This is called "World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel" from BBC in 2011 and is only part one of two. It's 90 minutes long I think.

Why does RH, put this forward as a "New Release " when I know I've seen it at least 10 times...

@dmeinhertzhagen8764

11 күн бұрын

Almost nothing new ever gets released on KZread especially not new history show. They still release old Digging for Britain episodes and label them as new but Alice Roberts is twenty years younger. lol

Wow, "Stalin" was his "party" name :D

Mass murderer would have been true for Churchill also. His handing of the Bengal famine amounts to genocide by willful neglect. The local brittish rulers pleaded for aid but got nothing, instead India continued exporting rice to the British Isles while it's people starved.

I'm sorry but Hitler helped Britain not Stalin by attacking the Soviet Union. Stalin never trusted the British before the war, during it or after. He was perfectly content sending Germany the resources needed to attack Britain and toasting to Hitler's health. A better video would be how the quick defeat of France helped Stalin win the war. The victory gave the Wehrmacht their confidence and arrogance. Plus to convinced Hitler of his own military strategic genius. Even though France fell more inspite of Hitler than because of him. Also, when Barbarossa began Hitler was content letting his generals make most decisions themselves and Stalin micromanaged the Red Army. By the end of the war the roles had completely reversed.

@mikebacherl2490

6 күн бұрын

Well Said! Very accurate of the actual events that transpired!

@Cornel1001

6 күн бұрын

UK signed an alliance with Moscow in ...1942 ! CCCP ? They were so "afraid" of Germany !

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg

4 күн бұрын

Stalin's disasterous invasion of Finland gave Hitler a lot of confidence

@Smudgeroon74

3 күн бұрын

I still am unable to figure out why 170 divisions of Reds were at Germany's eastern front by April 1941. Operation Barbarossa was a pre-emptive strike by Germany and her 5 allies(Axis) to destroy the threat of Bolshevism forever..

@Cornel1001

3 күн бұрын

@@Smudgeroon74 "training" with live ammunition next to border. Where was Jukov in June 1941 ? In Odessa ? Look on the map, is next to Bucharest not to Berlin. Why Jukov was called at Moscow in the 21 June 1941? He landed in the morning at that day. Stalin has news for him, while he was flying the war just begun.Is just a provocation, so for 24 hours Moscow is not confident, so all soviet books explain the war start on 22. How many people are lost in a day on the border without clear orders ? That is treason by definition ! From my knowledge CCCP made some offers to Berlin, in the first week of war. Who can find them ? Should be somewhere in the archives.

Probably the best British agent after James Bond...

Thank You.

Much obliged.

Very good presentation of the beginning and Stalin's total mental breakdown and rapid recovery. He was also a murderous, vile, scared little bunny when it all comes down. Only scared little bunny's do things like this. They have no self confidence and self worth when all is said and done. You are nothing if this is what you need to make your mark.

@Cornel1001

6 күн бұрын

They should have the first strike ! Everything was in place : soldiers, tanks, planes, even the atack plans. But the strike come from the other side, and was no defense plans, no clear orders for 3 days. The initial orders before 21 June 1941 were ambiguous, like "do not atack germans who cross the border, it might be a provocation " . Incidents were every day and night. 3.5 million soldiers in one side and 5 millions to the other side. Up to 5 th May 1941 Germany and CCCP were Peace loving countries ! O Yes ! Pravda declare Germany as an agressor state who does not represent the real socialism, was a national socialism. That is a crime against humanity hencefore the friendship ended . Pravda was published in many languages in real time ! Berlin included ! So OKW was invited to develop an attack plan. What you can do in 4 weeks ?

@user-gg9hg8go6j

21 сағат бұрын

Вы в своём уме? Пишите бред из своего Воспаленного мозга. Сталин величайшая фигура в мировой истории. Благодаря ему вы не вы не пашете на великую Германию.

@Cornel1001

15 сағат бұрын

@@user-gg9hg8go6j CCCP create nothing and the legacy is just appaling.

I think he expected to be deposed for such a blunder.

