Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

  1. Hmm, Russian memes
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  2. Underrated comment...
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  3.  Niek Vels  human vave tactic is a Cold War myph. Just like "1 rifle per 3 men" (USSR produced more weapons than mobilized troops in every period of war). Also you overrating the Lend-Lease help, saying that USSR was totaly depended on it during the all war - most of Allied Lend-Lease (70%) came to USSR after 1944, when USSR didn't need it, and it was absolutely clear that Germany would lose in following months. In 1941-42 Allies supplied USSR very bad, (only 7%). Allied contribution from land-combat perspective also overrated, and I can explain why.
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  4.  Niek Vels  more than 50% of all German millitary infrastructure in 1930s-1941 was build on Americian investments. One Americian oil company, that was registered in other country, supplied Germany by oil to 1943. Because due to the Great Depression in the capitalist world ( I am not communist, I am for capitalism and against communism), Americian investors worked in non-capitalist countries, like Germany, USSR and etc., where weren't crisis, because there weren't market economy. (Sorry for my English). In 1940 ALL European countries, that weren't conquerred by Germany, were or millitary allies of Germany (Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary), or economicial allies of Germany ( Sweden supplied Germany by iron, Portugal by alluminium, Switzerland invested gold into German reichs-marks, USSR supplied Germany by bread, oil, resources). All Europe was allied or conquerred by Germany, that used for this army, that was build on Americian money. But you say how bad USSR was, but factually it did the same thing that rest of the world and US, because everyone was afraid Germany
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  5.  Niek Vels  Germany lost North Africian campagin mostly because German army was out of fuel, because in the Eastern Front at that time was going on the battle of Stalingrad, and Germany spent all resources for it. Italian WW1 era army, that was totaly untrained and backwarded, and wasn't motivated to fight for Mussolini, lost few battles in land before Rommel arrived. Also empty Lybian desert - Axis didn't had supplies because of it, when the British army was supplied from local industry in Egypt, and didn't had problems with supplies. Italians lost nearly 110 000 soldiers, mostly captured. At that time Rommel arrived, and pushed Allies to El-Alamein. But due to the battle of Stalingrad and fuel shortages, Rommel, that didn't had fuel, evacuated his army to Tounisia. French troops in Algeria weren't motivated to fight for their conquerrors, Germans, and when Americians arrived to Algeria, 50 000 French soldiers surrendered, adter losing 1 000 KIA. Italian WW1 era navy, was destroyed by British modern navy, as a result of which Axis was encercled in Tounisia, cut off, where without supplies 110 000 German and 210 000 Italian soldiers surrendered. After Soviet victory in Stalingrad, where Germans lost 650 000 soldiers only killed, much more injured and 90 000 captured, and German allies lost nearly 700 000, Germans evacuated from Rjew ( city in ~250 km left of Moscow, that was road and raillway knot), for which Germans lost 150 000 KIA in defense during 1941-43. Soviets in the winter offensive liberated Kuban' (placed norther of Caucasus, from Caucasus to Ukraine and Kasahstan), capturing, injuring or killing nearly 600 000 Axis troops, and entered East Ukraine. Only at that time to USSR came normal portion of Lend-Lease - 23% of total. Soviets pushed Geans to central Ukraine, Germans lost 150 000 soldiets, but Soviet offensive from East Ukraine to Belarus was stopped by counter-offensive from south to north - protrusion near Kursk. Germans attempted to encercle Soviets, but general Konev decided to suppourt partisans in German rears, resulting lack of supplies. Also Soviet int. captured few german high command officers, and Soviets knew when Germans would attack, screwing up them by artillery. But due to the German technological advantage, Soviets would suffer 3 times more losses, but artillery decided course of battle. Soviets won battle of Kursk, where were destroyed or captured more than 2 000 German tanks - Tigers and etc., and Germany lost nearly 400 000 men captured, wounded and killed. Germany didn't had soldiers to stop Allies in the Sicily due to the battle of Kursk, and with 3 to 1 numericial superiority Allies succeded, simply landing behind German lines in Italy without serious fighting, capturing in Sicily 110 000 mostly Italian troops. Italian army was disbanded after revolution against Mussolini. If there wouldn't be the battle of Kursk, with no Eastern Front, Germany could deploy several times more soldiers against Western Allies, and in 1943 would be a stalemate, because without battle of Kursk, Allies would face 1 000 000 