голодом, "to kill by starvation")[3][4][5] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Great Purge or the Great Terror (Russian: Большой террор) was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union which occurred from 1936 to 1938. Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact USSR sold oil, wheat and manganese ore to Germany while Germany conquered half of Poland (USSR the other half), Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete and lay siege to Britain with U boats and bombers. Winter War 1939-1940 USSR took 10 per cent of Finland, territory taken is part of Russia today.  Katyn Massacre    Over 20,000 Poles were murdered by the Soviet Army in the Katyn Forest of western Russia. November 1941 Lend Lease extended to USSR. December 1941 Hitler declared war on the "neutral" USA. USSR received 11 Billion 1944 USD in goods and services and paid next to nothing. This does not bother me, but USSR fan boys who claim it didn't make any difference and/or everything was paid for, that does bother me. 175,000 Red Army soldiers were executed for crimes as minor as being AWOL for a few hours because they didn't speak Russian. Great Patriotic War "The term is not generally used outside the former Soviet Union, and the closest term is Eastern Front of World War II (1941-1945). Both terms do not cover the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe during which the USSR, then still in a non-aggression pact with Germany, occupied East part of Poland (1939), the Baltic states (1940), and Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940) and fought with Finland (1939-1940)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War_(term)
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  7.  @LikeUntoBuddha  If there had been no American War of Independence or the USA lost, the world be a very different place and WWII as we know it would not have happened. But if it did, how much help would the American Colonys have been to Britain?
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  8. A Different Kind of War As I understand it. Putting aside the Red Army was a Paper Tiger in 1941 because Stalin ordered the death or incarceration of almost all of the top military leaders, the largest army and air force in the world had crap equipment, no training and no support (logistics) and pilots who damaged aircraft in any way could be court martialed for sabotage and just a few years before the war the USSR/CCCP was barely producing enough food to feed itself, Hitler (as outlined in Mein Kampf, pub. 1925) and the Nutzis wanted to kill Soviets as much or more as they wanted to take territory. And if the Stalin Line on the old border had not been dismantled and moved to the unfinished Molotov Line on the new border in Poland, Stalins' paranoia had not blinded him to numerous warnings of invasion, Stalin had let the few military men left run the war, Stalin let civilians evacuate instead of forcing them to stay to dig tank traps and had not executed 175,000 soldiers for crimes like being AWOL for a few hours because they didn't speak Russian, losses would have been considerably reduced. USSR/CCCP war dead includes nations that did not become part of the USSR/CCCP until after the war and counts soldiers from those nations who died fighting the USSR/CCCP as both enemy killed and USSR/CCCP war dead.
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  9. Where crude oil was produced and where it was refined, also iron ore and coal production http://lago-colony.com/CRUDE_OIL_PRODUCTION/crude_oil_production_during_worl.htm
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  10. In 1942 the average price of one pound of wheat flour was less than 0.06 USD. Crude chart showing over 100 million USD of food was shipped to USSR by March 1943. https://www.coursehero.com/ch-assets/guides/U.S.%20History/Content/lend-lease-infographic-1943-photo-4398318.png
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  11. strategic ADJECTIVE relating to the gaining of overall or long-term military advantage. Food and other strategic deliveries to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Act, 1941-1945 https://histrf.ru/uploads/media/default/0001/12/df78d3da0fe55d965333035cd9d4ee2770550653.pdf
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  12.  @lemonprofit5147  For one of the many reasons the USSR had huge and avoidable losses, watch: Barbarossa: Why such high Soviet Losses? - Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8VcEw3Zno
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  13. What Made The American Civil War so Deadly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVAnp9xuTVI
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  14.  Dan Gurău  The American Civil War ended 155 years ago and what is referred to in most of the former USSR/CCCP as the Great Patriotic War ended 75 years ago. If the former USSR/CCCP had not sold oil, wheat and manganese ore (required for the production of armor steel and aircraft grade aluminum) to Germany and acted as a conduit around the Royal Navy blockade from September 1939 to June 1941, Germany would have been defeated by Britain and France in 1940 or 1941 and no Soviets would have died other than those who died in the invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939 and the invasion of Finland in October 1939. Great Patriotic War (term) "The term is not generally used outside the former Soviet Union, and the closest term is Eastern Front of World War II (1941-1945). Neither term covers the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe, during which the USSR, then still in a non-aggression pact with Germany, occupied eastern Poland (1939), the Baltic states (1940), and Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940) and fought with Finland (1939-1940)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Patriotic_War_(term)
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  15. Has ! Not secure warning
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  16. Food and other strategic deliveries to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Act, 1941-1945 https://histrf.ru/uploads/media/default/0001/12/df78d3da0fe55d965333035cd9d4ee2770550653.pdf
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  17.  @AFGuidesHD  July 1945 USA tests first A bomb. WWII cost the USA more than Britain, Canada and USSR combined including 21 Billion in free "Lend Lease" to British Empire and 11 Billion to USSR.
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  18.  The Colonel  As I understand it It is not a secret Stalin wanted a second front and every thing the USA could produce and both right now even though the USA and Britain didn't have the ships. You may find this interesting. Food and other strategic deliveries to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Act, 1941-1945 https://histrf.ru/uploads/media/default/0001/12/df78d3da0fe55d965333035cd9d4ee2770550653.pdf
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  20. List of countries by body mass index Rank United States 16  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass_index
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  21. In his memoir Khrushchev Remembers, Nikita Khrushchev declared: "Without Spam we wouldn't have been able to feed our army." https://time.com/4827451/spam-history-80th-anniversary/
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  22. 2.30 FDR and Molotov on Lend Lease or second front.
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  23. Who Had More Enemies? "The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р; Голодомо́р в Украї́ні;[a][2] derived from морити голодом, "to kill by starvation")[3][4][5] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians." 230,000 Ukrainians volunteered to serve in the SS. November 1939 Winter War USSR invaded Finland Finnish armed forces over 300,000. Continuation War 25 June 1941 – 19 September 1944 Finnish forces retake territory lost in Winter War. Surrendered 1944. Territory taken is now part of Russia. 1940 USSR coerced large chunks of territory from Romania. Romania joined the Axis and contributed more soldiers than all other Axis nations combined (minus Germany) in the war against the USSR. 1940 USSR "annexed" the Baltic States 20,000 Estonians and 80,000 Latvians volunteered for the SS. Anti Communist Forces: Belgium Total: 40,000 Denmark Total: 6,000 Netherlands Total: 25,000 Norway Total: 6,000 Soviet Union Russian Liberation Movement. Russian Liberation Army 50,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen-SS_foreign_volunteers_and_conscripts#France
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  24. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev wrote in his autobiography, “Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army.” https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/war-won-spam-things/
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