Comments by "Quizmaster China" (@QuizmasterLaw) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1. Well, Hitler just lost the war, sacking his best general. Don't believe me? Just read Halder's memoirs!
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  2. Soviet combatant losses are around 2:1 to German losses. That ratio falls when you include other axis allies. That figure skyrockets when you include civilians. Welcome to the war of extermination. Now you know where the 10 or 20 to 1 myth comes from, it's counting civilians (where do partisans come from?) among combatants...
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  3. TIK really needs to stick to central banks
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  4. Ah, that temporary dictatorship which is FINALLY going to achieve REAL Socialism!
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  5. "For the censors: no, I'm NOT a Nazi" which is EXACTLY what you would say if you were a CLEVER nazi!!
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  6. Prior to Speer: the German war economy is a SPECIALIST and HIGHLY TECHNICAL war economy geared for a RAPID LIMITED war lasting at most six months. AFTER Speer the German war economy became total, geared for a long term war of attrition in very unfavorable circumstances.
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  7. STICK TO BANKS
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  8. the German tank advantage wasn't mobility, armor, or gun. It was radios and optics. Better comms and can see and thus hit at greater ranges. Thisis true of all tank classes throughout the war.
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  9. Hitler ordered Goering to switch from hitting the airfields and factories to targeting the population of London because he wanted a quick cheap propaganda victory and london is a much larger target that one can effectively hit at night unlike an airfield.
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  10. "missing, presumed dead" was VERY frequent in Stalingrad because 1) there was nowhere to desert to, which is part of why the fighting was so intense. The Soviet forces could not retreat, later neither could the Germans. 2) Units OFTEN got encircled cut off and buildings often got smashed to rubble. So yeah, people turning up alive after all happened fairly frequently. 3) DId i mention fighting in the sewers? it happened too, one more reason people went "missing, presumed dead".
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  11. omfg! wins the thread because it's the truth.
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  12. TIK when all your production is literally going to bombs and explosives to kill other people; that's the opposite of productivity. It's really not possible to do any accurate economic measurement from 1939-1949. This isn't against you it's just the fact that a war-time economy achieves full employment by killing of the unemployed and burns off excess production in a giant potlatch of mass murder. This is just the material fact. You can't consider the war-time economy with literal rationining and lots of people who are young and working age killed as other than utterly dysfunctional. 1946-1950 was a "boom" in the sense that the worst was over and production could (and did by 1950) resume.
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  13. 16 brave soviet soldiers STUCK TO TANKS
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  14. ARE YOU JUCHE KIDDING OR WAT
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  15. @Gipsy Danger especially when it's more like 40 million. You must also take into account Holodomir and post-war starvation, and civilians including those "internally deported" to gulags.
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  16. if you kill of the unemployed and blow up excess production then the survivors get to split up the land and unburnt building and become richer! See? WW2 ended the depression! Imagine all that 2m by 2m cubic real estate which was sold as a result!
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  17. "WAR OF MOVEMENT" they said "JUST KICK IN THE DOOR AND THE WHOLE ROTTEN EDIFICE WILL COLLAPSE" THEY SAID.
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  18. "tank" in this video is obviously a code word for "the labor theory of value"
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  19. Stg44 being produced in 1944 was unavailable in Stalingrad. Though yeah, automatic weapons burn up ammunition and btw the troops really would prefer not to be carrying all that weight (ammunition is heavy).
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  20. famine after famine, massacre after massacre, mass incarceration after mass incarceration, why it's almost as if Marx advocated a Red Terror! oh wait. HE DID.
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  21. Hitler-Stalin peace overtures post 21 June 1941 are pure trolling on both sides.
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  22. "Could they have improved it?" Spoiler alert: No. It wasn't so much a lack of trucks or trains as fuel. Sure, switching guage in the East is a pain in the ass but not insurmountable. But so much was horse-drawn of necessity that even with some trucks and trains sustained distant operations were impossible.
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  23.  @MrJamesDoz  Abu, let me show you the lore of the Wehr
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  24. I would never say the German logistics were bad let alone worst. Russia without lend lease would have been a logistical impossibility. You cannot occupy nearly all of Europe without at least some logistical capability. Sure, Italian or Japanese logistics might be questionable (half of Japan's problem was U.S. submarines though). Sure, the German army had logistical problems. So did the allies; we just don't hear much about them. Feel free to look up the red ball express or the supply situation during the battle of the bulge (fought explicitly for logistics btw).
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  25. yeah i love black bread and rye as well, white bread is boring. Probably TIK is thinking of SAWDUST bread which did in fact exist that's what near famine and outright famine do. Nice belt. You gonna eat that?
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  26.  @MrJamesDoz  Der Gud Aryan ist strong in diesem
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  27. WHY ARE YOU INTERRUPTING MY HITLERY CHANNEL WITH FACTS? WHERE IS MY SECRET NAZi UFO!? AND YOU CALL THIS A *HISTORY CHANNEL*?
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  28. or a wombat.
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  29. Great topic, quick answer, no: Arab oil in those days still wasn't developed, even if you have the raw material you still have to process it. No processing machinery available even if Libyan reserves were known back then, which they were not. But the same question applies for Iraqi oil or elswhere in the UK realm where oil had been discovered.
