Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "Why Soviet Logistics weren’t as nightmarish as German Logistics in WW2" video.

  1. You can't. That's why the Soviet economy was rather well suited to wartime conditions.
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  2. I have heard it said that the Russians lost in 1905 because The Trans - Siberian Railway was single tracked.
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  3.  Blesava Konjina  He didn't develop his argument well but I thought it was a good one. Because price signals are lacking military supply is almost bound to be less efficient than civilian
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  4. Indeed. The Russians could have paid with natural resources, but the Americans had plenty of those.
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  5.  @konstantinkelekhsaev302  That seems to be the consensus. It's a dreadful thought that the Soviets might have suffered even more casualties than they did
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  6. American tanks were a bit rubbish. Trucks were much more useful.
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  7. That's a good point. The badness of the roads must have limited the usefulness of the trucks
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  8.  @damyr  Have to agree. The US dating system is super - weird. Though we're not going to make any friends talking about 11/9.
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  9. Lend Lease allowed each party to produce what they were best at producing, tanks for the Soviets, trucks for the Americans.
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  10.  @TheImperatorKnight  Pretend - lend
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  11. Pretty sure it was being organised before Pearl Harbor.
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  12. August 1941 in fact.
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  13. Definitely. Given how bad German rail transport was to start with the partisans could really do damage
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