Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Why You NEED to Think Critically | Suvorov and Keitel's "Preemptive Strike" 1941 Idea" video.

  1. "..lightly armoured and obsolete..." Soviet tanks statement is largely BS, most Axis tanks were not better, but Germans had radios, which turned it into a fight of able man against a blind and deaf one. And "Germans outnumbered Soviets at the border "is a very careful choice of words XD Yes, it's true, an it at least partly explains how Soviets blew it in 1941 - Soviet forces were separated in echelons, and the second one was too far to help those at the border. You often see this in online team games too - one team ("Germans" have only two players left, the other ("Soviets") have six, and those in numerical superiority then come after those two and all die, because they come one by one, thus their absolute numerical superiority is completely lost, as it's never exploited.
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  2. Actually, "preemptive" nature of German attack is nowhere near the main point of Suvorov. He was trying to persuade his readers, that Russians are not stupid losers, that the harsh measures, even the Great Purge of 1937 actually makes sense, that the catastrophe of 1941 was not a result of stupidity and Soviet inability to fight, but a result of error, a miscalculation. And the fact, that they recovered after such blow and won, sort of proves that.
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  3. First, I believe Rezun's "Suvorov's" "Icebreaker" came out in 1980s. Second, I don't think it matters for "Suvorov's" argumentation if Germans attacked in a preemptive strike or not, neither is Keitel's diary, it just supplements it. Main suspicions of coming Soviet strike against Germany were sparked in Rezun by Soviet propaganda of 1930s, belief in coming world wide revolution and preparations involving pretty much every Soviet citizen (I was trained to shoot at school from age 10, and that was in the peaceful 1980s when Gorbachev was at power) - all pointing to coming major war, and not a defensive one, even Soviet constitution basically stated, that USSR should be expanded until whole planet is "liberated", then there was placement of Soviet forces and insane amounts of armament. Where Rezun is clearly wrong - he overestimated characteristics of Soviet hardware and underestimates German one - especially German anti-tank capabilities in 1941.
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  4. I'm from one of the Baltic countries, which were all invaded in 1940 by their supposed ally against Germany, and I've experienced life in USSR and unarmed people on barricades waiting for Soviet forces in 1991, so don't expect me to be pro-Soviet. XD Sure, they defeated Nazi Germany, that all nice, until they "forgot" to go home afterwards.
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