Comments by "Jussi M. Konttinen" (@jussim.konttinen4981) on "I agree with Christer Bergström's "Operation Barbarossa: 9 popular myths busted" article" video.

  1.  @KnightofAges  Our beloved father of nations is resting his eyelids.
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  2.  @sergeontheloose  Russian cars are very expensive for their owners, therefore they are also the best engineers 😉
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  3.  @richardadams8036  Or miscalculated as civilians. Take a look at French riots with fire bombs flying. 3: 1 seems more credible. Women also served in the Red Army and typically in developing countries the median age is around 28 years. There are not so many civilians to begin with.
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  4.  @sthomas7002  Dumdum bullets used by the Soviet Union were banned at the Hague convention.
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  5.  Dwarov 1  "No-one respects a country with a poor army. All respect a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish Army and the representatives of it here, General Heinrichs and General Oinonen." - Joseph Stalin
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  6.  @zexal4217  How many fled to South America or Sweden? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalervo_Kurkiala
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  7.  @canadious6933  Exactly. And don't forget that Italy joined the Allies in 1943 and the rest of Axis turned against Germany in 1944, so the Axis countries' losses should be counted as Allies.
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  8.  Dwarov 1  Nope. Glantz's numbers are similar. If Finns are to be blamed for the events in Leningrad, then losses must also be accepted. If you add civilians, a total of 1 + 1 = 2 million people died because the Karelians refused to collectivize their farms.
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  9.  Dwarov 1  It's unlikely that the Soviet leader gives such a detailed breakdown of nationalities. There were also Finns in North Ossetia and Austrian soldiers in Rovaniemi. Khrushchev was well aware of the situation. The Winter War was/is known as Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.
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  10.  Dwarov 1  That would explain why they couldn't break through in 1944. https://images.alko.fi/images/cs_srgb,f_auto,t_large/cdn/944668/jaloviina-tahdeton.jpg
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  11.  Dwarov 1  Petsamo, which was the German front responsibility, was surrendered by political decision. Elsewhere, the border fence is at the same location as in 1940. The actual fighting ended far beyond Operation Barbarossa's starting point.
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  12.  Dwarov 1  I wouldn't call that the decisive breakthrough, in September 1944. https://i.pinimg.com/474x/ce/8b/2d/ce8b2dc8e554ddab50c9f300955aa29d.jpg 1743 and 2020 http://rauha.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/turku.png 1940 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Moskovan_rauha.png
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  13.  Dwarov 1  Finland lost exactly 95k KIA 1939-45 including Nordic volunteers and the war against Germany. Glantz has indeed counted all Germans as Finnish and fallen. Less than 30k of Germans died, mostly in Soviet Karelia.
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  14.  Dwarov 1  Here is a list of all the KIAs. In total almost 95,000. https://youtu.be/J2TfMJ_utnE
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  15.  Dwarov 1  They couldn't record the discussion in Moscow as with Hitler, but I trust more on two Finnish generals than on a random and anonymous denialist.
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  16.  Dwarov 1  Do you even know what year it was?
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  17.  Dwarov 1  6 April 1948. That's enough, you are an idiot.
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  18.  Dwarov 1  Finns were never forced to dance like in North Korea. This was filmed during the Battle of the Bulge. Helsinki, the Last Day of 1944 / January 1st -45 https://youtu.be/tT41pOtcmoY
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  19. As far as I can remember, the German register contains the data of 18 million soldiers. Although not all were at the same point at the same time, 5-6 million casualties did indeed form a gigantic herd.
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  20.  @sthomas7002  If you go down that line, you should count all the prohibited rifle bullets, etc.
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  21. Savonian engineering from Vieremä. The municipality has a population of 3,670. Einari Vidgren (1943-2010) was a king in this county after inventing these machines: https://youtu.be/zzQfY3lFrw0
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  22. More specifically, Poland and the Soviet Union, many nations of which were non-Slavic. Slovakia, Serbia and Russian immigrants were allies of Germany. Certainly rape occurred according to the present definition. In the United States, for example, marital rape was not a crime.
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  23. Actually, the Austrians had no trouble near the Arctic Circle due to better food. Starting at the Prime Meridian and heading eastwards, the parallel 48° north passes through: France, Stalingrad, Minnesota etc. Basically, the Germans starved to death in Stalingrad. Children's Christmas party near the Arctic Circle in 1943: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HH0Ni1_ItQ4/XES7cPqs7WI/AAAAAAAACWM/LQhin_txu30zRwu37HA2Q8C3xA68uJIywCLcBGAs/s1600/0290_00017.jpg
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  24. These people were mistakenly executed as spies in the Irafsky district, December 31, 1942: (Vladimir) Sandirovitsh Hamitsajev (born 1926), Sandir Orazmagovitsh Hamitsajev (born 1888), Danil Orazmagovitsh Hamitsajev (born 1890), Gubu Hortijev and Dumbul Ivanovitsh Gabejev. Two were Red Army soldiers: Sergeant Jevgeni Durnev and private Anatoli Malyshenko. According to SS-Rottenführer (Corporal) Paavo Merelä, the execution was ordered by the Finnish company commander, SS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Karl-Erik Ladau (1916-2009). There is no other evidence of his involvement.
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  25.  Ajgleskorv I don't think they were so helpless. Stalin was suffocated.
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  26.  kiril marinov  Apparently, the Soviet Union did not solve the problems caused by nationalism
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  27.  kiril marinov  What does it matter where Crimea is inside the Soviet Union? Some have argued that nationalism was settled, but it was really a union of states, not a federation.
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  28.  Dwarov 1  Unlike Glantz, Khrushchev saw the events inside and had access to the Finnish archives. A "Winter War" lasted until 1943. A truce was realized before the snowfall in September 1944..All Finns have been located and buried and the lost are counted as dead. You have obviously wrong numbers.
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  29. More specifically, Indo-Europeans. Even though people living in certain areas are not subspecies, they are never identical.
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  30. I would guess that half of them were Social Democrats and most of them were born after the Civil War. Perhaps they were the key to Finland's success, albeit numerically insignificant group. On the other hand, the alliance with Japan merely made Axis' position more difficult. Effective diplomacy might have changed the course of war. Stalinists cannot be turned around, but the mutual persecution of Social Democrats may also explain why millions of Germans surrendered, though the democratic future of Czechoslovakia turned out to be a lie.
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