Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "How Germans Saw the Battle of Britain (1940)" video.

@maciejwalkowski2316 Numbers of Soviet equipment were sure impressive. This is one of the reasons why allies made the mistake of allowing Hitler to grow. Imagine that in mid 30s Soviets had maneuvers with over 1000 tanks participating! Soviets trained with more tanks in exercise (modern) then France had! When Hitler found out supposed data of how many tanks Soviet have, he did not believe it. Soviets had two modes of operation - either fight like lions or flee like mice. Some early fights show incredible will to fight to the last man. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress Russians even made a movie about it - complete with still present Polish eagle.
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GodBAINS Yt . 6.1M views Based on above Germany predicted that Japan would not be able to handle US for more then a year. By that time Hitler gambled on taking out USSR.
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Germany after defeat of France still had no properly functioning industry. In addition to that it was preparing a war with Soviets. All UK had to do is survive for a while while Germany did a phony war on it. Germany would defeat UK and occupy the islands but at a huge cost - certainly it would not be able to invade Soviet Union. Soviet plan was to wait for fall of UK, exhausted Germany to strike and liberate all of Europe... in its image. After all, Germany did have a taste of a fight on two fronts in WWI - surely they would never do something like that again.
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@maciejwalkowski2316 Neither Germany nor Soviets were ready for war. The initial attack went so well b/c soviets were not even ready for combat. Germany in 1941 was still in "war is a side show" mode - not total war. Germany invaded Soviet Union with just 1000 tanks more then Poland (!) Same number of pp as France and similar number of aircraft. Soviets never wanted to fight at peer enemy. Look at their progress - Baltic states, partition of Poland, Finland (parts of) Limited war with Japan (peace treaty just before invading Poland).
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@maciejwalkowski2316 Soviet number of casualties and prisoners were very high in 1941. How does that support they did not want to die for Stalin? Soldiers from all countries. except Japan, surrendered.
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