The Unknown Man Who Totally Screwed Germany
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- Senior Lieutenant Dmitry Lavrinenko didn’t have a moment to lose. It was November 18, 1941, and the Soviet tank ace had just received word the Germans were quickly surrounding them. A sizable panzer column was bringing up the rear. Hitler’s Wehrmacht was rapidly advancing on Moscow, and every decision would count if the Red Army were to have any hope of defending their capital.
Only one thing could work: a surprise ambush on the enemy. Lavrinenko had already used the strategy several times in previous battles to devastating effect. But as he cautiously maneuvered his T-34 to intercept the German tank column en route to the captured village of Shishkin, he soon realized that he would have his work cut out for him this time. The barren highway was completely devoid of any natural cover. He would have to pray his tank’s white paint would save him from detection against the bleak, snowy landscape.
Lavrinenko and his crew waited in nervous anticipation. Soon enough, the first German tanks began to roll into view, an imposing procession of daunting steel monsters. Lavrinenko counted them as they appeared. There were eighteen of their tanks against just his one. The odds were stacked heavily against him, but there was no time to dwell on the disparities. With the first panzer in the T-34’s sights, it was time for the battle to commence…
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Stalin was every bit as brutal as Hitler was. In the mid 30s he completely purged his military of all senior leadership. Killing everyone from generals down to lieutenant. When the nazis invaded there were very few experienced commanders left.
Kamala Harris is NOT as brutal. She is strong and kind, shame on you.
@@GardenGuy1943 What does that even have to do with anything here, Literally brain rotted.
Stalin has a higher body count then Hitler as well.
Well. There is a reason why nazi germany and soviet russia were allies when ww2 started. The russians attacked poland alongside their nazi friends.
It's called cleaning house of traitors, reactionaries, counter-revolutionaries and enemies of the people. Hitler murdered innocents, Stalin liquidated criminals.
Dang that was a kiss and a half 😂
Yeah wtf was that about? Not expecting that at all…
Colonel Sanders pulled back, then moved in for seconds
and they call it... Puppy lovvvveeee
@@jedo5821I saw the original post about some “kiss and a half” and I was literally expecting some woman giving him a grateful kiss or some crap and then….i saw THE kiss. I was not expecting that either. That was intense. I guess you go to battle together and you rub mustaches together?
Yeah that was a little too zesty
In 1941 the t-34 didn’t face Tigers or Panthers. It faced Panzer 1s, 2s,3s and 4s with the most deadly the Panzer 3 with a 50 mm gun and without slopped armour was no match for a t-34.
@CliffE-th8vs Not according to the Russian field study conducted by.
Central Scientific Research Institute No.48 (ЦНИИ 48),
Out of the full sample of 178 tanks, we subtract out 24 tanks disabled purely through mechanical failure - this leaves 154 tanks that had some sort of armor penetration damage, with a total number of projectile impacts at 534, subdivided as:
· 432 (81%) projectile impacts (penetrations & bounces) on the hulls
· 102 (19%) projectile impacts on the turrets
The 534 projectile impacts are further subdivided into:
· 289 (54%) impacts that did not result in internal damage to the tank and crew
· 245 (46%) impacts that resulted in internal damage.
There's a chart that shows 54.3% of the hits were from 50mm. 23.7% of those rounds penetrated the tank. Even 1.2 % of 20mm penetrated the armor.
So no you are repeating a myth.
and?
[Lazerpig has entered the chat]
I find it hard to feel good about anything the Soviets did in WW II because they were not only one of the original invaders, what they did after the war resulted with them killing at least as many innocents in Eastern Europe over the next 50 years while inflicting untold misery on millions of their "citizens" (citizens = occupied countries).
No excuses but the Germans did a number to them. Jesuits wanted to kill all communist and bring back orthodox Christianity to Russia. Hitler who was a rothschild bastard was their general. They failed but afterwards it took a while but they got their wishes.
All true but Hitler turning on Russia, leading to Russia joining the Allies made it much easier to win the war than if the Germans & Russians had remained a joint force. Also, the German invasion of Russia gave Britain some breathing space, with their focus not being on us for a while, & needing troops from the Eastern Front, Germany pulled men from other areas.
Wait till you see how bad Japan was. 30 million known in their genocide and had multiple class A war criminals that stayed in power.
@@thelunkygreenhorn654 yea I cant get onboard with letting the Emperor stay in power he was aware of everything!
