Comments by "Ember Fist" (@emberfist8347) on "Top 7 Red Army Myths - World War 2" video.

@nordoceltic7225 Nah the plan was honestly doomed from a purely logistical standpoint. Germany was supremely top heavy from a lack of standardization with almost 2 dozen types of trucks all needed their own supply chains and that isn’t getting into their tanks and such. Plus they assumed that the population wouldn’t grow to hate the Nazis more than Stalin despite them taking their food and killing them. And that is just scratching the surface of Barbarossa’s problems. We could start with the Germans tempting fate by naming the invasion after a man who tried and failed to invade Russia.
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Oversimplified is meant to be taken as a joke and they get details wrong about western history as well. Their World War I video points to the Zimmerman Telegram as the reason the Us joined the war when in reality while it and Luthisasia were factors, the last straw was the Germans sinking American shipping with U-Boats.
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The Mujahaideen kicked the Soviets out by the time the movie hit theaters.
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@michaelsingleton6430 And the facts backed him up. The Soviets actually canned production of the GAZ-64 because they were using Jeeps more than their own trucks and the amphibious Ford GPA was so popular with the Soviets they copied the design with the GAZ-46 which later showed in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The Seep as it was nicknamed was actually more popular with the Soviets than with the GIs.
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@wolfdima No the Mujahedeen were booted out by the Taliban.
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Part of the reason is they had far more of a population than Germany did. Russia could have last 1 million men and barely put a dent in their menpower. Germany was another story. The human wave myth also mentioned in this story is another reason for this myth. As mentioned in the video, The Soviets did use human wave attacks to soften up their opponents and were more callous to casualties on the operational and strategic level, but they weren’t just throwing bodies at the ball until they began to stick.
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Another detail about their manpower shortages. It wasn’t unknown at Stalingrad for Soviet engineers to hop into tanks as soon as they left the assembly line as it was quicker than training soldiers to pilot them.
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