YOU WOULDN'T BE BREATHING IF IT WASN'T FOR JOSEPH STALIN....

Sivet history can't be explaned with a psihological profile of Stalin only! There are sovet people also!

You just stole this video off someone' else

Precisely.

Napoleon jumped from Corporal to emperor? Really?

@slavkobegic1418

12 күн бұрын

Exactly.....Napoleon was a trained professional officer. Specilized in artillery...... he concluded the military school in Brienne

@hiighway_chile4080

10 күн бұрын

He was called petite corporal because he would move cannons often a task corporals would do..and he would get his hands dirty so to speak

To know him is to know the strongman Peter the great

This video is good story telling but not very good history, focusing on the wrong historical details for the sake of storytelling at the expense of accuracy. Please therefore permit me to set the record straight. In the first place Hitler did not "almost win" the Soviet war though at first glance it seemed early on as though he might. Russia was much too vast for any invader to adequately supply its armies no matter the extent of initial military superiority. And since falling into German hands in 1941 and 1942 meant almost certain death for anyone but very senior Soviet military officers, from deliberate starvation, disease, or summary execution, the Soviets were going to fight savagely. Soviet lives were obviously going to depend on fighting to the end and the Soviets were not stupid after all despite Hitler's deluded ideas of Slavic racial inferiority. Also despite this video's narrative and a lot of other inaccurate storytelling, since the Soviet Union was so vast, the Germans, except in the early weeks of their Soviet invasion could never wield the initiative everywhere. No, they could only chose which key sectors they could hold the initiative in even by late July 1941. This tactical detail is usually neglected but is a major aspect of World War II in the Soviet Union. Nor were Moscow in 1941, Stalingrad in 1942, nor Kursk in 1943 the dramatic turning points they are often portrayed to be. The tide of war turned only very gradually against Hitler in the Soviet Union. As early as the summer of 1941 the Soviets could launch surprisingly significant counter offensives. And as late as March 1945 the Germans could still launch surprisingly effective local counter offensives too. To be sure Stalin botched things big time after making his pact with Hitler. Crucial but not mentioned here is the fact that Stalin foolishly invaded Finland with winter approaching. He did so with second string troops (the best were keeping an eye on the Japanese in Manchuria). And he sent them into Finland with very little planning. Stalin was eager to force Finland to grant mineral and territorial concessions. Soviet Generals who advised Stalin to wait six months so that his armor and infantry would not be road bound, snow bound, and cut to pieces by fast moving Finnish troops on skis, and for the sake of better training, coordination, and weather, paid for being right with their lives. Why? Very simply, to be right about anything when Stalin was clearly wrong made any subordinate a "potential political rival" in Stalin's paranoid mind, however loyal that subordinate might be. That's why when Stalin in the early days of the German invasion went missing no one was willing to take any major decisions. To do so meant certain death if Stalin found out. Interestingly in a rare moment of candor Stalin confessed much later that when Soviet leaders finally visited him at his dacha he thought they were coming to arrest him. But given how thoroughly Stalin had gained total control there was really no chance that was ever going to happen. Returning for a moment to Stalin's ill-advised invasion of Finland, Stalin thought that to have to plan six months "just to invade tiny Finland" was a show of weakness. But the reality was that his poorly planned actual invasion of Finland was a far worse sign of weakness. In four months the Soviets lost more men killed, wounded, and captured than the Finns had in their entire prewar army, before Finland with spring 1940 approaching, wisely and skillfully sued for peace. The second string troops used at Stalin's command in Finland, were poorly trained, poorly led, and didn't fight very well, thus causing Hitler to conclude that he "had only to kick in the door and the whole rotten [Soviet structure]" would "come crashing down." Arguing with Stalin about anything could lead to certain death at the hands of Stalin's henchmen. But being a poor military commander also cost numerous Soviet Generals their lives too, especially in Finland in 1939 and 1940. And of course in 1941 Stalin's lack of reasonable preparation in case of a German invasion did prove initially disastrous for the Soviets. But it's equally worth noting that when General Walter Warlimont pointed out that Hitler's contemplated invasion of the Soviet Union was logistically dubious he was ordered to not tell this to Hitler. Since the decision had already made to invade the Soviet Union he was told "your job (paraphrasing) is to help plan the operation, not to talk Hitler out of it." Warlimont and several more senior officers than he was were told to keep their logistical concerns to themselves. At first glance Hitler and Stalin were very different. Hitler was much more verbose but much lazier. Hitler in his youth was a loner while Stalin had many friends or if you prefer, partners in crime. Even as a youth Stalin was always getting into trouble. Hitler headed the Nazi movement from almost its beginning while Stalin for a long time was a minor Bolshevik figure. But their similarities were much more important. A perfect storm of events enabled Hitler, an Austrian to rise to rule Germany while Stalin from Soviet Georgia would similarly rise to rule Soviet Russia because German and Russian elites thought they were "bumpkins" who could be managed. Both men were poorly educated. Both men were unprincipled opportunists in the right place at the right time and totally ruthless. And both men were substantially militarily incompetent. Another key similarity was that for Hitler and Stalin it was never about making optimal military decisions but rather about maintaining their unquestioned authority at any cost, even if the results were sometimes militarily harmful to their regimes. In their paranoid minds allowing themselves to be talked out of even some of their most foolish ideas seriously undermined their unquestioned authority. As World War II increasingly turned against Hitler, Hitler thus became increasingly unhinged. But fortunately for Stalin, with the war turning more and more in Stalin's favor, especially once American Lend Lease aid started pouring in, that was not going to be a similar problem for the Soviets. But both Hitler and Stalin had a militarily harmful tendency to advance "yes men" over better commanders in order to preserve their unquestioned authority. In fact given this tendency it's surprising that Hitler and Stalin could draw on Generals as skilled as they in fact were able to draw on. Lastly it is often argued that Hitler was a skilled orator and Stalin was not while Stalin was a better writer than Hitler. But I think that this is misleading. Hitler was not a born orator, but rather very much like President John F. Kennedy decades later, he was coached in this by the best. However Hitler had a tendency to talk too long and many people found his ramblings rather dull since they went on and on. Stalin on the other hand (yes this is subjective, I know) though terse also had charisma which he knew how to turn on and off. So in fact Stalin could also make good speeches but unlike Hitler he was not overly verbose.