I think the Allies should have invaded the Soviets after WW2
Was not expecting a cheeky mouth kiss at all
They even went in for 2nds. Disgusting
@@John_Redcorn_ Tradition. 😅
it OK, as long as you don't close your eyes, or slip the tongue in.....
Damn socialists/communists and their lgbtq+ nonsense.....been going on since back then!
@@colonelfustercluck486 it's okay if it's just the tip
You ALL heard him say it, the t-34 had a powerful 3 inch gun.
I've been saying it for ages, that's proof, three inches IS big enough, it's very potent, can do a LOT with 3 inches. It's plenty, so yeah... Ha
This is true. A gun that is three inches WIDE is very potent.
You didn't think it was three inches LONG, did you?
@@Tjalve70just smash our hopes, why don’t you?
Mix of prewar, ww2 and afterwar footage is wild, great vid anyway.
Took the Soviets 45+ years to award him the Hero of the Soviet Union? They weren’t exactly “Russian” to recognize the guy, were they?
They were conflicted by the idea of awarding a russian for fighting fascists instead of embracing them
@@derpdiggler7413 what?
@@revi5343 what do you mean what?
@revi5343 let's talk about how the soviets bent over for Hitler because they thought they'd get half of Poland
Wym thought they did like 100 precent they did get that in the pact@@derpdiggler7413
The fact that this guy in a whimpy little T-34 could do all that destruction in the time he did and under circumstances that might have sent anyone else retreating says a lot. This really isnt about the tank, it's about the man. He was basically a leader of a group of men armed with .22s taking down entire battalions of men with body armor and AKs. It's not the weapons, it's the tactics.
I think you're right. In terms of equipment, the soviets, matched the Germans, but in terms of training, the Russians were lacking heavily, which is why they took so many losses.
The fuck you talking about? Sure, the t34 was nowhere near as great as warthunder makes it out to be, but he would have been facing German tanks and AT guns that could barely damage him, while his 76mm could take any of them
It's not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. 🐕🦺🧐
@@jamesburns2232 True
You would fight hard too if the future of your people depended on it.
There were 45,000 t -34's destroyed while facing about half the German army. The reputation of the t 34 is so over blown it's not funny.
The Germans spent 80% of their army in Russia. The T-34 stopped being good as soon as the first tigers and panthers rolled onto the battlefield.
made it 60-80 thousand .however it is the most destroyed tank in history.
@@michaelpielorz9283 Due to bad Soviet tactics.
@@Vaushggmore like training and optics. You can't use good tactics when you get a few weeks of training.
And if you can't see or hit your enemy, your tactics become much less effective
@@angmori172 100% correct. Soviet training was notoriously bad, along with their tactics early on. In fact, one of the German Generals remarked that of the Soviets had better tactics and training, the Germans would've been defeated very quickly.
Those Soviet infantry at 7:08 are carring RPG'S and AK47's. Not possible in WWII!
time travel confirmed
@@topcat5233
your channel is sooo like awesome too!! Wait. probably dont have a channel or 1plus million viewers either....
Looks like someone didn't read the video description.
Ha ha. Weapon, Soviet military uniform from 1970's . Crap channel.
A very brave, cunning and patriotic man. He should have been awarded Hero of the Soviet Union medal during the war.
Was that meant to be a cheek kiss, but awkwardly carried out?
Russian men of that era sometimes kissed on the lips, if that's what you're asking. There are full-on mouth kisses of a various of Soviet leaders doing so. It doesn't equal sexuality at all but rather friendship and/or high regard. It was called "The Socialist Fraternal Kiss" or the "Soviet Kiss." It is apparently no longer practiced.
@@josi4251yeah- when I saw that on TV about 50 years ago, I thought it was mighty queer.
My guy it sounds like you're doing a whisper speed run through a tank engine. What happened to this channel you guys were doing so good 😮
Watching the evolution of your thumb and titles for your videos is always fun.
Sad that a tank ace got killed by shrapnel when he left his tank.
kinda funny really. The most ironic of ironies.
This guy demonstrated its the fight in the dog, not the size of the dog in the fight.
that tanker commander had a brain and the guts to take the initiative, normally in the soviet army that would have cost you your live and a ticket to the gulags, but he was lucky enough
12:24. what in the fuck?
Is this all proven? Countries have a habit of…ummm…”exaggerating” the heroics of their soldiers when things aren’t going well. “Ghost of Kiev” and all that.
This sounds like an NKVD fairy story...
That's because it is lol
Love how bad Soviet tanks were but how OP they are in games.
