Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "What If? Operation Unthinkable" video.

  1. ​@lightningstrike5024 They did not have that much manpower. They may have spent that much dying, but they did not have that much on the Frontline at any time. The American army for context was 11 million strong alone. Both sides had roughly 6 million men at the front when they met in Germany, but while the Allies lost combined only about a million men (outside of the Indian famine which affected little of the main players) while the USSR lost 20 million people combined due to the German occupation. This also doesn't discuss the equipment difference of a fully mechanized force that the Russians never actually faced, and against the two largest air forces in the world, with a logistics chain so good they would later bypass a Russian blockade of Berlin.
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  2. I really don't get why the Allies losing "tens of thousands" is a problem when the soviets had lost hundreds of thousands. The Allies combined lost maybe a million? Soviets lost 20 million people total and somewhere between 6 million and 10 million dead soldiers. The Allies also still had reserves
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