Comments by "Alan Pennie" (@alanpennie8013) on "How close was the Soviet Union to Collapse in 1942-1943?" video.

  1.  @andrewpestotnik5495  Napoleon's ghost nods.
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  2. The very worst were mines in The Arctic. The ones around Magadan most infamously.
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  3.  @uncleJan1  The Soviet victory was an extraordinary achievement.
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  4. The weapons were probably the least valuable Lend Lease shipments, behind spam, trucks and communications equipment.
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  5. Pretty much. Could The Soviets have destroyed the German Army and liberated their country without Lend Lease? It's doubtful.
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  6. It's estimated that about 1.5 million Gulag prisoners died during the 30 years the system was in existence. It would certainly be interesting to know how much of this loss occurred during the war.
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  7.  @jussim.konttinen4981  It probably was from a pure cost/ benefit pov. Though The Ardennes offensive allowed The Russians to get to Berlin a good deal earlier than they otherwise would have.
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  8.  @haroldfiedler6549  They actually were emancipated in the sense that they were released from the camps, in the hope they might be able to feed themselves outside.
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  9.  @MidKnightblue0013  Spam, spam, spam, spam. I suppose if you would starve otherwise even spam becomes palatable.
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  10. Immediately attacked (and probably destroyed) The Kwantung Army in Manchuria. That's why The Japanese didn't do it.
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  11. He did. But as he also said there was also a mass release of prisoners because they couldn't be fed in the camps.
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  12. It's standard Western usage now I'm afraid.
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  13.  @82dorrin  The latter, I would think.
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  14.  @daarksideyt  There were many reasons why an invasion of France wasn't possible until 1944. But you're right in suggesting that even if it had been possible it would have been a bad decision to proceed with it if the cost had been a decline in the ability of the Soviet Army to kill Germans.
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  15. Yes. I'm afraid he's a bit inclined to parrot Austrian nonsense. But apart from that his videos are pretty good.
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  16. POW Gulag memoirs make interesting reading. I remember reading one by an Austrian POW who was relentlessly scathing about Russian work habits. He thought the Russians never finished a job properly.
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