Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Prokhorovka at Kursk is NOT the Biggest Tank Battle of the WW2 Eastern Front" video.

  1. +Chong Li A bias based on experience. And Isaev is affiliated with, if not strictly subordinated to, the Institute of Military History of Russian MoD, which in Soviet era was a tool of propaganda, not an objective science of history. There is a sad joke... Well, not a joke, really - "Россия, это страна с непредсказуемым прошлым" - "Russia is a country with unpredictable past", common, they often prefer the term "Great Patriotic War" instead of WWII, as it conveniently leaves out 1939-1941 period of WWII - roughly 1/3 of WWII, when USSR and Nazi Germany were sort of friendly. You likely can trust Russian specialists on some specific technical details, like characteristics of weapons, but not the bigger picture, as depending on whether a given person is a "patriot" (in current meaning of the word, a subject to change) or a "liberal", he likely will call actions of Soviet forces reasonable or stupid and a waste of human lives. In any case, expect them to be exaggerated.
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  2. The list of literature on Russian version of Wiki article about this battle have nine books (three if them written by this same author - Isaev) mentioning this subject. At least one of them written (or naming him as author) a man who actually participated, or at least belonged to a unit (he was a political officer - a commissar) that participated in the battle. I wonder, what Germans have written about it? Russian article doesn't name any German book. P.S. German article names two German books, one Russian and one English : David M. Glantz: The Border Battles on the Lutsk-Rovno Axis, 22 June – 1 July 1941, in: ders. (Hrsg.): The Initial Period of War on the Eastern Front, Frank Cass Pbl., London 1993, S. 248–344. ISBN 0-7146-3375-5. So, a sloppy work on your part, turns out this actually isn't the only book English about this battle. XD
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