German army in Italy, but not 160 000, as it was in the reality. The same thing about Normandy landing, Germany hold most of it's army in the Eastern front, 4 000 000 troops army. And only small force of 380 000 soldiers were placed by German command in Normandy. As a result Allied 3 500 000 army, with numericial superiority 10 to 1 simply pushed German forces in flanks, and encercled them in Caen and Marseille. Soviet troops started offensive in Belarus, and Germany simply didn't have reinforcements for the Normandy, because Soviets encercled few armies in Belarus, and all German reinforcements were sent to the Eastern front, and German command decided to not defend France, and German troops after were concentrated in German borders - Allies simply liberated France in 2 weeks without fighting, thanks to Soviets. Allied contribution in WW2 is Lend-Lease, bombings of Germany, that resulted of lose of 60% of German millitary production and 90% oil, battles in the seas. Pacific theather wasn't serioius, because Japan didn't had oil production, and Americians won battes in the Pacific after Japanese troops were out of ammo, because without fuel Japan can't resupply them. All battles in Pacific were looked like "the Americians and Japanese WW1 era army are fighting against each other in stalemate, but then Japanese , that didn't have supplies, found themselves out of ammo, and Americians without serious casualities are defeating disarmed Japanese troops on islands. And backwarded Japanese fleet, that limited because Japan can't produce new ships when it don't have fuel to existing ones. After that Americians placed airfields on islands, and bombed Japan, destroying most of it's millitary production, cities, innocent civillian population, including usage of high-tech bombs. At that time UK passively fought against small and unsignificant force in Indo-China, and USSR at the end of the war captured Manchjuria, where everyone surrendered without fighting. China all this time was a stalemate, for which Japan spent half of it's resources. After all that Japan capitulated".
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  6.  @gefreiterr  Germans lost more died in this operation, they lost nearly 250 000 KIA, while the Soviets lost 178 000 KIA
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  7.    US in 1945 was stronger than USSR - nuclear weapons, strategic bombers, better equipment and more educated personnel. At the end of war US have numerious superiority.
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  8.  @Sobercapybara  yes, UK totaly was dependent on US Lend-Lease. I am not trying to say something bad about Western Front in WW2, I only said, that battles on the West were won with suppourt from the East, and sometimes mostly because of the East. Also Axis was backwarded in some points - lack of fuel, every Axis country except Germany have WW1 or enterwar millitary, and thesis, that "USSR won only because of Allies" is wrong.
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  9.    no, Soviet Union did't planned to conquer Germany. USSR had defense and counter-attack plan against Germany, and in 1939 was discharge valtage between countries
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  10.    Do you have evidence of your words? The Union had a border defense plan and a subsequent counter-attack on German territory. And even if the USSR had a plan of an attack on Germany, which is very likely, this does not mean that it would attack. Any country has a plan in advance to attack its enemy. China has a 100% plan for invading the United States, the United States and NATO have a plan of action against Russia. With regard to the partition of Poland, it happened at the initiative of Hitler in order to defuse relations between the countries.
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  11.  Uddipan Mondal  greatest millitary is France. 1100+ victories, conquest of Europe and tactical victory on Russia (but strategic lost) in 1812, conquest of half of Africa, half of Asia, wars against Britain, Holy Roman Empire, Germany. French millitary historically is greatest
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  12.  @Sobercapybara  I'm not said it. Also, I can't deny the Americian contribution in production power, in battle for Atlantic, in bombings of Germany. There weren't serious victories in Africa or Italy, but big Allied contribution was - bombings of Germany destroyed nearly 60% of all it's millitary production between 1943 and 1944. Most of US supplies to USSR came in 1943-44, when USSR already won few battles and it was obvious that Germany couldn't win, but also this is stupud to deny how Lend-Lease helped to Union, even if Union could won without it. Allied contribution was economicial power for USSR and UK, strategic bombers, and sometimes victories over smaller and weaker parts of Axis forces, and downfall of Japan. Soviet contribution was overrated in USSR during the Cold war, and in Russia at now also are existing some Soviet myphs about this war.
