Comments by "USHANKA SHOW" (@UshankaShow) on "Why Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union failed | John Mearsheimer and Lex Fridman" video.

@1wun1 Fun fact: in 1942, when German troops reached the Volga River and the Caucasus Mountains, they occupied just 5% of the Russian Soviet Federation. FIVE PERCENT. Look at the map. It was hopeless for the Germans from day one.
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@symmetry08 I didn't get that impression reading German war memoirs. My grandfather survived WW2 because his whole unit surrended near Smolensk in 1941.
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Your statement doesn't match with the amount of Soviet POWs that Germans captured in the summer/fall of 1941.
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@michaelfern4079 Hitler didn't have time to be fully prepared. Stalin was about to attack Germany and was amassing huge forces by the border. July 6 was the date of the Red Army invasion according to some modern Russian historians. I would recommend reading The Icebreaker by Viktor Suvorov.
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@1wun1 Yes, and unfinished Great Britain behind their backs. Stalin still had Chelyabinsk to make tanks and Komsomolsk-na-Amure to build planes.
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@Jakegotjuice Did they? Faster than Poland fell? Did you ever look at the USSR map?
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@1wun1 Paulus would disagree with your statement. Winter in Stalingrad rings a bell?
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@joecool9739 The plan was to attack first so Red Army wasn't trained to fight the defensive war. So they constantly "counter-attacked" thru the summer and fall of 1941 without much success. Lesson learned was only by 1943, during the Kursk battle
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@Jakegotjuice Winter would still arrive and German soldiers would still freeze.
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@utkur765 Obviously, the Russians had winter clothing, as well as special additives for the fuel and lubricating oil. They have winters like 1941 almost every year. Not Germany, they hardly see snow there in the winter. They marched into Soviet Russia, just like the French in 1812, not prepared for the Russian winter.
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 @michaelfern4079 Hitler had no time to prepare. Stalin was about to launch his Red Army in the early July and sweep over Europe
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Not "eventually". On Sunday, July 6, 1941. That's why the major forces of the Red Army were hiding in the forests near the border.
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