When I read the title, I thought it was about oil, because I figured, that 65 year before the war was the time, when the Azerbaijani oil industry began to be modernized.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Nope. It's something TIK would say, but not me at least in this case. :)

@WilliamWallace-cl7js

6 жыл бұрын

I'd say there is truth to both. not capturing the caucasus oil fields was a huge problem for the germans in the long run, whereas replenishing the losses from 1941 helped to stop the german advance which in return stopped them from taking the oil fields

@ttbrv5036

6 жыл бұрын

William Wallace88 how would germany be able to advance onto other side of volga even with unlimited oil? What technologic superiority numbers gave them that opportunity? Oil fields were irrelavant on victory. It was poor strategic planning, wrong policy in ukraine and belarus, failed logistics, very weak poorly trained german allied armies.

@fuzzydunlop7928

6 жыл бұрын

MUH CAUCASUS

@fuzzydunlop7928

6 жыл бұрын

MUH BAKU

That moment when Prussian military theories helped the Soviets win the Second World War. The irony. xD

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

topkek hahaha

@marvingiertz846

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah Prussia was the best sad that it does not exist anymore

@airraverstaz

6 жыл бұрын

Marvin Giertz I hope thats sarcasm.

@AndrewVasirov

6 жыл бұрын

Prussia is like that hero who sacrificed everything helping his brothers. His death isn't in vain. Let's not forget this!

@TheDirtysouthfan

6 жыл бұрын

Even worse, when the Soviets arrived at the grave of Blucher, the greatest Prussian general of the Napoleonic era, they dug up his grave and kicked around his skull like a soccer ball. If I remember right, it was in or near Konigsberg (which is now part of Russia). In context of course, the Germans tried to do the same to the Russians.

This is a brilliant bit of history. I've been working for a few years on Wikipedia on the Soviet rifle divisions that were formed after the German invasion, but I did not fully understand the origins of the system of trained reservists until I saw this. Thanks for your work.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

sure. I admit I didn't explain the specifics of the system in the interwar period and the start of WW2 but it was there.

So the Versailles treaty worked, limited the German reserves

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

aye it did

@piligrimm2

5 жыл бұрын

Well all the Europe's industry was at the service of Germany

@AK-sk2jw

5 жыл бұрын

The treaty was intended to restrict Germany's ability to begin a war at all. France even lost in WW2, the treaty was a complete failure for them. Soviet Union was not a signatory.

@AK-sk2jw

5 жыл бұрын

@@piligrimm2 Indeed my people is lucky your people didn't exterminate us.

@SelfProclaimedEmperor

5 жыл бұрын

@Karl Quetzacoatl And who would pay for the devastation Germany caused to France? You think Crimes just go away and no one has to pay for them?

Excellent hypothesis, and it does indeed explain what has amazed often, how the Soviets managed to replace entire fronts so quickly.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Yes It is not new in terms of the overall Russian experience but I introduced the analysis of Crimea to WW2 and was able to put a historical and almost lineal perspective on why the Russian federation is one of the few countries that still has conscription.

@nuttex

6 жыл бұрын

What's even more remarkable is how much manpower was lost by mid-1942 due to occupation - somewhere about 40% of the Soviet population at the time. TIK brought that up in his latest video about Order 227 where the combined forces of Germany and Italy alone outnumbered the number of Soviet troops. Simply, Stalingrad was the do or die moment as there would be little to no hope of making a comeback if it fell.

@benevolentnick1

6 жыл бұрын

they also mobilised on the 20th of may 1941. The Smolensk battle involved these new troops.

@benevolentnick1

6 жыл бұрын

Dont think so nettex. Rzhev meat grinder or Operation Mars had more manpower assigned to it than Operation Uranus (stalingrad) by a factor of 2.5 if my memory serves me correct.

@senpainoticeme9675

6 жыл бұрын

What saved the Soviets or atleast enabled them to replenish losses incurred during the early phases of Barbarossa is that their entire eastern front is peaceful. I do not think the Soviets can replenish their losses fast enough if Japan is active in the far east. Thankfully Zhukov scared the IJA that Japan was unwilling to commit itself to fight the Soviets to help Germany.

Hello, there is something more about crimean war, the Russian empire didn't had enough railways to transport its troops to crimea, this is one of the reasons why after the crimean war, Russia decided to improve its railways and other infraestructures

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

that is also true. They only had one rail line between Moscow and St Petersburg, but I am just highlighting what I thought to be the most important factor. Given they even suffered reserve problems in areas near this railway.

@benwilburn6147

5 жыл бұрын

The Russian/Soviets also used a different rail gauge from the rest of Europe which forced the Germans to switch engines and refit cars. This created delays and provided opportunities for bombers and sabotage. I have no idea what the overall impact was, couldn't have been beneficial to the German Army, though.

@brutal_chud

5 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Lisitza well good thing you have a time machine to tell us all what really happened

@enterchannelnamehere2922

5 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Lisitza If it wasn't for Stalin, USSR would have lost the war.

@brutal_chud

5 жыл бұрын

@Joseph Lisitza Right, I forgot, history belongs to people like you who just make shit up and push claims with no arguments or evidence.

SO much new information. I'm ecstatic. Not stuff like "agincourt battle" or "the mongols" or some other abused topic. Nor boring unknown useless facts like a battle forgotten by history, or some curious but go-nowhere ancient or modern tactic. No man, this stuff is pure gold. Research, reason, causes, consequences, legacy.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you so much! that means a hell of a lot!

You just earned a like for non-biased and non-propaganda laden content. Good on you sir.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you. Be sure to see my other videos.

Title is too much of the click bait. While manpower was important, WW2 and Eastern Front were much more complex than that.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Sure it was but this was arguably the most important factor. More important than resources, army size, ratios, anything. Because without reserves none of that would have been exploited. So no not clickbait. I literally give examples of tons of wars that were so short precisely because of a lack of reserves.

@ReichLife

6 жыл бұрын

Too bad Germany simply lacked production capabilities and resources to actually wage the modern war of attrition. What's good manpower if you cannot properly equip them. The arguably greatest soviet victory in the war, operation Bagration, was done much more thanks to Germans lacking proper amount of vehicles, anti tank weapons etc. rather than actual manpower. And It would be perfectly visible with Red Army, as it was with it predecessor during previous war, if it wasn't for Lend Lease.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Soviet units were properly equipped. They simply lacked trucks though which was a significant contribution because of lend lease. So yes Bagration was in fact a lend lease operation but that doesn't mean that the Soviets didn't turn the tide themselves.

@ReichLife

6 жыл бұрын

Well of course they were, when apart from domestic production, all they lacked they got from the west instead. Calling red army situation without Lend Lease as simply 'they lacked trucks' it's extreme understatement. Sure, USSR stopped Wermacht by themselves, but only thanks to western supplies were they actually able launch so often such big offensives between 1943 and 1945. Bagration could happen in 1944 only thanks to Lend Lease existance. Sure, they made tanks, cannons or rifles for themselves, what about canned meat for soldiers to eat? A 'mere' 80% came from Lend Lease. Other examples? Aviation fuel? over 60 % Cars and trucks? 74 % Tires? 50 % Radio equiptment? 88%!!! Copper and Aluminium? Over 50% Rail engines? Nearly 90% Sorry, fact is that style of war which USSR managed to waged in last years, was only possible thanks to Lend Lease.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

It is an extreme understatement because yes they provided a lot more in logistics and support. But most of what they provided helped in the offensive rather than defense. It did contribute to the sustainability of the consumer economy but I must utter again: peak deliverables were in late 1943 AFTER the wars strategic initiative shifted. The Red army would have likely reached a peace with Germany, but it wasn't a push over anymore. You are reciting statistics that I literally have in my video on lend lease. Aviation fuel was actually 58%. I am not arguing that the style of war that the Soviets waged in the last years was possible without lend lease. Why are you creating ghost arguments?

