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

  1. Finland was a co-belligerent, not an ally. The difference is that allies are bound to fight for each other if either is attacked. This is a very fine distinction perhaps but it is the case. Finland did not have to attack the USSR in 1941 as an ally would. Finland was not obligated to keep fighting in 1944 when it switched sides because it was only a co-belligerent not an ally. NATO is an alliance. The USA in 1812-1814 was a French co-belligerent, not an ally. Co-belligerents are likelier to be able to negotiate their way out of the ass kicking that allies to a losing power get. See USA 1814, Finland 1944. See also Japan 1945 (being a German ally got it two atomic black eyes).
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  2.  @TheImperatorKnight  it's likely 53 degrees Fahrenheit not celsius. Which month?
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  3.  @TheImperatorKnight  well, that's clearly summer so it must be celsius and a misreading, possibly due to being surrounded by all that hot armor OR possibly because they are reading the temperature where it actually matters which is INSIDE A TANK
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  4. True, it mightbe a very basic translator's error. Or that they measured the temperature inside the tanks. tanks back then obviously had no airconditioning and were terribly hot. 127 f is entirely possible inside a tank in the summer there.
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  5. When you count Hungarian and Rumanian forces it's kind of an obvious oversight to omit the fact that most of them are stationed respectively in Hungary and Rumania due to mutual mistrust. In numbers the USSR forces ranged against the Germans consistently at all points outnumbered the axis forces fielded in the east. Also the article wrongly states that BTs and T-26 (which it doesn't even bother to name) were "outdated" when in fact they are equivalents to Pz. II and Pz III at this stage of the war. T-26 is not a terrible tank, just ask Japan... The hull was reconfigured into the SU-76 a very capable tank hunter.
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  6. Black rye bread is normal in Russia and eastern Europe. I like it very much. SO MUCH RACISM
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  7. Mike, I've seen TIK make lots of illogical and unsubstantiated claims like this one: there wasn't mass looting of civilian's food during the stalingrad siege because by the time food shortages mattered there were no civilians left to loot. They were all either dead, evacuated, or serving in the German army. I'm sick of people who lie for Russia claiming to be honest, claiming to be factual and then doing obvious falsifications.
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  8.  @TheImperatorKnight  prior to the state they likely bartered. at this time specie's use value explains its rise as a medium of exchange.
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  9.  @TheImperatorKnight  I can answer you. The rise of numisa is generally within recorded history; states issue official coinage for the convenience of trade. So they will define a certain weight usually by displacement of water, as having the value of "one ingot" or whatever the name of the currency. e.g. one pound is a pound of sterling silver. However the state immediately has the same incentive to fraud as private traders usually by adultering the metal in the coins. Coinage arose because it was more convenient than lumps of metal whic need weighed and also because the state promises the specie is of the declared weight and promises to punish counterfeiters and fraudsters (coin clippers e.g.) with penal sanctions, usually death. The rise of coinage is within recorded history, it's fairly well understood idk why you act like it's some mystery or other than empirically observable.
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  10.  Dwarov 1  ah, Soveit style ethnic cleansing, I know it only too well.
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  11.  Dwarov 1  Ah yes, Russia's usual act claiming literally everything adjacent to Russia is also Russia How did that work out in Donbas again?
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  12. thanks; though ... on paper in practice most anything is possible. usually around 8 men an SMG or 2 maybe a machine gun (or not) usually no radio. mostly rifles, even in the later years of the war.
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  13. Please read Mein Kampf. You've made a straw man argument.
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  14. your english is great , really. I read a great article in Military History Quarterly about the battle in Budapest and yeah it was terrible but no Stalingrad terrible, still the same thing: surrounded units running low on supplies inevitably crushed.
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  15. this is why we know you are a spy. SOCHI. SOCHI is STALIN'S Last RESORT!
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  16.  Aggressive Tubesock  Holodomir, NKVD summary executions, Gulags, Katyn, Rape of Berlin, Mayak Kyshtym, Aral Sea, Chernobyl the glorious DICTATORSHIP which killed off millions was reall fucking horrible.
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  17. did 95% of liberated jews who were also being starved and worked to death die when liberated? NOPE So yeah, you're line on soviet treatment of Stalingrad prisoners is laughably wrong. QED.
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  18. Stick to tanks: Just make certain they are made of GOLD! haha great video!
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  19.  @TheImperatorKnight  ... can we tell them about the top secret PANZERBANK yet?!?
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  20. "they don't work in rain" OH YES THEY DO said anyone who actually served in any army anywhere ever Trust me. They Work In The Rain. though yeah, kinda pointless at night.
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  21.  @TheImperatorKnight  the more factors are: a slave economy plundering corpses can't work once its exterminated all the slaves.
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  22. "I'm not a God" - TIK What more proof does anyone need? TIK is not a god and isn't pro this or anti that BECAUSE HE IS SATAN
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  23.  @TheImperatorKnight  In Russian, of course. Several. It's a topic of perennial horse beating. Not much in German, in contrast. Also the horse flesh has been stripped bare. The horse is undead.
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  24.  @TheImperatorKnight  Your Russophone friend and aide ANTON will have insights. Star Media is where I would check first. Just the tractor factory has a dozen or more videos.
