Comments by "Вячеслав Скопюк" (@user-yj8vj3sq6j) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

  1. +Suspect on foot[FIN] tell that to Saudy Aravia military. Maybe it will soothe they wounded pride
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  2. you really don't know anything about soviet tactics, do you?
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  3. +Some Random Guy why shouldn't i? He is funny enough. And i'm very doubtful that he is a Westerner
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  4. yep, those drunken soviet soldiers, rushing in a straight line
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  5.  @TheKrzy65siek  but kriegtagesbuch of the same XIXAK states(at the page 195) that 'During the discussion of the transfer celebration and the march, the Russian commander [Krivoshein] expressed the wish not to involve his tanks in the march, otherwise the Soviet crews would not see the German troops marching through. In accordance with this wish the stipulated plan for the transfer celebration was changed as follows: the passage of the Soviet tank units will not take place, and the [Soviet] military band and crews should line up next to the military band of the 20th [Wehrmacht] division opposite the commander.'
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  6.  @TheKrzy65siek  Bundesarchiv Freiburg RH 21-2/3 Bl.195 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  7. +Doralingus & Assorted it's nothing bad, if common people use tern 'Spetsnaz'. But, i think that report from DIA - not the right place for such use.
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  8.  @hazzmati  why USSR should want to attack?
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  9. And predecessor of NKGB was NKVD
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  10. ROFL
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  11. +ScoundrelFilms Ukraine and Belarus - pretty much yes. "Others" - no.
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  12. >They were both planning to backstab each other why? USSR didn't need to 'backstab' Germany, if France holds out, as happened in WWI. And nothing indicated that France couldn't hold against Germany
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  13. Robo Warrior remaining independent out of mercy is victory? OF COURCE! >enemy aims to occupy the entire country. Who says so?
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  14. Robo Warrior >You can't say its a defeat either. USSR reached their goals and some more, Finland - lost territory without any compensation and in a much larger amount than was proposed during negotiations in Moscow >The USSR could've never hold Finland for a long time. see Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Western Ukraine and so on. >That's what everyone says, both sides in fact. nope. Only some ignorant fools >Nobody is denying it except you. ROFL. Nobody? You asked everyone?
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  15. Robo Warrior >The ultimate military goal was to annex Finland entirely sources, please >The "negotiations" in Moscow were a trap all long. really? >The "Suojeluskunta" organization would've made occupation hell. or not >Ignorant fools say that the Soviets didn't aim to annex Finland entirely. See the war plans for yourself. of course you have said plains and can prove it. >Its a common fact that the Soviet Union miserably failed in the Winter War. you failed to prove it even to yourself :D
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  16. Robo Warrior >The formation of the "Terijoki" government and Soviet speeches of being in Helsinki inside two weeks of fighting kinda give away the whole plan. or they had to put pressure on the government of Finland >Yes the plan for Finnish annexation was made in July 1936, before the negotiations even began sources, pleace >Explain how the "Suojeluskunta" organization wouldn't have made the occupation hell? by failing miserably >Those plans are public information. could you be more specific about "those plans"? >How is losing over 320 000 men dead, missing and wounded not a miserably failure? how is losing large mass of territory, including the second largest city in the state could be  "glorious victory"?
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  17. +EdMcF1 >Some German sources noted that the Soviet disposition in mid- June was for an offensive. I think this source was Goebbels
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  18. Teemu >as scripted in Soviet letters and archives of the war times. paradoxically, russian historians don't know of such things
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  19. >UK, France, and Japan against Russia? with Japan aiming to include all European colonies to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere? And why US should stay neautral?
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  20. Lol. "Soviet Winter"? Really? There is excellent video on that channel, about what "winter" stopped German advance
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  21. + Andrew Porter >Yet both Russia & China have used massed infantry as a weapon in & of itself. that's a bullshit. Soviet military relied heavily on the involvement of a large mass of armoured vehicles >It is mentioned in the documentary that at one point, some Finnish personnel were over come by the shock of the carnage they had been forced to inflict. yes, yes, "machineguns barrels melted". Another bullshit
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  22. sakor88 and pets. You forgot pets
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  23. Markku Hänninen btw, looks like you are okay with US stomping independent countries all around the world?
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  24. +Dr Strangelove but, you didn't ansver. Who owns the former Eastern Prussia?
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  25. +gdansk87 >U know that the communists had been almost at the polish border prior the war? yup. That happens, when you are trying to restore 'Rzeczpospolita'. Strangely, after the war 'the communists' also have been at polish border. >so it WAS also a counter-attack against the soviet invasion or maybe it was soviet counterattack against polish invasion? You didn't ansver, though - would you love if Germany got Danzig back?
