Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "The Armchair Historian"
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Another clueless Pole whinging that "Britain & France betrayed us".
If it hadn't been for the British & French declaration of war in 1939, regardless of their inability to give meaningful support to Poland in its "hour of need", or if the UK had surrendered in june 1940 after the collapse of France (as the ENTIRE world expected us to) then Poland would have remained under nazi domination for DECADES. Remember that apart from Britain and France (who between them collectively squandered 1.1 million of their own citizen's lives, as well as both bankrupting themselves as nations) absolutely NO ONE in the so called "international community" raised a finger or cared whether Poland existed or not in 1939.
Without the continued opposition of the British empire to nazism from June 1940 onwards, opposition which bankrupted the UK and cost her 460,000 of her citizen's lives, there would have been:
NO D-Day and war in the Meditteranean to draw sizeable wehrmacht resources from the war on the Eastern Front.
NO strategic bombing of German cities and war industries.
NO interdiction of German global sea trade by the Royal Navy.
NO massive supply of weapons and war materiel from the west to the USSR, once their former allies nazi Germany had turned on them.
NO utterly crucial strategic intelligence courtesy of Britain's (not Poland's before you say it) "ULTRA" program.
With the result that the USSR would have collapsed somewhere in 1942/43, leaving the nazis in control of the whole of Europe, and their extermination camps still operating on Polish soil into the 1950s, 60s, or even 70s.
For those Ignorant modern day Poles, on your way out, please remember to kneel at the altar dedicated to the combined 1.1 million lives sacrificed by the UK and France in order to topple the nazism that was murdering and torturing YOUR country when NOBODY else cared whether you lived or died.
And for all current honourable, and deeper thinking Poles, please accept our best wishes from the UK.
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Eagerly awaiting the follow up programs of the contemporary French, Belgian, German and Portuguese colonisations of Africa. Oh didn't you know? The French and Belgian episodes in particular will be ESPECIALLY interesting viewing. (I wont be holding my breath, seeing as this appears to be another anti-Brit lefty propaganda channel)
Maybe we can look forward to other episodes looking at other empires from history.... Mongol, Persian, Roman, Macedonian, Chinese, Aztec, Incan, Khmer, Soviet, Malian, Spanish to name but a few. All of which had deeply unsavoury aspects in their dealings when viewed in a modern light. No need to just concentrate on the British empire and pretend everyone else is "clean". Unless you're a clueless lefty dupe that is.
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The nazis had planned for a short war, and had built up a large prewar bank of excellent pilots, but made insufficient planning for long term maintenance of those numbers, so as the initial cadre of excellent pilots inevitably got "whittled down" through 1939-42, due to the Germans lack of strategic planning those losses were replaced with a flow of ever lower quality pilots, with the result that those remaining experienced pilots were forced to fly till either a nervous breakdown or death removed them from duty, though a tiny percentage of their very best pilots racked up hundreds of kills (mostly against the early poorly trained and equipped soviet VVT pilots) but as an organisation the luftwaffe was bled dry and ended up from 1944 onwards sending barely trained Hitler Youth lads up to face the ever increasing onslaught of the well prepared allied air forces.
The Allied air forces for their part routinely rotated their pilots out of combat and into training posts here in the UK & the Americas, with the result that while individual pilots racked up far lower scores, the allied airforces as a whole quickly overtook the luftwaffe numbers of excellently trained pilots, so much so that by mid 1944 the allies were massively scaling back their fighter pilot training programs due to the large surplus of very capable allied pilots.
The result was the luftwaffe had a MUCH smaller number of "aces" (+5 kills) but with a tiny number of much higher kill tallies, the allies had many MANY times more "aces" (with 5 kills or more) than the luftwaffe, but with no outlandish kill tallies.
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