By far the title has one of the most remarkable historical affirmation I ever saw on KZread since the last months. Keep going, sir :)

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you!

Very good. I think when people think about the Soviet Union's victory they mainly think about manpower and the winter, but this offers a different perspective and is well thought out.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :D

@benkenobi3703

Жыл бұрын

Who say you that, you can name them as low iq person

Good video. You make your claims and back it up well. Lovely image at the end with Zhukov, Monty and Rokossovsky.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you. I'm hoping to make a new video quite soon.

Good stuff. People also forget ussr was born in civil war. There were tons (14 million) of battle experienced reserves. Also they had the industri and aid to arm and supply said numbers.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

That may be so :)

@EstParum

6 жыл бұрын

Blitz Of The Reich people have a tendency to think the red army were a peasant army. Fact is most ncos etc had experience from ww1 and the civil war. Their competence spread quickly through the ranks 1942 onwards. They used some very unorrhodox and on-the-fly tactics on all fronts.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

I still do think the red army was incompetent in 1941 but they quickly learned.

@maxter3326

6 жыл бұрын

The truth is that industrialization was mainly done by Stalin and not by old Russia, in reality Soviet Union won that war really thanks to Stalin, if it was someone else they would give in pretty fast, there is reason Russians called him Stalin or man of steel, Stalin was not his real last name, it was a nickname. And to say that ww1 experience matter there is wrong, Stalins purges on military in 30s got rid of all that useless experience. We all know how WW1 experience played out on French and Brits.

@maxter3326

6 жыл бұрын

Don't confuse Polish calvary charge of WW2 with Soviets, and btw it was German propoganda to redecule Poles, but their calvary were armed with anti tank rifles, that actually was most effective battle Poles vs Germans in ww2 for Poles.

Excellent video man! It's a myth that winter killed off the Wehrmacht. It's Soviet reserves! Germans highly underestimated them, which in turn was a terrific defeat for German Intelligence Services

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

yep a huge myth. Winter affected both sides. Acting like the Soviets were these super humans that could resist sub zero temperatures.

@nguyenthang5421

6 жыл бұрын

I think they caculated USSR reserves army, they just did not expect the Red army could deploy their divisions that quick. Especially after the great purge, Red army was considered as week, obsolete and unorganized. "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." - Adolf Hitler

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Well the great purge really affected the officer structure of the system but not necessarily the reserve system in its entirety. The Germans really just determined forward units without considering force regeneration.

@seanlivesley5424

6 жыл бұрын

Yep it can even be seen at kursk how the germans underestimated the soviet reserves and therefore did not anticipate operation Kutuzov and the attack of the Voronezh front in the south.

@MartinDRand

6 жыл бұрын

Harold Harrison --- The Germans had plenty of accurate intelligence and factual assumptions, but the megalomaniac in charge refused to accept anything that made the Russians seem potent. He originally thought they'd be defeated within 6 weeks.

Found this channel in my recommendations, great videos so far man, keep it up! :)

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great video. Thank you👍

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching ! :)

Germans should have tried conscripting some oil

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Is oil an instrument?

Interesting video. I really enjoyed it.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you!

Interesting video. Hitler was very aware of this situation and the main goal of the Operation Barbarossa was to blunt the main Soviet strategic advantage: the ability to conscript enough forces, and thus, blunt the German technological and tactical superiority. The race for gaining this main strategic advantage over the USSR fail in the gates of Moscow and that's the reason why I think the Battle of Moscow is the most important battle of the war; far more important than the Battle of Stalingrad. In the time of the Battle of Stalingrad it was too late for the Wehrmacht to knock out the USSR out of the war.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Another person agrees. Moscow is the most important!

@johnnyscifi

6 жыл бұрын

st s Very valid point(s)

@oikmijnloly6033

6 жыл бұрын

st s Do you really think the soviets wouldn't fight to the end like the germans did? They aren't french they don't surrender that easy as them.

@stef1896

6 жыл бұрын

@Oik Mijn Loly French didn't surrender neither, they were defeated. When Germans reach Paris France already lost the bulk of the army and didn't have reserve nor time to mobilise. Because the total defeat was inevitable many in French command concluded that further resistance would cause redundant human and material damage. Nevertheless, you obviously didn't understand my comment.

@ASpectrethatishauntingEurope

6 жыл бұрын

Moscow would have turned into Stalingrad 2.0 except this time the Soviets have an even easier time. In our timeline, the german soldiers were totally exhausted and couldn't physically reach the city of moscow itself, and even if they did, the Soviets would encircle them and crush them even faster than Paulus' 6th Army. And even if they did somehow get into Moscow, there's no reason the soviets would surrender. The people would fight toot and nail for their survival.

Great video. I gained a new perception I had not had before. TY for sharing.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

I have a small criticism which is not really about the facts but the title. Nazi-Germany lost WW2 because it was Nazi Germany. Lead by a man who wanted to fight a two front war and was unable to understand the lessons men like Napoleon had established ( forcing a decisive battle in Russia is difficult and invading Britain is hard ). Underdogs can win wars if they fight them right. It is plausible that a Nazi Germany backed by the allies could have even defeated Soviet Russia in a slightly different WW2 where Poland isn’t guaranteed and Hitler doesn’t invade the Soviet Union for some reason, leading to a point in time where Soviet Russia under Stalin attacks or is at the very least, seen as a bigger threat than Nazi-Germany. Basically, when acknowledging determinism, we have to understand that to change even the smallest event, one effectively needs an entirely new universe because every event impacts other events in a chain reaction beyond human imagination. The Nazis were always going to invade most of Europe successfully and then be beaten back in our timeline because all of history of our cosmos leading up to this moment has made any other outcome an absolute impossibility. The details of the war were not decided 65 years before the events but the very instance our known time begins. Possibly, even long, very, very long before that if we go with one of the theories about a universe having existed before this point and then being basically "reborn". Everything we will ever do, experience or think in our lifetime has been determined for an long amount of time. So if we do this really hardcore; *the outcomes of WW2 were decided 13.8 billion years ago* .

its easy to forget that all those numbers stated each one was a real soldier.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

yes and a unique perspective on life. war is cruel.

@oikmijnloly6033

6 жыл бұрын

Meat Bag The death of 1 man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. -Joseph Stalin (sounds like he is defending the 15 million men he purged)

@ahoosifoou4211

6 жыл бұрын

human = meat bag

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

I got this impression when I read When Titans Clashed.

Very informative content, thank you

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks!

Great Video and History & Lesson! Well done.

@BlitzOfTheReich

4 жыл бұрын

thank you! be sure to check out the channel's other videos.

Glad to see the channel is getting attention!

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks! It means a lot. I take my time making these videos so happy a lot of people at least get to see them.

@salokin3087

6 жыл бұрын

Honestly, you earned it!

3:46 Lv. 1 crook, Lv. 10 hitman, Lv. 50 boss

interesting video! i really like the use of quotations from historical sources. makes a professional impression on the video

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I always include evidence in my videos.

Really interesting topic and well researched video. Seems to have gotten a good amount of views too

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks for always being there!

good take on the matter

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks!

You should make a long video about the crimea war

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

I am actually going to start a series on why wars in the 19th century were so short. I obviously answered it in this video, but It will be in a shorter 2-3 minute style format. I would still love to do the Crimean War, however I have been on the 19th century for quite a while. I need to either finally finish my Russian Civil War series or may do something on Kievan Rus.

@anarquia201

6 жыл бұрын

Blitz Of The Reich that sounds awesome! Keep up the great work i want to leard More about the kiev rus after playing the stanindless steel in Medieval 2

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks. I really appreciate it. To break the 19th century streak I may do it.

Great vid! Subbed to your channel after 3 mins

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks!

