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- Within just a few months of Operation Barbarossa beginning, the invading Germans had reached Moscow. This looked to be a blow that The Soviet Union would never recover from. But then, in the 13th hour, aided by the freezing Soviet winter, Stalin led his nation in an unbelievable comeback that would see them steamroll towards Berlin.
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If the world is ever invaded by Aliens, you want a man like Stalin in charge
Some crazy paranoid, power hungry weirdo?
He would personally deliver humanity to the aliens if they gave him some power in return
@@petecoones1552 you needed crazy to beat crazy
@@desidog11 That's a pretty pretty pretty dumb opinion
Stalin could have won ww2 without loosing as many men as Russia did
He fucked Russia so hard it's still a poor backwards brutalized country to this day.
He got rid of all good scientists for example
@@petecoones1552 According to statistics, the ratio of military losses of the USSR does not differ much from other European campaigns of the Wehrmacht.
@@petecoones1552seems like an invented history you’ve never question
The factory exodus won WW2, the Allies won because the Soviet Union kept 75 percent of the Wermact occupied.
Total Wehrmacht casualties through April 30, 1945 amounted to 11,135,500, including 6,035,000 wounded. Of these, nearly 9,000,000 fell in the East. Casualties of the German armed forces at the end of the war totaled 13,488,000 (75% of the mobilized forces and 46% of the male population of Germany in 1939). Of these, 10,758,000 fell or were taken prisoner in the East. Today, the austere inscription "dead in the East" carved on countless thousands of tombstones in scores of German cemeteries serve as mute witnesses to the carnage in the East, where the will and strength of the Wehrmacht perished.
"When Titans Clashed"
David M. Glantz
In Germany there were 6.9 million deaths; 5.3 million were military. The Russians killed some 4.7 million German fighters, including 474,967 who died in Soviet captivity; They also killed a very high number of civilians. For their part, the Western Allies killed nearly half a million German soldiers and there were more than two hundred thousand civilian victims of air raids.[26] Russia lost twenty-seven million people; China, at a minimum of fifteen million
"All Hell Let Loose"
Max Hastings
Not to mention Hitler played a role, seeing how General Manstein and others at German command got more & more pissed off at Adolf's imagery ideas, including aligning themselves with Japan which gave Hitler the idea of declaring war on the US to doom the Axis.
Russia, by 1944, was getting tired of carrying the heavy burden in the East, and Britain, without any US intervention, could only raid German-held territory. The German army, by 1944, was very good at holding the line defensively against Russia with their Stug IIIs and other tank destroyers. Manstein, previously, in 43, did a successful counterattack at Karkov that hindered Russian progress for a few more months. So overall, the war could have lasted until the late 40s while America defeated the Japanse separately for a while.
80%
@@SolidAvenger1290 i like your explanation but it's Soviet Union not Russia
Not to mention the lend lease program when America funneled weapons into the Soviet Union through Iran
The whole thrust of this video seems to be the ' important ' role played by Britain
& the Marlborough creature - in WW2 .
We all know that the British played very little or no , effective role in WW2 - in the West -
and like the Americans - only entered the European conflict to stop the
Russians , from seizing the whole of Western Europe.
The first American troops landed in Salerno , Italy in September 1943 -
and the D Day landings followed on June 1944 .
The military outcome of WW2 , had already been decided by the
Summer of 1943 - after Von Paulus's surrender at Stalingrad and the
collapse of the Nazi armour at Kursk .
WE must NEVER forget that 17 Million Russian civilians and 6 Million
Russian Troops gave their lives- to crush the Nazis and save the World
from their tyranny .
Britain played a pivotal role.
That can't be denied. We had our Commonwealth too.
A great Navy and Air Force.
Our ground troops were solid in NW Europe 1944-1945.
However. It was ultimately the Soviets that had destroyed 80% of Germany's Divisions but they effectively had a second front in the shape of the Allied Air Offensive over Germany by 1943.
BTW. Paulus wasn't a Von.
Total Wehrmacht casualties through April 30, 1945 amounted to 11,135,500, including 6,035,000 wounded. Of these, nearly 9,000,000 fell in the East. Casualties of the German armed forces at the end of the war totaled 13,488,000 (75% of the mobilized forces and 46% of the male population of Germany in 1939). Of these, 10,758,000 fell or were taken prisoner in the East. Today, the austere inscription "dead in the East" carved on countless thousands of tombstones in scores of German cemeteries serve as mute witnesses to the carnage in the East, where the will and strength of the Wehrmacht perished.