@ 17:40... Not his exact words. A little more vulgar, but yeah..

Ten ads in 20 mins so far. It takes away from the hard work and effort that goes into making this documentary

@metalmyke1

11 күн бұрын

what adds?

@bertrandlechat4330

3 күн бұрын

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Stalin was steel man

@michaelram3411

4 күн бұрын

steel???????(:(:(:(:(:(: If it hadn't been for the usa and britain,moscow and st@lingrad would have just been a walk in the park for Germany.Enlighten yourself

@yoannhappe9281

4 күн бұрын

You didn't get the joke, comrade...

@Am-pk3zh

4 күн бұрын

@@yoannhappe9281 why abandon

@Am-pk3zh

4 күн бұрын

you didnt get it jokes!

Say what you want about Stalin, without him in the 30s driving industrialization, and ruthlessly driving production and troups in WWII, WE would have gone under.

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg

4 күн бұрын

Say's the religious cultist

Stalin was a great communist leader ...he protected the USSR from 1925 to 1953....he confronted all western plots, Nazism aggressions...this political historical reality isn't provokes and covers communism failures as states style imitate and individuals lifestyle propaganda...also is not provokes all tyrannical operations committed by Westerners against ( Russian peoples) since 1917 until nowadays

@basilmcdonnell9807

9 күн бұрын

Yes but he killed as many Soviets as Hitler did.

@zack9679

8 күн бұрын

Derp

@michaelram3411

4 күн бұрын

If it hadn't been for the usa and britain,the russian would have been speaking german today

@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg

4 күн бұрын

Surely person of peace

I mean if you really stop and think about it just imagine if they utilize their allies a little better had Japan attack from the East while they attacked from the West majority of their resources came from the East I guess at the end of the day we can think Hitler for being cocky and stupid thank God