Concise. Good job and very informative.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

thank you very much! be sure to watch my other documentaries.

Such an informative video :)

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@misterbeach8826

6 жыл бұрын

and naive. well, he lacks knowledge of military history and tactics. i am glad that he didn't explain ww2 with the middle ages. if you are really interested into ww2 and soviet union, i strongly suggest that you watch at least some lectures on that matter here on youtube. operation barbarossa and the following years until 1945 are more interesting one might think and there exist many false myths about it

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

how exactly do I lack knowledge in military history and tactics? I think it's naive to assume all the causes and policies implemented for ww2 were exclusively caused by a bubble period around the periphery of the war. to assume that you can analyze the largest war in history through a one dimensional prism is the most naive. Because of this I find military history sometimes lacking because it ignores the societal and especially economic directions countries take which inevitably leads to certain trajectories. In addition many of the arguments I take here are at least partially influenced by historians of the second world war.

@crqf2010ruler

6 жыл бұрын

Blitz Of The Reich this is what's wrong, you base yourself on historians while historians aren't factual 100% of the time. Herodotus was a Historian, is he a reliable source however? But you can't just understand the incorrect info, you purposely fulfill your own Germanophobic Agenda. That's the difference between channels like Military History and you.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

That's why you 'cross reference'. And please, most military history channels literally analyze history in such a dry way, without considering anything but the numbers on battlefields.

Interesting thought.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Creativity works hehe.

@tommyscaletta

6 жыл бұрын

Blitz Of The Reich The more I think about this the more sense it makes to me. Although it probably didn't win the war single-handedly.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Of course this didn't solely predetermine the war, but it contributed a lot. It's mainly to change the idea of how we see armies in warfare.

Great video , very interesting.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you very much! be sure to watch the rest.

Can't believe that channel is only at 15k subs. Truly a goldmine!

@BlitzOfTheReich

9 ай бұрын

thanks! I took a break because of this because it was too much work, but I will make videos again one day.

@jamesstramer5186

9 ай бұрын

@@BlitzOfTheReich Absolutely!

Artillery only!

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Okay Isorrow

First you have to know the history of Russia at least since Peter the Great's reforms, the Decembrist ideals; the narodniki thought; the Russian peasant mindset, the marxist takeover, the 1917 events, then the bolshevik coup, the civil war in all Russia, etc. The "Soviets" as you call them have been just a stage on (Moscovite) Russian history.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Yep I'd have to agree. Too many people don't know the lineage. Imo it's so much more consequential than Western stories which is why a determinism can't be used as much, although I don't like using it much either.

@fus132

6 жыл бұрын

The Decembrist and Narodniki there the high class nobles, dreaming of socialist utopia with free peasants, just like we have deluded middle class students today. Their cause failed because peasants would just report them to authorities for speaking nonsense. And whose with the same socialist mindset, who stayed after the revolution, got shot, or committed suicide most of the time. It wasn't a stage, it was a push off a cliff.

Good job dude, you just earned another subscriber.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Grazie buongiorno

Very good presentation. Thank you

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

Thats a very good "imprussian" you gave us about the military

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

finally, at least one pun!

@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014

5 жыл бұрын

@@BlitzOfTheReich Haha, im a fan of your videos man, especially Russia that is not sot much mentionned, keep the good work

The lines from the past age to present age to the future. Decisions, acts and hazards of lot of men are built our world.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

poetry to my ears

thank you ! suscribed !

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Didier deNice thanks for watching

A great insight. Thank you.

@BlitzOfTheReich

4 жыл бұрын

no problem!

3:30 that guy looks like sad Hitler at a costume party

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

sad Moltke

I can see the main point of this video. It's not the number of front line troops in service alone, it's also the number of reserve troops in the country as well. Since Russia is a big country and adopted the reserve system from the Prussians, they could put a few hundred divisions (hundreds of thousands of troops if not millions) as reserves and use these large reserves against any invaders. I watched only 8 mins of this video and got the main point of this video. Maybe you may need to know the figures of the Russian Army in WW2 to understand further though

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

yes that is generally the main point. That the Soviets NEEDED to implement reserves because their country was too big and had such a low population density. people always think the Germans were overstretched but never think the opposite way.

@chooyongming110

6 жыл бұрын

Blitz Of The Reich I'll say both of them. The Germans were stretched from Leningrad to about 20km from Moscow to Kharkov. It was German unpreparedness for the winter that gave time to call up new divisions plus the 30-40 siberian divisions with about 1000 tanks and 1000 aircraft that slowly helped push Germans back so slowly the numbered favoured Russia and started to push the Germans back and back

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it is true the Germans were unprepared, but people focus on that too much.

Very nicely done!

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

thank you. Be sure to watch my other videos!

Awesome, just subbed

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks!

A thoughtful piece, though it's always hard to pinpoint just one factor. The lack of German long range heavy bombers, the lack of planning for winter clothing, or even the lack of appreciation that equipping German trains with dual sets of wheels so they could more easily adjust to the narrower Russian gauge also likely contributed. Now, add the Russian tactical decision to ignore casualties and only feed enough forces into the front lines to slow them or keep them stable while the Germans bled themselves trying to supply troops 2000kms away from Germany while Russia built up a force safely out of reach of any German attack, and you have the worst of both worlds for German armies.

@emsnewssupkis6453

5 жыл бұрын

For some bizarre reason, eveyrone invading Russia ignores the issue of what happens when winter hits. Same in the northern USA, winters are brutal.

@TheLunacyofOurTimes

5 жыл бұрын

@@emsnewssupkis6453 I don't want to quibble about it much, but I live in Edmonton. Climate does matter when you're trying to supply huge numbers of troops and mechanized forces.

Support Blitz of the Reich. Check out our online store! Get $3 off at teespring by typing in promo code: spicyblitz teespring.com/stores/blitzs-obshchina Thank you all for watching this video. *Edit 'nearly 400k views!' If you would like to support the vitality of this channel please consider supporting me through patreon and paypal; also check out my book recommendations via Amazon. Thanks! www.patreon.com/blitzofthereich www.paypal.me/blitzofthereich www.amazon.com/shop/blitzofthereich I would also like to add that Russia has a very low population density + very large land size which thus make reserves and conscription much more important to it than to other countries. 6:57 made a mistake on the recruitment needs. Meant about 400k to meet parity not 300k for Pangealand. Sorry! :o Also I underestimated the 1st and 2nd Prussian armies. I accidentally excluded the 1st cavalry division so it seems it had a strength closer to 92k. With the 2nd army I excluded the 6th cavalry division so it's closer to 220k. Not huge differences. Apart from that the 3rd army is correct. The army of Alsace also seems generally correct but I am not 100% whether I added an extra 10k to the Army of the Rhine since the order of battle is hard to read for my eyes. Long story short this could mean I underestimated the amount the Germans outnumbered the French by about 10k which really isn't that much. Anyway It does not damage my conclusions. In 8:47, I believe a few of the ratios are slightly off (I might have mixed sources), however these are not major and few in between.

@mememaster147

6 жыл бұрын

FYI 'albeit' is pronounced 'all be it' (not 'all bite') because that's the phrase it's compounded from.

@spudgunn8695

6 жыл бұрын

What about the fact that according to the title of this video, the Soviets appear to have had the second world war won 38 years before they even existed!

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

yes you are right. I am just used to pronouncing it like albite and quite a lot of people make the same mistake.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

did you not see the video?

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

I aint that short.

I very much like your attention to detail, especially in regards to pronunciation. Overall, a much better presentation than most of the so-called professional, mainstream tv productions.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

that means so much. thank you!

Awaiting for next episode

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

I will try to make it sooner.

"Quantity has a quality all its own" Napolean or Stalin.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

bingo

@C0wb0yBebop

5 жыл бұрын

derin den Stalin

LOL Loris-Melikov vs. Ivan IV

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Who do you think would win? A crazy vagabond or a pompous aristocrat?