"When Titans Clashed"
David M. Glantz
In Germany there were 6.9 million deaths; 5.3 million were military. The Russians killed some 4.7 million German fighters, including 474,967 who died in Soviet captivity; They also killed a very high number of civilians. For their part, the Western Allies killed nearly half a million German soldiers and there were more than two hundred thousand civilian victims of air raids.[26] Russia lost twenty-seven million people; China, at a minimum of fifteen million
"All Hell Let Loose"
Max Hastings
I don't know, England sure bombed the hell out of Germany throughout the war. Actually using white phosperous bombs that completely destroyed Dresden. And it was the British who developed the best counter intelligence spy network during the war, and who also cracked Germany's Enigma machine building basically the world's first computer to do so using vacuum tubes. Europe sure seems to have a policy of having only bat shit crazy men rule their country. It's happened in Russia that way for the last 100 years and counting. lol
Why be surprised? The entire CZcams is littered with Western propaganda accusing Stalin of every possible sin.
Yes brother you are correct
If you stretch your supply lines during Soviet winter, in order to fight people who call -40 a heatwave, you're gonna have a bad time.
The russians froze to death fighting the Finlander in the Winter war .
The Winter is just a rationalization for the Germans loss by September 41’ the Germans had a 25% casualty rate which was completely unsustainable for the Wehrmacht. For the first time the Germans faced a foe that fought back ferociously no matter the circumstances.
Europe's strength:
1. British - ruled most of world
2. Russians - could end the world
3. Germans - can beat France
4. French - lead Europe for 1000 years
Churchill's master race:
1. British race
2. Western Europe and North Europe
3. Central Europe (Austria/Poland)
4. Eastern Europe (Russia)
5. Southern Europe (Spain/Greece)
6. Indians/Asians
7. Africans/Aboriginals
Hitlers master race:
Germanic Aryans/Jews (British/German/Austrian/Norse/Dutch/French/Belgian)
Non Slavic Aryans (Other Europeans/Persians/Indians/Middle Eastern)
Slavic Aryans (He didn't know all Europeans are Aryans)
No opinion on other races (Africans/Natives/Japanese/East Asians)
Jews
Germany didn’t expect to fight in winter..
@@Tethloach1I read Churchill wasn’t too fond of Scousers and Glaswegians which was illustrated by his turning our own troops into both cities in 1926 and this is remembered to this day. An Gorta Mor. ☘️📚🎚️
Joseph Stalin's leadership during World War II is often underappreciated in Western narratives, which sometimes attribute Soviet successes to factors like the harsh Russian winter or Western supplies. However, several key points illustrate why Stalin was the right leader at the time and why more credit is due to him and the Soviet Union for their critical role in the Allied victory.
Firstly, Stalin's strategic decisions and leadership were instrumental in the Soviet Union's ability to withstand and eventually repel the German invasion. Despite initial setbacks and massive losses, Stalin's decision to stay in Moscow during the critical period of late 1941 and his order to defend the city at all costs were pivotal. His leadership helped stabilize the front and boost the morale of both the military and the civilian population.
Stalin also played a crucial role in mobilizing the Soviet economy for war. The Soviet Union underwent a remarkable transformation, moving entire factories eastward to avoid German capture and increasing industrial production to supply the Red Army. Under Stalin's direction, the Soviet Union produced vast quantities of tanks, aircraft, and other war materials, which were essential for the war effort. The Soviet T-34 tank, for example, was a significant factor in Soviet battlefield successes.
Furthermore, the success of the Soviet military campaigns, particularly on the Eastern Front, was due in large part to Stalin's leadership. The Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk were turning points in the war. At Stalingrad, the encirclement and destruction of the German 6th Army marked the first major defeat for Hitler's forces. At Kursk, the Soviet Union repelled the last major German offensive on the Eastern Front, leading to a steady advance towards Berlin. These victories were achieved through effective Soviet strategy, planning, and the resilience of Soviet soldiers.
While Western supplies under the Lend-Lease program did provide valuable assistance, they were not the decisive factor in the Soviet victory. The majority of the fighting and dying was done by Soviet soldiers, and the scale of the Eastern Front dwarfed the contributions of Western aid. Soviet industry, leadership, and the sheer determination of the Soviet people played a far more significant role.