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  25.  @LoganLS0  Hegel and Hitler, probably also Nietzche believe ideas are prior to and superior to material facts.They are both basically continuations of neo/platonic formalism as opposed to materialism.
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  26. 1 minute in not even close to first
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  27. Adiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiedas.
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  28. Kellner was last seen in a secret underground pub pouring drafts. Don't believe me? Go to any pub in Germany and ask for Kellner. He is super famous!
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  29.  @simplicius11  You don't suppose that Stalin might ... lie? You know, downplay the contribution of the western allies, inflate the five year plans successes? Of course he wouldn't. Good boy. Want a cookie?
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  30. this is one of your best videos. thank you and good work! I've read up about this campaign, despite that I learned some new things.
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  31. legally speaking Syria was a French mandate, not a colony. Though, whether and in what form the League of Nations Mandate system would continue/change after the war was entirely uncertain.
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  32. he went from far left (too far left for spd!) to far right (arrowcross) to communist under USSR occupation because HE WAS A LYING OPPORTUNIST ALL ALONG lololol Why we fight 2.0: Why we HATE Politicians.
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  33. There is Montying evidence that a Certain Briton is to blame....
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  34. In a totalitarian regime there is no private; total means all means ALL aspects of society in a totalitarian dictatorship are under the total control of the dictator. authoritarian regimes in contrast don't claim total control but do claim absolute control in those areas subject to their power.
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  35. This is brilliant in your attention to detail; what percentage of paper strength are the units on each side at this point? I'm guessing around 60% for German infantry, 90% for german artillery, and 20% for german tanks? And maybe on average 40% accross the board for the Russians actual as opposed to planned strength? but i really don't know and hope for an expert answer.
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  36. silver was the principal money in feudal china until late modernity. in prefeudal china cowries were cash. really. gold never took off as a medium of exchange in china. idk why. this does illustrate the fact that even species' exchange value is socially determined, not natural.of course, specie has use value which is usually greater than that of paper currency.
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  37. Ah, Russia, Hitler's co-belligerent, which invaded Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland all of this well before Barbarossa ever happened. So yeah, sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
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  38. What I really wonder is why the nazis decided to fight in Stalingrad as opposed to beseige and starve it as in Leningrad. This is devil's logic of course; how to kill off as many Russians as possible regardless of age or sex. By fighting the nazis guarantied they would take casualties; when you are fighting an enemy with twice as many bodies you want to avoid taking casualties. SO... given their genocidal goal, why did the nazis fight in Stalingrad or fight for it? Strategically all they needed was to cut the Don. Genocidally they could have besieged and not fought inside the city. Soviets had a close combat advantage. Stalingrad battle looks increasingly irrational from the nazi perspective.
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  39.  @artiomzh5042  Stalin fostered what in English would be called "Great Russian nationalism" (Российский) (so does Putin). Dugin and Navalniy in contrast promote all-Russian i.e. россияне nationalism. USSR never abandoned its claimed ideal of internationalist socialism; instead the suppression of nationalist tendencies was simply halted during the war. Stalin was not a Nazbol, though some nazbols might call themselves Stalinist. TIK thinks there is some ideological contradiction irony or negationism in the revival of great-Russian nationalism. Hey, it was also a great time to be an Orthodox Christian, so why not pick up on that contradiction too? Thing is.. this ideological bullshit really doesn't matter when your family behind enemy lines are literally being shot starved and worked to death.
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  40.  @TheImperatorKnight  good quality takes time.
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  41. I guess it was a russian video i watched, or maybe was TIK? 1) Anti-aircraft -- there was MUCH greater AA losses at Stalingrad than Demyansk 2) Weather -- the weather simply stopped a lot of flights at Stalingrade. There were much greater losses due to anti-aircraft at Stalingrad as compared to Demyansk. At Stalingrad the weather often stopped flights entirely for days at a time. This video correctly points out the greater distances to fly, and an earlier video iirc pointed out the losses on the ground of around 100 transport a/c when the Russians' tankers overran an airfield. I did listen to it once through and don't think TIK pointed out the SIGNIFICANTLY greater losses at Stalingrad as compared to Demyanks. I first ran into that arguement on a Russian language video. Maybe it hasn't worked its way into the English language literature yet?
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  42. Why a knife? Well, what if i run out of bullets? And what if I want to kill someone quietly? And what if my rifle gets all dusty and breaks. I do think drones and AI are super important. Thing is in war everything breaks all of it in fact the enemy is TRYING to break your fancy toys! And so knife knife knife.
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  43. AT SOME POINT THERE WILL BE A GUITAR VIDEO! hold him to it!!!
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  44. seventh, but by the time i get done typing maybe only top 20
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  45. Go write a book or at least a law review article about this I look forward to all the laughter by any actual lawyer.
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  46. Dont make me splain Ratshaus dats whar dem dare nazis at
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  47. I am speechless, so impressed am I. THANK YOU!
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  48. Have you ever thought of yourself, perhaps, as that which the Russians call a "useful idiot"? Someone who say buys into conspiracy theories or regards Russian attacks against a formally neutral small country as - justified? Because WOW YOUR READING OF FINNISH HISTORY IS HORRIBLE. Lavrov is proud of you!
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  49. I see dead people
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  50.  @tihomirrasperic  I am not saying you are wrong but i never heard this before and speak Russian and German fluently. Do you have a source for this claim?
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