@kolya9876543434343

6 жыл бұрын

Blitz Of The Reich I am for the aristocrat by all means! Man, just look at his beard! It's way better than Ivan's

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Well at least you don't have to live with getting beat up by Ivan's walking cane lmao.

Very thoughtful. And thought provoking. And high marks foor the polish & flow of this video. I'm greatful for TIK's recommendation of your channel. (The name would have diverted me, otherwise.) Thanks. DOUGout

Amazing content!!!

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Is that Rokossowski in your avatar?

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

BandytaCzasu yes it is

@Desh282

6 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha how ironic, name your channel as a German war tactic and use the guy who fought against them as a avatar!!!

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't consider it a German war tactic. 'Blitz of the Reich'= 'Destruction of the Reich' = 'Destruction of Nazi Germany'

@crqf2010ruler

6 жыл бұрын

Blitz Of The Reich Oh Snap, this is going into my cringe compilation Inb4 ** makes a video about huurrrr wehraboos ** just shows Germanophobia and Japanophobia.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not a Germaphobe, which is why I talked so much about Prussia here.

The best thing to come out of the crimean war was definitely the bela clava!!

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

a fashionista

You're very perceptive and extremely analytical, well done!

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great Video

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you!

6.57 You have intresting math there buddy. 200+300k = 500k 100+500k= 600k , how is that equal numbers :)

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

crap you're right. I made a mistake. Thank you for pointing it out.

I have to disagree with the title "Why the Soviets won WW2, 65 years before It even started" because it is solely based on reservists and conscription instead of taking the biggest factor behind the German defeat which was the U.S. financing the whole allied war offense. Your theory of conscription is plausible but not the sole reason that the soviets won WWII as you have it titled ("Why the Soviets won WW2, 65 years before It even started"). Historians state that the main reason that the Germans were stopped at Moscow was mainly because the U.S. was fueling Russia with military funds & material along with food and other supplies. The German soldiers initially invading Russia and Moscow did not have the adequate winter clothing and military equipment, while the new batch of Russian soldiers that came to defend Moscow had brand new boots, coats, clothing, food, military equipment and were much better fed. These new soldiers were much better than the soldiers on the German front, a lot of those didn't even have proper guns and weapons. You have to keep in mind that Russia had just come out of a civil war and the country was poor and not unified even after the 5 year plan and Stalin purging most of the military and also the gulags. Having a lot of military men is not enough to win a war, and if you think so then you should read up on history. Just to give you a small fact is the retreat at Dunkirk, almost 1/2 a million French and British soldiers were surrounded by the Germans and were allowed by the Germans to be rescued by private British boats. Hitler personally told his generals to stop their forward march towards Dunkirk. This shows you that man power is not enough to win any battle. A main theory in Hitler's decision was that he didn't want the U.S. to enter the war. Hitler then declared war on the U.S. which went against his own rule and protocol of never officially declaring war on a country, just attack and invade them first. The main reason he declared war against the U.S. was that the U.S. was economically & militarily supporting The UK and had just started helping Russia. Russia would have capitulated if it wasn't for the U.S. support, especially with the lend-lease. Hitler knew and planned to have Russia surrender before the winter but he didn't count on the U.S. financially backing up Russia through Lend-Lease. A better theory for Germany's defeat was that Hitler never had a plan B due to his thinking of Germany being the superior race. The German soldiers initially invading Russia and Moscow did not have the adequate winter clothing and military equipment. My point is that Germany was fighting a proxy war with the U.S. on many fronts and that was the real cause for Germany's demise.... not because Russia had more reservists... 1 more thing about lend-lease to Russia... In today's money, the U.S. supplied hundreds of billions in dollars to Russia that Russia has never paid back, as a matter of fact when the USSR capitulated in 1989 Gorbachev asked President Bush if Russia could retroactively get help through the Marshall Plan from 1948 that was given to other countries by the U.S. that were affected and attacked by Germany because technically Russia lost the cold war against the U.S.. Bush laughed and said you guys still haven't paid us back the lend-lease funds.

@jmehn203

5 жыл бұрын

@Von Staufenberg , 1st of all $11 billion dollars in 1941 would be worth hundreds of billions in today's dollar value.. The U.S. started helping Russia as soon as the Germans invaded Russia and one of the reasons that Germany couldn't take over Moscow was due to the fact that the U.S. was supplying Russia with food, oil and military equipment which Russia didn't have at the beginning...to give you an example of what the U.S. was doing to help Russia, a strategic air offensive by the United States Army Air Force and Royal Air Force played a significant part in reducing German industry and tying up German air force and air defense resources, with some bombings, such as the bombing of the eastern German city of Dresden, being done to facilitate specific Soviet operational goals. In addition to Germany, hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on their eastern allies of Romania and Hungary, primarily in an attempt to cripple Romanian oil production. British and Commonwealth forces also contributed directly to the fighting on the Eastern Front through their service in the Arctic convoys and training Red Air Force pilots, as well as in the provision of early material and intelligence support. The later massive material support of the Lend-Lease agreement by the United States and Canada played a significant part particularly in the logistics of the war. Among other goods, Lend-Lease supplied: 58% of the USSR's high octane aviation fuel 33% of their motor vehicles 53% of expended ordnance (artillery shells, mines, assorted explosives) 30% of military aircraft 93% of railway equipment (locomotives, freight cars, wide gauge rails, etc.) 50-80% of rolled steel, cable, lead, and aluminum 43% of garage facilities (building materials & blueprints) 12% of tanks and SPGs 50% of TNT (1942 onward) In total, the U.S. deliveries through Lend-Lease amounted to $11 billion in materials(valued at hundreds of billions in todays dollars): over 400,000 jeeps and trucks; 12,000 armored vehicles (including 7,000 tanks, about 1,386 of which were M3 Lees and 4,102 M4 Shermans); 11,400 aircraft (4,719 of which were Bell P-39 Airacobras) and 1.75 million tons of food. Roughly 17.5 million tons of military equipment, vehicles, industrial supplies, and food were shipped from the Western Hemisphere to the USSR, 94% coming from the US. For comparison, a total of 22 million tons landed in Europe to supply American forces from January 1942 to May 1945. It has been estimated that American deliveries to the USSR through the Persian Corridor alone were sufficient, by US Army standards, to maintain sixty combat divisions in the line. The United States delivered to the Soviet Union from October 1, 1941 to May 31, 1945 the following: 427,284 trucks, 13,303 combat vehicles, 35,170 motorcycles, 2,328 ordnance service vehicles, 2,670,371 tons of petroleum products (gasoline and oil) or 57.8 percent of the High-octane aviation fuel, 4,478,116 tons of foodstuffs (canned meats, sugar, flour, salt, etc.), 1,911 steam locomotives, 66 Diesel locomotives, 9,920 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 120 tank cars, and 35 heavy machinery cars. Provided ordnance goods (ammunition, artillery shells, mines, assorted explosives) amounted to 53 percent of total domestic production. Also, Between June 1941 and May 1945, Britain delivered to the USSR: 3,000+ Hurricanes 4,000+ other aircraft 27 naval vessels 5,218 tanks (including 1,380 Valentines from Canada) 5,000+ anti-tank guns 4,020 ambulances and trucks 323 machinery trucks (mobile vehicle workshops equipped with generators and all the welding and power tools required to perform heavy servicing) 1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada) 1,721 motorcycles £1.15bn worth of aircraft engines 1,474 radar sets 4,338 radio sets 600 naval radar and sonar sets Hundreds of naval guns 15 million pairs of boots... In other words The U.S. and the UK supplied Russia enough material, food, oil, military equipment to sustain any country through war... Also, besides the U.S. supplying Russia with logistics, the U.S. was also battling the other 70% of Germany's military... Germany's total army fighting Russia only counted for 30% of Germany's military. Germany's invasion of Russia during Operation Barbarossa only consisted of 4 million German soldiers... In conclusion, If the U.S. wouldn't have gotten involved in WWII and wouldn't have helped Russia with lend lease and other tactics, Russia would have capitulated at Moscow at the end of 1941 right before he winter. To win a war you need more than just large number of soldiers, you also need enough food, oil, military equipment, all these fall under the category of logistics... The only thing that was in Russia's favor was that they had a lot of people for the military and Germany didn't have enough because they were fighting like 3 other wars with 4 other countries. Also, the U.S. was fighting Germany, Italy and Japan at the same time... Russia was only fighting with Germany and it took Russia almost 4 years to expel Germany from Russia, from 1941 to 1945 when Russia entered Berlin in April 1945... The U.S. invaded Europe though Normandy in June 1944 and in a few months they were already in Germany and in Berlin in May of 1945.. Also, Russia had the luxury that no country was attacking its manufacturing plants that were found on the east where all of Russia's military equipment was being manufactured.... on the contrary, Germany's industrial and manufacturing plants were being bombed and destroyed by the U.S. and the allies... So yes, Russia succeeded only because the U.S. helped them economically, logistically and by diminishing Germany's military and production capabilities.. When Germany was invading Russia they had to stop because they didn't have enough fuel, food and adequate clothing and boots. So clearly, Russia would have collapsed if it didn't have help from the allied powers especially the U.S....

