Comments by "Mitch Richards" (@mitchrichards1532) on "TIKhistory"
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@dayswithoutjewishtricks0416 Totally false and completely unimaginative BS response...
There is a definition of what a fact is, a definitive " historical method" (look up the term) used to establish facts, and revisionism does NOT recognize established fact or use the methodology to provide them. Revisionism remains much more of a faith based approach to History and relies on distortion, fabrication, etc. It appeals to people with a psychological need to be "in the know", "see things others don't", and above all, a need to feel in control of the world around them and not be a "sheep". That's you dude, and its all in YOUR head, just a bunch of self serving BS. Look up "conspiracy psychology" and you'll find that they have your profile, and they can accurately predict your reaction to information that F's with your self image as someone who thinks they can see through everything. Thank the cyber age for your world view, you're just an average Joe that's going along with the trends of the moment. "Awake", Red Pill, etc. is just the fad of the day. You have a retro mullet too? lol
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@svyatoslavleonenko9787 Hmmmm, combat ready... So, a formation with say 1000 tanks. How many trucks does that number of tanks require for logistics? It seems that the Soviets got that calculation wrong in a big way, no? Maybe thats because they only started forming units of that size 10 months prior to Op Barbarossa and didn;t have time to fully man, equip and train them to be able to operate as a unit and learn the lessons that come from that? If your 1,000 tank unit lacks trucks, lacks mechanics, lacks wireless radios to coordinate refuel, re-arm, maintenance, etc. and is untrained in large scale operations, is that combat capable? If so, by who's definition? Now, take that 1,000 tank unit and subtract hundreds of tanks and thousands of men, while still keeping it more or less untrained and how do you think it will do in combat with a 1st class enemy. So tell me about the battle of Brody and how the Soviet tank corps performed and why they performed that way?
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@svyatoslavleonenko9787 "Because that quantity of sov. troops was impossible to withdraw ". Not true, they're strategic dispositions clearly show they were spread over a great distance in width and depth. Many were engaged in building new defensive fortifications while stripping the old Stalin line. In order for the Red Army to conduct a strategic attack as Suvorov suggests, they required a mobilization of motorized assets from the Soviet industrial and civilian sector, which takes many weeks. There is no order to that effect or any evidence it was being done. It was however in the orders for Soviet mobilization, which were not executed. How do you account for the Red Army supposedly planning to attack and ignoring their own mobilization requirements in regard to the lifeblood of logistical support to their decisive maneuver units??? Just how do you conduct a strategic attack with undermanned, under equipped, under-trained Tank Corps that rely on a fraction of the logistical support required and those trucks are 4x2 with minimal cross country capability? Every Soviet offensive from Khalkin Gol, Finland, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Bagration, etc. that included a massive stockpile prior to the offensive, as well as deception and surprise, but this ONE single time, the largest offensive ever for the Red Army they decided to ignore all of their own expertise and just roll the dice? lol, seriously? Suvorov's theory is for fools...
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@svyatoslavleonenko9787 lol, ok you quoted tank statistics without anything else in the combined arms team or logistics... Hmmm, Wehrmacht, 600,000 motor vehicles with a 95% readiness rate. Soviet readiness rates? Probably around 50-60% on paper. In reality it was much lower. Why? Dunno...maybe because motorized equipment requires trained mechanics, with shop space, with tool sets, with electricity, with spare parts and service kits, oil and lubricants, etc. The Red Army went through a massive expansion during the purges and had a small fraction of the leadership that was required to man all of its units. If everyone is new, mostly incompetent...then who the Fck is training who???? The blind leading the blind??? Tell me again about the battle of Brody? Why did the Soviet formations of 1,000 tanks lose most of their strength before combat even happened?
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@svyatoslavleonenko9787 BTW: "Another problem stemmed from the failure to fully equip tank units like the mechanized corps with the vast range of other vehicles needed to make them truly mobile and effective formations. For instance, in terms of supporting the maintenance heavy mechanized corps, no less the vast numbers of rifle corps forming the Red Army's bulk, the Red Army of June 1941 was supposed to have 836,000 motor vehicles and tractors/prime movers on hand. Instead, it could only marshal 314,200 such vehicles on its books. Worse yet, only 77% of those were even in running condition. Fuel shortages were also endemic in spite of the fact that the Soviet Union was one of the world's leading oil producers. Some units, such as the 33rd Tank Division, reported shortages in fuel, oil, and lubricants reaching well over 90 percent in the days prior to the onset of the German invasion. Among other things, this meant that the basis for supporting mobile operations was almost completely lacking - a huge problem given the comparative advantages enjoyed by the Wehrmacht in fighting a war of maneuvour. Again this shows where sheer numbers hardly tell the whole story. After all, the Red Army's tank park dwarfed the Wehrmacht's own tank strength. And, in the first five months of 1941 some 1,503 of the 1,684 tanks rolling from Soviet factories were T-34 and KV-1's .But how many of these tanks really could be used? Or for that matter, how well could the Red Army even fight, given shortages in trucks were far from the only problem." http://globeatwar.com/article/state-red-army-june-22-1941
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