Seen the T34 at the tank museum UK, its surprising how small and low the tank is. With the German tanks the opposite is true, Tiger 131 is just large and imposing. If your a fan of the movie Fury, highly recommended to go and see the Tiger 131 and the Fury Sherman tank that Brad Pitt's character in the movie commanded!
Also go see Fat Electrician's video about the real guy.
Go back and tell them Russia will be needing it back
Tigers only came out in July 1943 and in such small numbers to make it insignificant against thousands of T 34,s at Kursk. Hitler lost Kursk battle by waiting 3 extra months.
You haven't encountered a Soviet KV1 then have you 😂😂
@@JDDC-tq7qm Actually I did in the same museum, in winter camo, no examples of the KV2! Got up close with the Tiger 131, Ferdinand and Tiger II.
T-34 Wasn't unstoppable, on the contrary it was easy enought to stop. But it was cheap and fast to produce, and their real strenght was in number, just like the M4 from US.
video needs a thumbs down
The M4 wasn't necessarily the US at that time could produce anything in mass quantities. The casting of armor makes it technically difficult and expensive.
We were popping carriers out at an insane rate.
Germans were knocking out T34's like there was no tomorrow
The problem was the Russians could build them faster than the Germans could destroy them
@@zillsburyy1 a few minor errors dont really necessitate a thumbs down tho
Sorry but no, at the beginning of the war in the east, germany had nothing to really stop the T-34, the panzer 4's couldnt get close enough to even shoot at the T-34 which had much greater range. Germans feared the T-34
"I'd rather you say it with flowers, sir..."
For all those who say the T34 was a POS.....OK.....but who won those tank battles? 1 on 1 battles are a fantasy, it means nothing that a German tank was "better" than a Soviet, British, American or French tank. Tactics & strategy matter & at the end of the day Germany LOST despite having all the "best" weapons, soldiers, tactics etc etc. If you lose you don't have the best.
bro, you keep using incorrect photos for reference and your thumbnails, its SUPER lazy and im unsubbing from all your channels one at a time as I get annoyed by this.
Wahhhhh
The only people who would watch this video are people interested in WW2 and you show a row of T55s for T34s....
Most Cossacks had the sense to fight against the Soviets.
I must note this; your clickbait titles are getting worse and worse.
unknown then it means he could be one of conscripts from their prisons
I feel like this is all hoopla
Feelings mean nothing, get some facts!!
I feel ur a loser...
Joopla perhaps
@@Biggoyi c wot u did thur
Ya its propaganda
Only hoopla is you …. Who you think stoped hitler….it’s hero’s like that…there is thousands of them unlike most Europe gave up without single shot
Thanks!
I get the impression certain units and theaters viewed these amazing numbers with skepticism. Kills in the east or in units that were less scrupulous were more open to calling hits kills etc.
"hold my vodka."
The hero got kissed on the mouth when awarded the hero of the war award. People noticed it and questioned whose casting couch he was to get the award. Just a guess.
One tank can't win a war. There were German tank aces who wiped out 100s of Allied and Red tanks but they still lost.
However Soviet tank aces won the war and German tank aces became prisoners or homeless 😂
This whole story sounds convoluted. Exaggerated at the very least
12:27 lol
awkward moment. LMFAO
IKR !!! Blood guts and bullets then we have this........wtf ?
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52 tanks in 2,5 months, insane
In 1990 he was given hero status............and then they went out of business. Hooooorah.
Imagine riding a motorcycle and getting hit with a 3 inch tank round.
You wouldn't even know you were about to die, that's a better outcome than the majority of combat losses I imagine.
Incredible and truthful introduction episode about that Soviet Tank ace who draws a wonderful patriotic Tableau by his furious, bravery, and deciplined manner....
At 10:45 we have Arnold Swartzenegger center stage.
lol! "Geet OWt. Geet owt. deres a bomb".
They gave him an entire tank for himself with a crate of cigars. He heard the Lamentations of German women....
Private Swartzeneggerov
12:20 AYO WHY THEY KISSIN'??? WTF GOING ON HERE FELLAS???
It was me...i am him.
oh wow
1:40 Ah yes, he was conscripted "voluntarily"
Like the U.S. Sherman the T-34 was cranked out so fast that the Germans just couldn't keep up with the numbers.
All of these claims are dubious as hell.
Of course if the story was about Americans then it would have been more relatable.
I'm sure this probably happened, but I get how it's hard to believe everything that the Soviets said Chapter and Verse about their hero's of the Great War 2.0
But America is guilty of it aswell. The whole War Bonds tour, while being necessary, was a lot of Fiction for their representatives.