@jmehn203

5 жыл бұрын

@Von Staufenberg , 1 more thing, your following comment was not accurate at all, you said; "WW2 set the Soviet Union back about 20 years whereas the US escaped relatively unscathed." This is not accurate because the U.S. was fighting with at least 3 different countries at the same time while Russia was only fighting with Germany... The U.S. was fighting Germany, Japan and Italy plus other proxy wars... so the U.S. was not unscathed like you said... The result was that the U.S. made Russia into a superpower which Russia was nothing before WWIII.. as a matter of fact, Russia was defeated by japan and even Germany before WWII.. After WWII, Russia became a wealthier and powerful country because the U.S. gave them a green light to invade countries in eastern Europe, like Poland....The U.S. created a monster with Russia and it took a cold war of almost 40 years for the U.S. to suppress Russia and by 1989 Russia had become a third world country...

@jmehn203

5 жыл бұрын

Von Staufenberg , 1st of all you ignored and dismissed all the important points ,which I mentioned, that lead to Germany’s demise and Russia taking 4 years to fight off Germany... Also, Germany was fighting a proxy war with the U.S. through Russia and the Uk because most of the war against Germany was funded by The U.S... Also, there’s no evidence that the U.S. was going to team up with Germany to fight Russia.... now you’re just fabricating history.... The facts are that the UK , U.S. and Russia met up many times, especially at the Yalta conference, and planned how they were going to split the different countries... Russia was very sneaky in their strategies because they didn’t trust the west and Stalin acted like a humble nice guy... as a matter of fact Churchill liked him so much and trusted him that he nicknamed Stalin Uncle Joe because Stalin reminded Churchill of a nice harmless Uncle... Stalin played into this harmless persona when in reality he was a ruthless dictator... In the end Stalin got China, Manchuria, east Germany, North Korea, Poland and most of Eastern Europe as satellite countries to Russia... The U.S. had no plans to invade Russia with Germany as the U.S. didn’t even have an open channel with Germany... The U.S. lost less people because it was more strategically prepared than Russia was... Russia was not militarily prepared when Germany invaded... The only reason that the U.S. wasn’t invaded by Germany was that the U.S. was geographically too far from Germany for them to attack the U.S.... Look at what Germany did in Leningrad, they surrounded the city and starved most of the people to death for more than 39 days, while Russia stood by and did nothing... Russia didn’t care about It’s people, just years before the war Stalin killed a lot of his generals and soldiers besides killing more than a million Russians in the gulags.... The U.S. isolated Russia so much during the Cold War that when Russia collapsed in 1989 , Gorbachev asked President Bush if Russia could retroactively get help through the Marshall Plan that was given by the U.S. to all allies affected by the war with Germany , Russia rejected it in 1945 but was begging for it in 1989.... Bush just said sorry buddy,but no... So when the wall fell in Germany and West Germany wanted to unite its East Germany Russia sold east Germany to west Germany for billions of dollars....that’s how poor Russia got due to the Cold War.... Russia is an old evil empire that it brought its demise unto itself.... After WWII Russia decided to go against the U.S. and it showed it’s true colors by invading neighboring countries... Like I said before, just think about an alternate war like this: What would have been the outcome if the U.S. would have partnered up with Germany in the beginning to fight against Russia... The answer is that the U. S. and Germany would have destroyed Russia

@jmehn203

5 жыл бұрын

@Von Staufenberg , Operation unthinkable and sunrise were "What if" military back up plans... Operation unthinkable was drafted up by Winston Churchill which he was not really in charge, The U.S. was in charge and Eisenhower was the Supreme allied commander... Operation Unthinkable was drafted up just in case the Russians didn't keep their commitment to the Yalta Agreement regarding Poland.. "The will" was qualified as "square deal for Poland" (Which probably meant enforcing the recently signed Yalta Agreement). Poland was a vague stipulation because the Soviet Union stipulated it would keep the territory of eastern Poland they had already annexed in 1939, and Poland was to be compensated for that by extending its western borders at the expense of Germany. Contrasting with his prior statement, Stalin promised free elections in Poland despite the Soviet sponsored provisional government recently installed by him in Polish territories occupied by the Red Army. So operation Unthinkable was not an operation to invade Russia as you said, it was meant to keep the pact that the allies had with Russia regarding the split up in concessions from Eastern European occupied countries, especially Poland. Also, this was not something approved by the U.S., this was just something that Churchill cooked up but it was eventually rejected by the Americans because they still wanted Russia to help against the Japanese in Manchuria.. The U.S. didn't really need Russia to defeat Japan but they wanted to avoid more U.S. soldiers dying. But in the end, Russia was the one that really lied because they said that they wanted to liberate countries like china, Korea and Poland but in reality they made satellite states out of them, especially china and North Korea. Manchuria should have gone to the U.S. because it was under Japanese control but the U.S. believed Russia was going to let the Manchurians govern themselves, which was false, Manchuria was swallowed up by chine with Russia's guidance and backing. Operation sunrise was General Wolfe's surrender to the U.S. in Italy, it wasn't a surrender from all of German forces, he didn't have that power only Hitler did, and Hitler did not want any communications with Russia or the allied powers. n 1945, Wolff under Operation Sunrise took over command and management of intermediaries including Swiss-national Max Waibel , in order to make contact in Switzerland with the headquarters of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, under Allen W. Dulles as to surrendering the German forces in and around Italy. After initially meeting with Dulles in Lucerne on 8 March 1945, Wolff negotiated the surrender of German forces in Italy, ending the war in Italy on 29 April, before the official war ended in Germany on 2 May 1945... I see that you are the one that modifies history to fuel your argument about how The U.S. was the bad guy, and Russia the savior... The truth is the U.S. did not have any intentions to invade or take over Russia, that would have needed approval by the U.S. Congress as they are the only ones in the U.S. that can declare war on a foreign country, The President of the U.S. does not have that power, you as an American should know hat especially since you said that you worked for national intelligence, which in reality you sound more like a soviet operative... If the U.S. wanted to invade Russia it did have the manpower, strategic alliance, firepower and the Atomic Bomb to do it.. But it was not interested in that at all... Like I said before, what has always benefitted the U.S. strategically was its geography... The U.S. could outpace any country in military production while having the advantage that no one would or could attack it's manufacturing plants, at the same time it has military alliances with many other countries mainly in Europe... Besides this, no other country in 1945 could compete with the Navy of the U.S. .. If the U.S. would have gone to war with Russia in 1945 it could have mobilized troops from the UK, Canada, Australia, France, Italy and Germany and then invade Russia..... The U.S. would first attack all of Russia's production plants in the east and all of its oil facilities and in a matter of months Russia's armament would be bogged down due to not having a logistical advantage, such as enough fuel for its trucks, planes and tanks... and its soldiers would begin dying because food supplies would be cut off and in less than a year the U.S. would have at least a dozen ready to go atomic bombs, which Moscow would be number 1 target, followed by bombing all of Russia's production plants which at that point Russia would have been begging to stop... That's what would have happened, which is backed up by many historians and military experts. The end result would have been catastrophic for Russia and that's not the U.S.'s goal. Now this following statement is my opinion... It seems that people like you have a tunnel vision and really believe the hype that countries like Russia have fed their people for hundreds of years, they are fed hyperbole and fairy tales about how strong Russia is and how invincible they are, it's similar to what Germany fed it's people about their world superiority. The truth is the U.S. was in a position in WWII to pretty much destroy any country but at what cost and for what purpose were the real obstacles... The U.S. is a capitalist democracy republic that it's main objective is capitalism and money... It has never been based on world dominance or suppression as Germany or even Russia has been.... If you look at right before WWII Russia and Germany made a pact to carve up eastern Europe under their rule, they invaded Poland and Finland... This is who they are... The U.S. does go to war with other countries but not to annex them, but rather to position them to a non-threatening position against the U.S..... which is not the same as invading a country and annexing them under your won, like what Russia did with Poland and the neighboring eastern European countries.

