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tan: You conveniently forgot one tiny little detail: The USSR was poised and ready to invade Germany and western Europe! Germany simply struck peremptorily one month or so earlier. The German generals debated this operation long and hard and concluded that the attack had to occur when it did. Waiting for a "better opportunity" would only weaken Germany and strengthen the USSR, because the USSR was getting very serious material help from the USA.
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@jacktattis Germany designed and produced the first propeller/piston aircraft that would fly at 50,000 feet altitude.
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@f-86zoomer37 Certainly the USSR had troops along their own western borders, ready to invade western Europe. Where do you think the 3 million plus prisoners of war came from that Germany so quickly rounded up?
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@Crazmuss Rubbish. Collectivization brought on famine.
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@mrwolsy3696 Why was it a blemish?
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@ColinTherac117 You're insane to believe all that.
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@damianousley8833 Rubbish.
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sp: You are wrong. From a crop output perspective, a small farm intensively cultivated is much more productive in output per square meter than any factory farm or huge agri business. I just finished reading a study on this topic and was astounded too. The logic by the author was impeccable though.
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@rudolfkraffzick642 Well summarized.
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@AlexandreDelneste There are a number of books available to confirm my assertion. You need to look for them yourself because if I list them here my post will be deleted. In any case the USA help to the USSR begins long before the beginning of WWII. The US played a great role in industrializing the USSR while the US went through the great depression there. During the war it amounted to millions of tons of food, war material, guns and cannons, aircraft, even US currency printing plates. Plus about 400,000 trucks. One such book war written by US president Teddy Roosevelt (not Franklin). YT is not for historic truth or non-PC postings on controversial subjects.
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@AlexandreDelneste Methinks the title of TR book is Freedom Betrayed.
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My my, the rubbish spewed in the commentary! The German offensive Barbarossa was a desperate attempt by the Germans to stop the USSR's invasion of Germany and western Europe! The German high command was fully aware of the difficulties they were likely to encounter, but any delay by the Germans would only strengthen the USSR. The USSR had amassed millions of soldiers and requisite supplies on its western borders for this invasion, which was to commence 1 month after the German preemptive strike. Not until USA shipped millions of tons of food and machinery to the USSR, became the situation more or less hopeless. As usual, the USA supported the wrong side! Read "Icebreaker" by Viktor Suvorov. Agreed this book is controversial, primarily because it disproves once and for all that the Germans were the aggressors.
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@ryujin9568 Please list some of the "terrible" things that Germany supposedly did. Along with verifiable authenticated reproducible forensic evidence. Thank you.
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@KameradVonTurnip I invite you to supply authenticated verifiable reproducible forensic evidence to prove your allegations. You cannot! That is why one gets imprisoned in Germany, and numerous other countries now, when publicly questioning all that anti-German war propaganda.
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The USA declared defacto war on Germany when France and Britain did. The USA fired on German naval vessels in the Atlantic and interfered with German shipping. All this while officially neutral. The German declaration of war was for internal German purpose; without that declaration the German command was unable to issue legal orders to fight back.
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Rubbish.
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@AaSs-ln9mm Rubbish.
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dd: The Soviet Union WAS a threat as it had planned to commence the invasion of western Europe 1 month after Germany struck in a premptory manner.
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dh: There are definite similarities.
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@endzor If you believe that nonsense you better provide some proof.
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@ns_gefolgsmann6156 Indeed! No one ever mentions that the head of the Czech government, Emil Hache I believe he was, travelled to Berlin with his daughter to ask the German government to protect his country against Soviet invasion. There are historic movie reels that show the Czech public welcoming the German protective troops.
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@hendriktonisson2915 Rubbish, that quotation is taken out of context and was meant to show German action after the USSR had invaded.
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@williestyle35 Lucky shot??? Well aimed shot more than likely. But then, luck favours the prepared mind. Let's see, the Hood was sunk with one shell, what was the comparative effort required to sink the Bismark?
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@Boppy-B-B And would have lost against Germany in a heartbeat had the Brits not been able to get the USA and USSR to make common cause to destroy Germany.
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Rubbish.
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James: Evil prevailed from WWII. Just look at the world around you.
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@IvoryKing-q3b Disagree! The Germans managed to keep the communist Soviet Union from invading western Europe. An excellent achievement considering what the Germans were up against.
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@AlexandreDelneste US trade with the Soviet Union made the SU much more confident and belligerent with its planned invasion of western Europe and Germany. Operation Barbarossa was simply a preemptive strike by Germany to stop this this invasion.
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That's why it took almost 6 years for the entire capitalist and communist world to destroy that small European country, right? I suppose then that the allies weapons were even less effective, and their win was only due to the overwhelming superiority in quantity of human cannon fodder.
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@Manimmut Myth???
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@Manimmut At least 6 authors I have read disagree with you.
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tric: By that time the USSR would have begun its invasion of western Europe.
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@n_o_o_n_e You nitwit! The Germans stopped the USSR from invading Germany and western Europe. Not until the stupid USA shipped millions of tons of war material to the USSR, was the die cast. As usual the USA supported the wrong side.
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No! He simply wanted stolen German territory back.
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@edmundblackaddercoc8522 Because, according to the official politically correct narrative, the USSR was part of the "good guys" that destroyed Germany. Never mind that the USSR was the most murderous regime until the USA after the war.
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SMG: Some people will believe childish tales of horror until they die.
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