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  13. There is nothing wonderful. Italy had WW1 era untrained army without supplies
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  14.    for rape in the red army was criminal responsibility, and cases of rape were isolated. In general, this is called revenge. The Katyn massacre has nothing to do with the German-Soviet war
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  15. Also Bernard Montogemy : 10th place in world rating of generals
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  16.  @aidentherabbit5545  they were dropped in long distances to avoid German resistance - Germans weren't idiots, and they defended air space near bridges well after Normandy experience
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  17. Russia outnumbers Ukraine in FPV drones few times, but author made a preview where Russian soldier is running away from drone
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  18.  John Cornell  no, germans were defeated in East before they started to diverting troops on West. Invasion of Italy was succesful only because Germany didn't had too much troops
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  19.  John Cornell  Hitler cancelled oparation Cutadelle after german armoured units in Kursk were destroyed or become bad shaped. In Italy Germany had small army of 160 000 men against 540 000 allies, Italy was disarmed, when in Kursk Germany concentrated 780 000 soldiers against 2 000 000 soviets. Even if Germany had 50-80 000 more troops in Kursk, they couldn't won battle of Kursk, but if Germany could have 220-350 000 more troops in Italy, Allies couldn't sipmy throw naval desants in empty undefended areas behind german lines, and push german lines to easy.
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  20.  John Cornell  also don't forget about battle of Stalingrad and soviet massive assault for nearly 1 000 kilometres after that. Don't forget about battle of Moscow and Rjew
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  21.  John Cornell  Western Allies were success only because Germany concentrated most of troops in the East
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  22. 1/7 of the world lives like this now, man. More than a billion people live on less than $ 1 a month, living off their garden or garbage collection. In Russia, in the nineties, the situation was the same as in Germany, and this is not an African country. It's the same in Venezuela.
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  23. In North Korea, the famine began due to the collapse of the USSR, on which the DPRK depended for equipment, the American embargo that deprived Korea of ​​huge export revenues for which it could create its own equipment or establish production, and floods that destroyed a huge number of crops. The UN immediately got involved and demanded that the States soften the measures and help, but the States stood their ground. As a result, the UN collected aid rather late. But Kim Jong-un is to blame for everything, and not the American Congress, which made the DPRK position hopeless and difficult, natural disasters and circumstances
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  24.  TheCrazyKid138l  Italy lost few thousands soldiers in Ephiopia. 200 000 is ephiopian casualities
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  25.    China has a huge sales market in the USA, and the USA also supplies many electronic components to China. The US has nuclear weapons in quantity 6 800 charges for missiles, with active weapons - 2,600. With the fall of the USA, the world currency market will collapse, and Europe will also have to be destroyed. These are the reasons why China does not want to attack the United States, and it will not seek a reason. But they have a 100% plan.
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  26.  @philemon26  yes
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  27. Great war veteran in reality :
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  28.    Poland and Finland invaded Russia in 1919, taking advantage of civil war and chaos, and occupied some russian territories. Finland occupied Karelia and some territoris higher of Petrozavodsk, Poland occupied half of Belarus and 1/3 of Ukraine. Romania occupied Bessarabia. In 1939-40 USSR only returned its own territory. and this again does not justify the Nazis in any way
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  29.  @atrocity2606  what about 50 000 soviet artillery, that bombed Berlin with allied aircraft? And german casualities in this battle- 110 000, not 62 000
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  30.    no, in red army was punish for rape. "2 million raped german women" is Hebbels propaganda. Many Soviet soldiers had wives and families, and they simply could not do this. The Mongols never raped anyone. They had traditional families with wives, and they did not live with their enemies either. The Mongols burned cities and killed the population, and then forced the princes to pay taxes under threat of repetition. And the Mongols themselves went home.
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  31.    я хотел сказать что преступления в красной армии были наказуыемыми, и за изнасилоание тоже было наказание, но я не говорил что этого не было вообще. Это было, но не в таких масштабах - 2 миллиона изнасилованных женщин.
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  32.    и народный коммисариат внутренних дел не имеет никакого отношения к армии. Это полиция. К слову с некоторым произволом в этом органе государство боролось. Везде есть недобросовестные, нечестные, полицейские, которые ради погон готовы хоть расстрелять человека.