@jmehn203

5 жыл бұрын

@Von Staufenberg , American deliveries through Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union can be divided into the following phases: --"pre Lend-lease" 22 June 1941 to 30 September 1941 (paid for in gold and other minerals) --first protocol period from 1 October 1941 to 30 June 1942 (signed 7 October 1941), these supplies were to be manufactured and delivered by the UK with US credit financing. --second protocol period from 1 July 1942 to 30 June 1943 (signed 6 October 1942) --third protocol period from 1 July 1943 to 30 June 1944 (signed 19 October 1943) --fourth protocol period from 1 July 1944, (signed 17 April 1945), formally ended 12 May 1945 but deliveries continued for the duration of the war with Japan (which the Soviet Union entered on the 8 August 1945) under the "Milepost" agreement until 2 September 1945 when Japan capitulated. On 20 September 1945 all Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union was terminated. In June 1941, within weeks of the German invasion of the USSR (Operation Barbarossa), the first British aid convoy set off along the dangerous Arctic sea route to Murmansk, arriving in September. It carried 40 Hawker Hurricanes along with 550 mechanics and pilots of No. 151 Wing to provide immediate air defense of the port and to train Soviet pilots. By the end of 1941, early shipments of Matilda, Valentine and Tetrarch tanks represented only 6.5% of total Soviet tank production but over 25% of medium and heavy tanks produced for the Red Army.The British tanks first saw action with the 138 Independent Tank Battalion in the Volga Reservoir on 20 November 1941. Lend-Lease tanks constituted 30 to 40 percent of heavy and medium tank strength before Moscow at the beginning of December 1941. Much of the aid can be better understood when considering the economic distortions caused by the war. Most belligerent powers decreased severely production of non-essentials, concentrating on producing weapons. This inevitably produced shortages of related products needed by the military or as part of the military-industrial complex. For example, the USSR was very dependent on rail transportation, but the war practically ended rail equipment production. Just 446 locomotives were produced during the war, with only 92 of those being built between 1942 and 1945. In total, 92.7% of the wartime production of railroad equipment by the USSR was supplied by Lend-Lease, including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars which augmented the existing prewar stocks of at least 20,000 locomotives and half a million railcars. Furthermore, much of the logistical assistance of the Soviet military was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks. Indeed, by 1945, nearly a third of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge ¾ ton and Studebaker 2½ ton were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. American shipments of telephone cable, aluminum, canned rations, and clothing were also critical. Lend-Lease also supplied significant amounts of weapons and ammunition. The Soviet air force received 18,200 aircraft, which amounted to about 30% of Soviet wartime aircraft production (mid 1941-45). And while most tank units were Soviet-built models, some 7,000 Lend-Lease tanks were deployed by the Red Army, or 8% of war-time production. According to the Russian historian Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Lend-Lease had a crucial role in winning the war: On the whole the following conclusion can be drawn: that without these Western shipments under Lend-Lease the Soviet Union not only would not have been able to win the Great Patriotic War, it would not have been able even to oppose the German invaders, since it could not itself produce sufficient quantities of arms and military equipment or adequate supplies of fuel and ammunition. The Soviet authorities were well aware of this dependency on Lend-Lease. Thus, Stalin told Harry Hopkins [FDR's emissary to Moscow in July 1941] that the U.S.S.R. could not match Germany's might as an occupier of Europe and its resources. Nikita Khrushchev, having served as a military commissar and intermediary between Stalin and his generals during the war, addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs: "I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so". Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference during 1943, acknowledged publicly the importance of American efforts during a dinner at the conference: "Without American production the United Nations (the Allies) could never have won the war." In a confidential interview with the wartime correspondent Konstantin Simonov, the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov is quoted as saying: Today (1963) some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war. You can find it all here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease#US_deliveries_to_the_Soviet_Union

Damn this is an amazing video man

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

thank you !

awesome video :)

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Great video. You are right. WW2 was won by Soviet blood (soldiers) and American steel (Industry/supply). Combination of these two factors was critical to beat III Reich

@alejandrodadasvalcarcesanc8254

5 жыл бұрын

False the Sherman tank was a shit.

@vishamvisham1089

5 жыл бұрын

@@alejandrodadasvalcarcesanc8254 about American steel (Industry/supply). This is not related to perfect weapon, but the huge numbers. I don't remember exact numbers for Lend Lease - but Americans sent to Soviet Union e.g. dozens (!!) of millions of shoes, enormous amount of steel (used to T-34 tanks)... etc. All this was the reason why Soviet Army starting from late 1942 was better equipped then Germans. And WWII was decided in Eastern Front. That is unquestionable.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

This is a bit misleading because we need to remember that the Americans achieved peak deliverables in lend lease by late 1943. So the Soviets were pretty much at it alone in 1941 and 1942.

@vishamvisham1089

5 жыл бұрын

@@BlitzOfTheReich Soviets received during first year (late 1941-late 1942) of Lend Lease about 5000 tanks (MKII "Matilda", MKIII "Valentine", M3 "General Lee", M3 "Stuart" etc.). They use them in a mass in 1942: second Kharkov Battle (May), Voronezh counterattacks (1 Tank Army June/July) and at Don west of Kalach counterattacks (4 Tank Army) before Stalingrad battle (late July). There were inferior to German tanks, so Stalin ask Roosevelt not for tanks but for steel to build T-34. That was brilliant idea. Production of T-34 then sky rocketed.