@@user-og1ux8nr3i Yup.
@@user-og1ux8nr3i 2022 US: "Guys, I think Russia is about to invade Ukraine." E. Labrov: "Naw bros, We're just conducting exercises."
*invasion happens*
Putin: "It's because they're N*ZIS!"
Apparently, God needed a tank brigade commander….
Soviet tanks done more damaged than American tanks the Germans got overwhelmed by the T34s and KV1s
An example of why this is a moot point: If you have 1,000 tanks, and the enemy has 10,000 tanks, you lose. It doesn not matter how good your tanks are built and how good the crews are or even how proficient the command is on the battlefield: you would be overwhelmed and eventually knocked out.
This is the only reason the Soviets "won" at all. They just have the sheer numbers. Other than that they may have had the technical advantage for a short window of time here and there which was effective at slowing Barbarossa, but to say that their tanks were some godlike war machines is ridiculous and is known propaganda.
@@MrNecryptic soviet legendary tanks stormed Berlin the heart of fascists Germany plus it was mainly soviet tasks who were putting Germany war machine on it's knees and the allies had the sheer numbers over the axis but why did it take nukes and Truman asking begging Stalin to declare war on Japan to finally make Tokyo surrender that's the difference soviets used their numbers to crush it's enemies usa was afraid on advancing to Berlin or Prague fear of casualties instead of crushing the enemy's resistance
Panzer. PAN-ZER
What is a PONzer? Ridiculous.
Ah yes, the AK-47, which famously saw much service during WW2... before.. it's existence... 7:05
I wonder where this footage and script comes from? I imagine it is from Soviet archives, probably films shown to soldiers and public during the war? To raise morale…
It almost sound like Dmitry Patrenko , From Call of Duty World At War
Resnov: "D'RATZ ARR EVRRY WEER!!"
Dmitry: What is wrong with you!?
12:26 a little too passionate. 😂
12:25 why did they suddenly start kissing ?!?!?!?
Great story
Seriously I'm to believe one little man in his one little tank changed the course of the war...GET REAL!
the t-34 was a horrid tank. It would barely finish the first tank of fuel before breaking down. It just had numbers, just like the sherman. The sherman was reliable though.
The Sherman became a Great tank after it adopted one-piece front armor. It was faster than the Panzer, twice as fast turret rotation, and "fuel efficient" in comparison. It's kill to loss ratio was 4 or 5 to one, if I remember correctly. The newest Sherman's also had a wet munition storage to combat against cook-off after a hit. Very nice tank and long legs. She served until the 2000s in some countries.
video needs a thumbs down
Sherman was the worst of all. Soviet crews were horrified of a possibility of becoming a Sherman crew. Field crematoriums and coffin for 5 brothers were the nicknames given to the Sherman by Russian soldiers. Zippo lighter by the Germans. Domestic Soviet tanks were not designed to be "luxury tanks" by any means, but they were 10 years ahead of anything anglo american.
@predragmanov6341 the ronson caught fire easily
Yeah, but you got to have a solid dose of propaganda mixed in whenever something deals with WWII.
12:26 Ayooo what the hell
it was very hard for the Germans to knock out the KV tanks
Really? the german 75mm (pz4) had no problem going through a KV1, neither did the panzerfaust.
@@anton2417 KV2 was almost impossible
@@anton2417 You realise these came later right?
Your video's title seems to sound "misleading" and somewhat of "nationalistic" in my ears. You have many fans in Germany and all over Europe I guess. There is no need for "click bating revanchism" of this kind, almost eight decades after WW II, as I guess, as none of our generation can "claim being a Liberator of Europe" anymore, as we have just to preserve it.
Kind regards,
Jan😉
Lavranenko was Ukrainian. This is what the world doesn’t realise, is that Ukrainian soldiers won the war for the soviets. And there’s no such thing as “russian Cossacks” if anything russia always tried to disrupt and marginalise Ukrainian Cossacks.
100% with the name Dmitry Lavrinenko makes him Ukrainian.
He was born in Kuban which is in Russia but it's okay historically Ukraine also belongs to Russia 😉
12:24 WHAT THE F*** WAS THAT???!!!!
At 2.02 minutes, we see motorcycles with lefthand-side sidecars. The Russians and the Germans used righthand sidecars. Sloppy work.