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  33.    в немецком плену погибло 2/3 всех пленных советских солдат, и их намеренно убивали. Из 2 400 000 выжило 800 000 В советском плену погибло 400 000 нацистских пленных солдат, из более чем 3 000 000, и намеренно, и тем более просто так, их не казнили, поскольку они были рабочей силой.
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  34.    начиная с лета 1945 насилие к мирному населению было уже наказуемо, до этого - нет, хотя нормальные командиры убивали солдат за такое. Скорее всего, это был акт мести и приравнивания. Нацисты совершили преступлений в 10 раз больше на советской территории, убив намеренно более 7 с половиной миллионов человек. Я не воевал никогда, и надеюсь не буду, и не представляю что будет со мной, если мою семью бы убили, а половину страны с населением бы уничтожили. Как я бы тогда поступил? Человек превращается в животное на войне - это показал Вьетнам.
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  35.    была отправлена в лагеря лишь 1/4 от осужденных пленных красноармейцев - менее 1%, за подтвержденное сотрудничество с нацистами. Что касаемтся немцев, то у них не было еды чтобы обеспечивать пленных, а также немцы их уничтожали перед приходом красной армии, так как не могли их вывезти, и это задокументировано
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  36.    но не прям только идиоты же совершали военные преступления во Вьетнаме?
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  37.    ну, в отличие от других политиков и бюрократов, Сталин отправил на войну своих детей. Это уже о многом говорит. Ни один современный российский депутат, который ворует деньги миллиардами и нелегально владеет каким нибудь заводом, не отправит своих детей, которые живут за границей и не знают русского языка, воевать в какую нибудь Чечню. Впринципе, чтобы президент, депутат, политик или высокопоставленный чиновник отдавал отчет о своих действиях, это редкость. Дети Сталина также учились в обычных школах с другими обычными людьми, а не в каких то элитных. Сталин был редким политиком, который трудился честно на благо страны, и сделал ее великой
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  38.    скоее всего это политическая война. Троцкий имел много власти, и был популярен, и Сталин его убрал чтобы единолично всем править
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  39. 0:30 - most of Americian revolution's army were proffesional mercenaries, that were equipped better than British troops.
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  40. US become the Superpower because of Atlantic and Pacific Ocean - because of them this is impossible to conquer them, and they didn't suffered from WW1 and WW2, after which european superpowers became their shadows. After this US companies and investors simply took markets, that were lost by europeans, and also Europe become political puppet of US after WW2. Also, US in 19th century was a Colonial Empire, that maroudered S.America like europeans Africa or Indochina, thanks to Manro doctrine and isolationism.
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  41.  @johnburns4017  1) Napoleon (56 battles) 2) Wellington (39) 3) Halid (28) 4) Julius Caesar (23) 5) Alexander Mac. (22) 6) Takeda (22) 7) Oda (21) 8) Moris Nassau (21) 9) Cao Cao (20) 10) Montgomery (19)
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  42.  @akgeronimo501  (sorry for my knowledge of english) One guy used Wikipedia, searched with programm "battle", and coppied all battles registered on Wikipedia to Exel, and after this made videos about 500 best generals. In reality, this list have a lot of minuses and problems - it didn't count scale and importance of battle. Different wikipedia pages wroten in different styles, and due to this Exel counted as a victories stupidly battles, where general partificated, but not won, a lot of victories didn't counted. For example, marshal Konev and admiral Yi-Sun-Sin both sucsesed in ~30 operations, but in wikipedia this 30 operations are part of 8 and 6 battles, and Konev, that won 30 battles, have 8 victories and 76th place. Some wikipedia pages didn't exist due to chinese internet isolation. There is no great ottoman generals and ect.
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  43.  @Phantomrasberryblowe  in the description
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  44.  @Phantomrasberryblowe  in chanell "Coterau" you can find video "100 best generals"
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  45.  @aidentherabbit5545  Maginot and Ziegfrield defense lines
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  46. Putin is Russian version of Mussolini
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  47. No, US have special derectove to take Berlin berfore soviets
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  48. 4:55 - why he is smiling in the center of fighting?
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  49.  @rakaipikatan8922  British Empire and Macedonia easily conquerred Afganistan. Russia attempted to do it in 19th century by diplomacy, but UK won that demo version of Cold war.
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