@vishamvisham1089

5 жыл бұрын

@Gene Litvinov We are talking about WWII history - not XXI century history of Russia. So first of all: "majority of german casualties were caused" not by "russians" but by Soviets (including Russians of course) Second: Did you hear about 15 millions pair of boots received from US. How you could make a shoes if most of soviets cattle were under German occupation. Would you beat Germans with bare foots? Did you hear about radio sets, train locomotives, aircraft engines (additional to 11 000 aircraft) huge amount of steel used to production of T-34 etc. Third: Lets look at the others opinions on Lend Lease From memoirs of Khrushchev: Хочу откровенно высказать свое мнение о взглядах Сталина на способность РККА и СССР справиться с нацистской Германией и выдержать войну без американской и английской помощи. Во-первых, хочу сказать о некоторых замечаниях, сделанных Сталиным и неоднократно повторенных им во время «непринужденных» разговоров между нами. Он прямо сказал, что если бы США нам не помогли, мы бы войну не выиграли. Если бы нам пришлось сражаться с нацистской Германией один на один, то такого давления мы бы не выдержали и войну проиграли бы. Никто никогда эту тему официально не обсуждал, и я не думаю, что Сталин когда-либо письменно излагал свое мнение по данному вопросу, но я все же утверждаю, что в нескольких разговорах со мной он отмечал, что дело обстояло именно так. Он никогда не заводил разговор именно об этом, но когда мы просто беседовали, обсуждая вопросы международной политики в настоящем и в прошлом и переходя к теме того, через что нам пришлось пройти во время войны, он говорил именно так. Когда я слышал такие его замечания, я был с ним полностью согласен, а сейчас я с ним согласен еще больше. Marshal Zhukov - May 27th 1963 …Вот сейчас говорят, что союзники никогда нам не помогали… Но ведь нельзя отрицать, что американцы нам гнали столько материалов, без которых мы бы не могли формировать свои резервы и не могли бы продолжать войну… Получили 350 тысяч автомашин, да каких машин!.. У нас не было взрывчатки, пороха. Не было чем снаряжать винтовочные патроны. Американцы по-настоящему выручили нас с порохом, взрывчаткой. А сколько они нам гнали листовой стали. Разве мы могли быстро наладить производство танков, если бы не американская помощь сталью. А сейчас представляют дело так, что у нас всё это было своё в изобилии

Beethoven's 9th

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Haha part of this is because I can't be bothered with editing so many snippets of classical music. The colossus 9th will do.

@adhdlama2403

6 жыл бұрын

Curious to why you cut it straight to the tutti section when the bass is starting to play (Though I understand it would be barely audible to some). But argh you threw me off there! Would have had the march section play when you were focusing a bit on Prussia specifically but operatic singing may not be everyone's bag :( (and a bit of a distraction) anyway I enjoy/like/love your videos etc etc. What an apocalyptic defense it must have felt like/been for Soviet, rushing to fight people who are legit out to exterminate you. Oversimplifying things I'm sure, but that's why we have you :^

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

the reason I cut it off is exactly as you described - it was too quiet. I needed the energy to keep flowing! Although I am not a huge Beethoven fan, I think I prefer Yorkscher marsch. I also thought the Operatic singing would be way too distracting. ' What an apocalyptic defense it must have felt like/been for Soviet, rushing to fight people who are legit out to exterminate you. Oversimplifying things I'm sure, but that's why we have you :^' Awww :) thank you.

What a great video!

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you!

I dunno, think the lesson of 1856 was _"Don't keep 90% of your army engaged anywhere but the area where the fighting is going on."_

The reason Germany lost was because of war of attrition... their main tactic was to have the main initiative with out loosing too much casualties... they quickly over ran Low Countries, France, Norway, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland And they almost did it to the European part of Soviet Union They got bogged down once in Moscow, then twice in Stalingrad and after Kursk 1943 the lost the initiative never to retrieve it again...

@opoxious1592

6 жыл бұрын

The Germans had sufficiënt recourses for the eastern front. Even for a war of attrition, but they were eventually wasted away, because of wrong dicision making at the by A.D. Not listen no your capable officers, that was the cause for the failure at the eastern front.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

attrition through reserves innit

@lukadinicc2229

6 жыл бұрын

Diebels Alt Again i will say,both hitler and his generals were right sometimes and wrong other times. But you cannot change the fact that oil shortages existed with or without hitlers comand,that the USSR had a bigger manpower pool,allied bombing,the wastest of Russia...poor desicions did not affect the conflict in the east as much as other factors.

@opoxious1592

6 жыл бұрын

No need for me to repeat the comment i gave you. This will be my last reply regarding this matter, obviously our opinions are completely different. You forgot something important. Germany did have enough oil up till 1944 from the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti. And again i say you, wrong judgement of Hitler, regarding strategy, is the cause of loosing this important location. For example: Hitler even wanted to hold the Kurland peninsula, with no militairy value at all. Over 203.000 German troops were stationed there to defend this useless piece of land. The German troops could have bin easily evacuated, using the Baltic sea (Germany controlled the Baltic sea till the end of the war) and be redeployed, the defend the Reich, but that did not happen. So the German forces were bottled up in a geographical culdesac, and fought back the Red Army, until the end of the war. This kind of situations happend noumerous times, on all fronts. This are the kind of things, that eventually will result in a war, that can not be won. These kind of unlogic disicions were common place in the mind of the Fuhrer "Adolf Hitler".

@lukadinicc2229

6 жыл бұрын

Diebels Alt kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYqjl6tpqLG4mMo.html

Haha soviet liberation army 😂 in the balkans they where far more worse than the wehrmacht.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

It's a name that they designated. I am citing it because that's what it was called, not because that was it was. It's like complaining because I use the term the Russian liberation army although that was its name.

@ivailo1993

5 жыл бұрын

Hey man I know that, it just sounds absurd to me. Nothing against you. "Liberation army" this is how it should be spelled 😁 if you know what I mean.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Ah okay. Sorry some people thought I was being serious in categorizing the Soviet liberation armies as actual liberation armies.

This has been popping up in my recommendation since 5 months now finally watching

Great video.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

thank you! be sure to watch my other videos.

If Nazi Germany instead adopted a liberation strategy to form the occupied Russian territory into a vassalized confederacy of states, like what Napoleon did to west German states, then the occupied populations would all support the German cause against the murderous communist memory. The workforce and military personnel of the Axis would more than double. And you would have a much stronger buffer in the east and aggregate anti-communist strength.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

That could be true, but an issue would be that the German economy was not geared toward war. So as people like Military history visualize state 'German wouldn't have enough weapons'.

@emsnewssupkis6453

5 жыл бұрын

The Nazis were nasty people who literally wanted to kill everyone, ditto the Japanese warlords. So all captive populations end up hating them.

@Mentol_

5 жыл бұрын

"then the occupied populations would all support the German cause against the murderous communist memory" - propaganda which denies the voluntary patriotic enthusiasm of the Soviet people.

@alexanderchenf1

5 жыл бұрын

@@BlitzOfTheReich You don't have to Germanize Russian military equipment. Just let the liberated Russians to use their traditional weapons. USA pretty much followed this path in the liberated Iraq, Afghanistan, Kurds regions.

I can feel the angry whearbos comming

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Bwork bwork bwork

@ReichLife

6 жыл бұрын

Such a shame people of your kind are much more common and cancerous. Not far from others spamming supposed jewish propaganda or those so called putin bots.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

I mean wehraboos are equally a problem.

@ReichLife

6 жыл бұрын

And trying to counter that in pointless spamming is even worse since it's avoidable and completely off topic.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

how am I doing pointless spamming?

Nice job with this video

@BlitzOfTheReich

4 жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

Magnificent video

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Merci!

The German defeat was mainly due to most of the world being hostile against Germany. Keep in mind that even before Germany declared war on the United States, the Americans were supporting Germany's enemies. Without American aid, the Soviet Union would have collapsed. Most people don't know about this, but Germany's industrial and economical strength was greater than that of the Soviet Union - especially after the loss of 1/3 of its best lands in Europe in '41. However, since the Soviets received alot of material help from the U.S., such as trucks, clothing and food, they could field more men than they would have been able to on their own and focus on producing war materiel.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

The German industrial and economical strength was indeed greater yes. But their economy was not as centralized so the Soviets were able to mobilize armaments production to a level greater than Germany. For example both had similar GDP's when the war started however the Soviets lost 1/3 of their GDP from the invasion. Even then, they outproduced Germany in tanks, artillery, munitions, planes, machine guns, smgs, rifles.