I'd just say much of eastern front heroics may be propaganda. Both sides exaggerated kills to keep the home front entertained or docile.
unnoticed?? LOL
The T-34 was actually almost useless at the beginning because of lack of training, poor design standardization, and difficult to use controls.
For every German tank destroyed at the stsrt, it took about 5 Soviet tanks if they were lucky.
😂😂😂
@@brankomilicevic6904 Not to mention they had air filters so shitty, the engine would die after about 120 km but that was okay because most of them only drove about 50 before they got taken out.
@@JiresHacobdid german tanks made it to Moscow by any chance 😂
whats up with the thubnail ?
Red circle gotta click it
LAZERPIG!
LAZERPIG!
LAZERPIG!
He should appear...
Hes pretty good, bug does get some things wrong. His opinion on Russian tank dngines is wildly inaccurate. They aren't using engines ftom 1945 in the recent designs, any more than anyone else.
Its a comedy channel...
@@Kreistor Some? He blatantly fabricates information.
Lazer Pig is for comedy not information, the amount of things he has gotten wrong proves that, he is very good at making people laugh but piss poor at actually getting anyone to learn anything
I cant make it throuhg your video my guy...you sound like youre reading it with an intensity that has a soft tone delivery and it just gives me fucking anxiety.
Thank God for the soviets or we may have had to speak German
Consider the places the Soviets “liberated” had to endure Stalinism….
@@Rayman1971 -- not good for them but good for the west.
Lol maybe in the east. Germans would have to sue for peace with US and UK.
Dark Docking?
@@jd749 Lulz
The T-34 will soon be called back into service. Putin needs them…
No, T72 ´s turrets fly way better and are considered more dangerous than the russian Air Force!!
@@michaelpielorz9283 You don't know what you're talking about.
I'm wondering if the reason he did not get the metal he deserved was because he was not seen as Soviet enough IE he was Jewish or gypsy from what I understand it wasn't only the Americans who had the habit of not giving minorities the medals that would do them it was also the Communists have it as well, especially if you were not a party member.
unknown?
If you are getting your facts from Soviet sources , then I call BS .
You don't know where he got his sources.
@@Vaushgg I'm sure the Germans would say that a Soviet soldier was such a wonderful person .
@@augustuswayne9676 I don't think so.
Another legendary T34 commander plays a great role in the movie White Tiger. Probably not as real as this hero!
At 12:25 i guess Russian men kiss each other on the lips.
ENUNCIATION
mad that Russia has gone weak since then 🤣
Weak how is Ukraine doing with it's invasion of Kursk 😂😂
Most T-34's had a service life expectancy shorter than the time it took to burn a full tank of fuel. Most literally didn't make it far enough to need a refill.
You know nothing. T 34 was the tank which won WW2.
@@Jakez408 Yeah, with sheer numbers. Just like the Shermans.
@@ManiacRacingT34 made it to Berlin German tanks never made it to Leningrad let alone Moscow😂😂
sounds more like red army propaganda. What are your sources for this "documentary?"
The BBC department of totally true facts
Letter
Vaginally or anally?
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This reminds me of that one time when I was super drunk and completely messed up my wartime orders and caused a Country who went to war with THE WORLD, to lose.
The Russian “T-34” movie from 2019 is actually a really good watch. Rotten Tomatoes rating is in the 80s. Watching with the original Russian with subtitles is the best, in my opinion. The English dubbed version doesn’t really flow. It’s not based on this, but it’s still worth a watch.
Russians for the win!
that was me...sorry about that..😮
Soviet gaper Union
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BS
Soviet Union did not invade Poland in 1939, read your history or cite your sources.
Poor Soviet tactics cost them many tanks. By the start of Barbarossa, the T-34 was superior to anything the German army could field. Only the 88s were powerful to take them down. It was only when the Tigers and panthers rolled onto the battlefield that the T-34s were obsolete.
The steel quality on T-34 was so poor even 50mm Rounds fired by panzer llls chould cause the armor plates to crack
NO even the 3,7 was able to take them out and so did the short barrlled 7,5 cm.there are nice statistics available on YT military History visualized by Bismarck is a good source.
@@Random_merkava_enjoyer Hmm. From ww2 German records, I see the 50mm could penetrate the T-34 thought the front armour.
@@Random_merkava_enjoyer yeah the soviets had piss poor quality control on the hardening of armor the main issue being that many times it was over hardened causing it to become very brittle to the point that it would crack from rounds that couldnt penetrate it but then thats what you get from communism a sub optimal product with sub optimal quality
But as soon as KV 1 and 2 shows everybody goes quiet 😂
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