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  30. "I was just following the evidence I had at the time." Just following evidence sir!
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  31. 11:40 fun fact: you go into combat on an empty stomach, if possible. 1) Wounds to the abdomen are much less serious then, really. 2) Being angry can be helpful when literally killing people.
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  32. most countries are not party political states (where governance is limited to legal, governing parties) germany and china are two examples of party political states. britain and usa are 2 examples of non-party states.
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  33.  Panos1972  SStylissh!
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  34. btw the Germans almost started producing T-34 tanks. They had an entire factory in Kharkiv for bringing captured T-34s up to German technical standards.
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  35. If you want to see something frightening study the Russian demographic curve. Every 20 years or so they have an inverse spike. The children of those born in 1920-1930 are more or less nonexistent. Their would be fathers died during the war (so did many of that generations mothers). It's not merely a failure to economically recover, it's much more serious: a semi succesful genocide. Russia's permafucked, it's not entirely their fault, but lots of aspects of Russian culture caused and excarbate their population problem.
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  36. Not close at all. This doesn't mean the Soviet people were not literally being exterminated by war and starvation. But Stalin had a lock on all his internal enemies since at least 1937 and they were alllllll dead or in the camps. I know Stalin thought about evacuating Moscow and sent his staff out. But the grand moustache didn't budge.
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  37. we all know tik is really a deep fake AI algorithm a bot driven by a mix of stalinist and fascist propaganda points. though, the speech synthesis is amzing! you can spot the visual artifacts if you step through it frame by frame
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  38. you blew it 5 minutes in claiming right handed square symbol is a death sign. you ought to cite a source for that peace of misinformation.
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  39. Comparing the USSR economy in 1920 to the USSR economy in 1970 isn't really possible; not merely for accounting reasons but also because of trade policy and scientific progress. Lots of things were invented from 1930-1970 and many of them were consumer items. In terms of housing stock for population the USSR housing crisis ended by the 1960s. Which is as good as you can get for a measure because it's comparing the electronic age to the steam age. No steam trains in 1970! Diesels instead! Comparable? Not really. USSR economy was dysfunctional but not That dysfunction after Khruschev. It could have tottered on indefinitely without Reagan . Another reason it's incomparable is that all of Eastern Europe wasn't occupied by the USSR in 1920 unlike the USSR in 1970. It's like comparing apples with pears.
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  40.  @MrJamesDoz  Where? A? Boo.
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  41.  @richardadams8036  even in 1941 you're not getting 10:1 kill ratios unless you include prisoners who later die in prisoner of war camps Did I mention? This was a war of extermination.
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  42. damnit TIK i was hoping for something like "genocide wasn't a crime in 1939 but was in 1945" which is the case. people love to talk about the Armenians who got thrown under the bus as if it's evidence of other than the fact it wasn't a crime prior to 1945. Eric Hunt rhymes with Mike Hunt, say it aloud for the lol...
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  43.  @MrJamesDoz  projection.
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  44. I am a polyglot and Russia expert. I speak English Russian and German fluently. You are best to learn German first. Only learn Russian after learning German. MHV can probably get you a research visit to the university of the Bundeswehr, and DAAD does have German language summer coures which I recommend because living in the country does so much to improve your language learning. Aspects of German which are different to English are similar to Russian yet easier in German, making it an excellent "bridge" language. E.g. German has 4 cases Russian 6 case exists only vestigially in English. There are some words which are found as cognates between German and Russian, yet not to English (mohren/morkov for example, which means carrot). Yes, you must learn Russian, but only after learning German. Don't try to learn both at once that will only confuse you. You will have little difficulty finding accurate German language materials on the topic of your interest. They will not contradict or add much to the English language material. However, knowing German DOES make learning Russian much easier! Welcome to the new cold war, fml.
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  45. 6:35 Those StuGs are Finnish.
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  46. but cheezeburger sunball snorkel!
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  47. would have been occupied but then the fun REALLY starts just ask Yugoslavia...
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  48. STIK TO OIL
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  49. one big diff between WWI & 2. Hitler knew to fight the war he would require domestic support and thus didn't skimp on plundering everyone else to feed the germans. except for the absence of coffee (nigh non existent) and tobacco (reserved for frontsoldaten) civilian life in the reich was sweet all the way into 1945. It's only around February/March 1945 that the domestic civilian consumer economy starts to crack. 3 months later they would know half as bad what they imposed on everyone else.
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  50. Pz IIs in 1941 would be used for scouting and clean up. A Pz II is still superior to Russian infantry. The 2d "Light" divisions had lots of Pz IIs. The four "Light" divisions were converted to Panzer divisions after the Polish campaign. 1st Light had a good mix but 2d had lots of Pz IIs. 3d and 4th light division also had lots of Pz IIs. Only 1st light had a normal mix of Is, IIs, 38s. None of the light divisions appear to have had Pz IIIs let alone IVs prior to conversion. These divisions were intended to be particularly mobile, fast, not to be used to break through but in exploitation of a break through. The concept in Poland proved inadequate, unnecessary, and so rather than form entirely new panzer divisions they were used as the base for panzer divisions by adding two more tank battalions. see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Light_Division_(Wehrmacht)
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