Comments by "" (@TheArklyte) on "Why Finland \"joined\" the Axis" video.

  1. Except it was a formal alliance, Molotov had gone to France almost immediately after the end of polish campaign to start talks on alliance against Germany. Except, you know, soviets haven't thought that 1)France that had the biggest military industry in the world would just fold like that; 2)Hitler would be ballsy enough to go for 2 front war and still attack them. Planning rearmament to end only in 1943 was basically dropping the pants, turning around and assuming position if you'd allow such analogue and had almost ended up as irreparable disaster... and for several millions of young men, who had to fight for each kilometer of delay, it did.
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  2.  @dwarow2508   @Dwarow 2  1)I have a feeling that you have no semblance of idea what military industry even means if you mentioned USA in 1938. b)said "weak" industry "supplied"(ie anything not bolted down was stolen and brought to Germany, everything else worked locally) Third Reich with tooling and production lines that allowed to radically increase tank production above laughable levels, engine production, allowed new tanks like Tiger and Panther to be introduced into production DURING total war situation without stopping production lines for existing vehicles. By same logic you can claim that Russia nowadays doesn't have military industry at all then since their economy fails to financially support full scale production constantly. So, you know, time to stop viewing Russia as a threat and dissolve NATO, right?:D 2)literary mentioned in Churchill's memoires by virtue of being THE topic he struggles with to avoid. UK hoped that Germany would attack USSR even in 1938 when Czechs were sold off. Then in 1939 when Poland was left to die without any help if not for France upholding its promises to declare war on Germany if it would happen. Phoney War showed how much France was held back by its political and economical turmoil though.
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  3. Looks at Brits, who have mastered coordinating upwards of 1000 guns on same target within 5 minutes on the offensive
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  4.  @dwarow2508  1)France had biggest military industrial complex in the world at the beginning of WWII. You're missing navy in your calculations. French problem was that a)they didn't have enough men to man all that equipment(they actually did, but in colonies); b)approving budget to make said industry produce anything. 2)that was my point. Nobody did. Brits hoped for that, but also didn't know:D
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  5.  @popsey72 .
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