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  26. >The knowledge came from the Soviet spy agency, most notably, Richard Sorgei Sorge sent "interesting" reports, to be modest. > The purge took out the most experienced of commanders nope >Example of which, the SVT, which was too hard to mass produce that's why it was built in millions - thing, that of other countries only USA managed to do with semiauto rifle >Frontline troops were mostly listening to propaganda and communist doctrines such a bullshit >the Stavka ordered numerous suicidal assaults resulting in huge losses, along with Order 227 yes, it would be better to sit and wait for German tanks to roll over your positions. And you forget that order 227 was issued in 1942. For a reason
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  27. +JohQx3 of course. And Viipuri was just a present :D
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  28. +Fraz so, you add conditions here... Not main part of territory, not puppet state... What else?
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  29. +Volker Hartmann nope. It was just 'old capital'. Although the second largest city in the country. Saint-Piterburg was the center of economic power
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  30. +4 Tonnes of Fury nope, after war Greece wasn't part of anything
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  31. >commander of the Russian bomber force WTF is 'Russian bomber force'?
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  32. +LoggotyroX33 But... USSR have won...
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  33. +Big E oh, and there is Suur-Suomi, and Viipuri, Sortavala and Petsamo belongs to Finland ?
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  34. +Thorium Enegry Rezun(Suvorov) and Solonin are by no means a "new studies in the field". They are not studies at all
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  35. + redneck96100 Oh you!
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  36. MakeMeThinkAgain KP-31 was intended as a more cheap substitute for light machine gun. He is goddamn heavy (AFAIR, 7 kg loaded) and unwieldy. And it has a small range of effective fire.
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  37. >If they had stayed for a few days and systematically destroyed everything loss of attacking planes began to grow in the second wave. If they had stayed for a few days - they would lose the trained pilots. At the wery least
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  38. Koobee Wublee >subsequent operations could be carried out with better efficiencies and meeting ever increasing resistance. 5%  losses, as you said, and most of them - in the second wave >In WWII, the guns of these mighty battleships can lay waste to you without you physically seeing where they are maybe you remember accounts, when Japanese battleships succeeded in indirect firing at point targets? >I am not stupid to say any shore batteries if existed would not be any effective when the enemy had achieved complete air and naval supremacies. shore batteries, who were existed, could deny the enemy to exercise their naval supremacy >With air and naval supremacies achieved, AA should have easily be neutralized, historical accounts contradict your statements. Take Siege of Leningrad, Siege of Sevastopol and Winter War for example
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  39. 6668084747 >Finland attacked to take back what was taken like Soviet Karelia, yes >Finland and Germany simply had a common enemy USSR and Allies simply had common enemy - Hitler, and all those who helped him. Like Finland. So I do not understand the reasons for your whining. I bet, Finns were not surprised
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  40. 6668084747 >Finland was not an enemy of the Allies Finland were helping Hitler - so, enemy of the Allies >Mannerheim refused to help in the siege of Leningrad by taking part in said siege, yes. The Finns even had plans to use long-range artillery against Kronstadt >stopped advancing even though he could have kept going at that time. why he stopped there, where he met stubborn resistance of Soviet troops? Like in Soviet Karelia? It is far to the east of the old border
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  41. what "soviet crimes"?
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  42. +Lunar Safeguard As you remember? Are you former member of Soviet General staff?
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  43. Isola SanServolo yup, that was te part of the action. Except there is no such thing as "little blitzkrieg"
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  44. а ты правильно произносишь Paris или Ministry of Defense?
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  45. +sting2death2 you are talking to die-hard russophobe.
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  46.  @shanebeckett3557  >There are numerous accounts of the first wave of men not having enough weapons and the 2nd bit having any but were told to pick up the rifles of the men who fell in front. yep. Accounts like "Enemy at the Gates" >Have you seriously never researched ww2? Have you? Serious researchers struggle to find such cases > Svd 40 semi auto rifles were rare and if you think every squad had one just that alone is enough to see that in real life squads did not look like that facepalm. He told, that riflemen COULD be equipped with SVT-40. And with about 1,6 million SVT made they weren't rare
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  47. +Kuro Usagi > Servicemen, who are fighting and dying in the Donbass o'rly? Thing is, that there was almost NO russian servicemen, active, or on 'vacation', captured during war in Donbass last years. Skip that bullshit about crooked government, you are not Alexey Navalny, and I'm not 14 year old boy
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  48. Congratulations, tovarich. You have been promoted to Grammar KGB Colonel
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  49. I'm very doubt that any LGBT population was in Chechnya in the first place. Because of, you know, Caucasus conservatives. Georgians are christians, but they not wery fond of LGBT too.
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  50. >did the western allies have comparatively more experienced units by the end of the war? it depends on your definition of experience. Germans with Eastern front experience tended to regard Allied ground troops inferior to the Soviet
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