@RobertP2000

6 жыл бұрын

That's also because the Germans had to keep producing trucks and transports, while many of the Soviet trucks were American. On top of that alot of the German industrial power had to be spent against the Western Allies - even before the Normandy landings in '44 - while the Soviets could focus most of their efforts on their western front.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Yes but the trucks given to the Soviets weren't given until late 1943 when lend lease reached peak deliverables. It really is that simple. Nazi ideology did not allow for a command economy that could mobilize labor forces rapidly in times of war.

@RobertP2000

6 жыл бұрын

The help received earlier in the war was significant in helping the Soviets rebuild their industry, but the importance of the trucks shouldn't be downplayed because they didn't come until late in the war. Without those trucks, the Soviets would not have been able to push the Germans out of their lands before the war would have been decided in the west in '45-'46.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

again what part of they didn't reach peak deliverables until late 1943 are you not getting. I am not downplaying the importance of the trucks. They helped the Soviets finish the war on great terms but the defensive phase of the war was largely a Soviet achievement.

The only "win" for the Russians was that the Americans didn't listen to Patton who wanted to continue the conflict and take Moscow. Which they should have done BTW.

@evil1143

6 жыл бұрын

Why's that? A lot more lives wasted and no guarantee of a Russia that is any more democratic than it is today.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Would be unnecessary imo. American public opinion wouldn't have allowed it.

@Internetbutthurt

6 жыл бұрын

You do realize the Soviets would have blown the fuck out of the Western Allies (US/UK). Both the US and the UK drew up secret assessments/plans of attacking the Soviets at the end of WW2 and according to those assessments, even with the A-bomb the US/UK would have lost. Patton was an overrated idiot. His ability is a myth. It is said the Germans were afraid of him; the Germans didnt even know him! He was never mentioned in German intel reports.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

^ I am not sure I agree with that. The Soviets were starting to suffer manpower shortages in 1945 (the Soviet army peaked in 1943) and US/UK armies were much more maneuverable than Soviet armies. Given the high infrastructure quality of Europe this could have led to wide encirclement battles.

@Internetbutthurt

6 жыл бұрын

Well as a former analyst ive studied this extensively, furthermore both US and British plans came to conclusion it was suicide. I dont know what manpower shortages you are talking about; sure the Soviet had taken losses but they still had more than enough men. They had quantitative and qualitative superiority of tanks (Western tanks could not compete with the likes of Soviet tanks and had nothing that could match Soviet heavy tanks which were fielded in numbers, nor did US/Britain have the anti-tank capability the Germans had) and Soviet artillery was another major advantage. Soviet aircraft could at least match Western aircraft with some models being superior. Soviet officers and strategists were much more experienced than US/UK officers and demonstrated they could apply blitz tactics or counter them.

Good work again, comrade.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thanks!

you did a great job here mate

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Emmanuel Sebastiao thank you!

France is the world champion ^^ !

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

ALLE ALLE ALLE

@philipsalama8083

6 жыл бұрын

Vive la Republique!

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Viva En Marche = Emmanuel Macron. :P

@mohamedaboelenein7727

6 жыл бұрын

nice joke ...

@jacobhurley8179

6 жыл бұрын

When they forget about the adrennes tho

Cool video there!

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Interresting👏

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Nice work you did there with the voice over of the percentages lol haha. No really, good job, Blitzy

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

I darn fucked up

@vonrufensiean4630

5 жыл бұрын

No man, I laughed so it was a good think you fucked up :P

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

thx boi

I like how you gave both sides credit instead of giving one too much credit or bashing the heck put of the other one

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

I try my best!

Nice job,dude!

@BlitzOfTheReich

4 жыл бұрын

thanks! I hope you enjoyed the video. be sure to share it with friends.

Nice work young man.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

thanks dad!

Very interesting video Blitz. Sieg!

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

Sieg? Oh dear...

@thelovertunisia

5 жыл бұрын

@@BlitzOfTheReich Are you of German descent? Im from Tunisia but my mother is German so half German half Tunisian if you want. I Studied International Relations this ia where my interest for military history comes from. Just as a sidenote of irony my grandparents here in Tunisia used to hide a German Wehrmacht officer in our farm during WW2 from the French after the defeat of Rommel just as hundreds of families here in Hammamet did lol

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

I am not. I am actually of South American/Jewish descent. :)

@thelovertunisia

5 жыл бұрын

A judaic fan of the Reich hhh this is the best of all hhh. By the way ironically Martin van Crevel an israeli specialist of military history has also been very interested in the Wehrmacht. He even goes as far as saying that modern armies like the US or The IDF are Wehrmachtised i.e. inspired by it lol

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

@@thelovertunisia Well It's just a name about WW2 not necessarily an endorsement.

Good video comrade.

@BlitzOfTheReich

3 жыл бұрын

oooooofff thx though

@ZephyrSean

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlitzOfTheReich Comrade why the ooof?

@BlitzOfTheReich

3 жыл бұрын

@@ZephyrSean well I aint necessarily a commie.

@ZephyrSean

3 жыл бұрын

@@BlitzOfTheReich Yes you are comrade.

good video

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

thank you

12:12 that guy to the left of Zukov looks like Adrian Brody. (Mark Clark?)

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Haha no idea but you are absolutely right!

You got a sub from me, young man

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

thank you old man?

@theirishrevolutionchannel1087

5 жыл бұрын

In retrospect I did sound rather demeaning with that. Anyway, great video, great content, keep it up. I sent you a message on reddit too.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

nah it was a joke. It's all good!

Nice analysis of conscription to gain military superiority but the problem is - economic - taking the mass of your youthful workforce OUT of the labor pool means you had better USE IT because, as Bismarck also noted; “Nothing drains the State’s coffers faster than a standing army (ie left standing doing nothing)

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

that is very true which is why economists like Mark Harrison identified the over mobilization of the Soviet labor force as nearly killing the economy in 1942.

The problem with the reserve system its only used by Countries that holds no vslue for its citizens like Russia....

@BlitzOfTheReich

4 жыл бұрын

to an extent that is true but we can also use that for Germany.

wowow, this is one of the best and most convincing arguments ever! well done!

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Grazie!

Since you replied to most comments: Do you think that conscription/reservists are still useful today?

a very interesting idea

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

do you know that I live 20 minutes from Lannes birthplace? :)

@jiainsf

6 жыл бұрын

Blitz Of The Reich it always surprises me when people can tell my profile icon is that of Lannes

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

I initially thought it was Murat but Lannes was my second guess since they got big pride for him in Lectoure. My partners family actually supplied the stone to build the steps to his monument. :)

Props to you for mentioning Yugoslav partisans. They locked almost 900k of german soldiers in Balkans.

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

yes they did

The Krümper-System of 1807 was not a secretive scheme to create a hidden army, that's just a sort of a patriotic legend. Napoleon's administrators were not so stupid as to not realize something so blunt. While it did increase the number of replacements for war it wasn't as effective as the Prussians had hoped. When the Prussians turned against the French in 1813 the Prussian army and its trained reserves numbered only 65,675 officers and men (Craig, Gordon A., 1955, p. 49f.).

@BlitzOfTheReich

5 жыл бұрын

As my graphs show, the Krumper system did create a higher number of operationally capable soldiers. It may have not been secretive but it did not break the treaties stipulated, hence it couldn't be tackled directly by Napoleon.

Your pronunciations can be hilarious, but this was really informative. A nice take, going off of the biggest picture.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

Mate. My pronunciation in all my videos suck balls and I speak 3 languages as is. So go easy on me.

@PoolNoodleGundam

6 жыл бұрын

Not a problem, I think it adds to the charm. It's just a little jarring to hear words you've only ever heard being pronounced one way suddenly being pronounced in another.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

well sorry man :(

@PoolNoodleGundam

6 жыл бұрын

Don't be! It's great.

@BlitzOfTheReich

6 жыл бұрын

thank you :)