In conclusion, Stalin's leadership was crucial in several ways: his strategic decisions, his role in mobilizing the Soviet economy, and the successful military campaigns under his direction. While the harsh winter and Western supplies contributed to the Soviet war effort, they do not overshadow the essential role that Stalin and the Soviet Union played in achieving victory over Nazi Germany. Recognizing these contributions provides a more balanced and accurate understanding of World War II.
and Lend and Lease was three percent of the total SSSR budget on war,
and started fully during 1943 when all the decisive battles at the east were fouht
Total Wehrmacht casualties through April 30, 1945 amounted to 11,135,500, including 6,035,000 wounded. Of these, nearly 9,000,000 fell in the East. Casualties of the German armed forces at the end of the war totaled 13,488,000 (75% of the mobilized forces and 46% of the male population of Germany in 1939). Of these, 10,758,000 fell or were taken prisoner in the East. Today, the austere inscription "dead in the East" carved on countless thousands of tombstones in scores of German cemeteries serve as mute witnesses to the carnage in the East, where the will and strength of the Wehrmacht perished.
"When Titans Clashed"
David M. Glantz
In Germany there were 6.9 million deaths; 5.3 million were military. The Russians killed some 4.7 million German fighters, including 474,967 who died in Soviet captivity; They also killed a very high number of civilians. For their part, the Western Allies killed nearly half a million German soldiers and there were more than two hundred thousand civilian victims of air raids.[26] Russia lost twenty-seven million people; China, at a minimum of fifteen million
"All Hell Let Loose"
Max Hastings
@Itzlegs I don't agree that Stalin's wartime leadership is underappreciated by anyone. Stalin like Hitler only cared about having unquestioned authority, not making correct decisions, military or otherwise. Like Hitler, Stalin was a ruthless, monstrous, and worthless opportunist who was in the right place at the right time because oligarchs thought him a bumpkin and a tool they could easily manage by putting him in a position of high authority. Thus Stalin invaded Finland in 1939 with winter approaching and with poorly trained and led second string troops, instead of six months later with summer approaching. The result was a disastrously pyric Soviet victory which cost more Soviet dead, wounded, and captured, than the number of Finnish troops in Finland’s 1939 military forces. Stalin did that because he thought taking six months more to prepare properly to invade "tiny Finland” was a sign of weakness. The result was that Stalin's ill planned inept invasion of Finland caused Hitler to draw the wrong conclusions about what he Hitler imagined to be Soviet weakness. And Generals who warned Stalin of this possible outcome paid with their lives because in Stalin's twisted mind anyone who was clearly right about anything Stalin was clearly wrong about thus became a potential "political rival." Similarly in 1941 Stalin ignored unmistakable evidence that a massive German invasion by millions of men was imminent rather than admit that he, Stalin, had misread Hitler.
As for Stalin's "indispensable leadership" once the Nazi invasion came, the Soviets weren't stupid. They quickly realized that anyone below General falling into German hands in 1941 faced almost certain death from starvation, disease, summary execution, or as they learned later grisly medical experiments. Under those circumstances the Soviets would have fought to the bitter end under any Soviet leadership. Moreover Stalin's massive military incompetence cost millions of Soviet lives needlessly. To Stalin, Soviet troops were always expendable since he had almost limitless manpower to draw on. And Stalin was never willing to admit that anyone was more militarily competent than he was lest his regime be "destabilized" thereby.
Moreover, Hitler's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union was doomed from the start because the Soviet Union was much too vast to supply any invading armies no matter their initial military superiority. Hitler was a victim of his deluded theories of German racial superiority, the main reason he thought "we have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten [Soviet] structure will come down (paraphrasing). Many years later in a rare moment of candor Stalin admitted that when the other Soviet big wigs tracked him down to his dacha in the early days of the war, he Stalin thought they were there to arrest him. Indeed it seems obvious that under genuinely able leadership the inevitable Soviet victory would have come sooner and at much less cost in needlessly lost Soviet lives.
@@Steveross2851
Hello, interesting,
some of theinformations, like for example the one about arresting Stalin in dača I have heard and belong among many myths
about this period. Shortly, not only half true, but completely incorect. What sources do you rely on my friend?
Do you want to rely on what others tell you? Then you risk that if you are told lie, you will repeat lie after. And tell me who wants to be a liar?
Look, there are some news about this perios you describe, i try to translate them from Czech as I am Czech.
For example about Stalin: Today, the mass of "historians" claim that Stalin allegedly pathologically sought power.
Archives are not accessible to ordinary people, but it is well known to historians that to
In 1927, Stalin asked the Central Commission three times to be released from his not very high position
of the general secretary: at the plenary session of the Central Committee after the 15th congress of the VKP(b), when he failed to obtain from
members of the Central Committee of his liberation, he began to beg them to at least be released from the position of general secretary and
mistaken for an ordinary secretary like the other four. Plen refused him even this, but what kind of person
must he have a conscience to claim something about Stalin's pathological lust for power with knowledge of this?
He was the leader of the USSR and the country not because he wanted power, but because he was in that role
necessary for the nation and the communists, and neither the people nor the party saw anyone comparable.
And now let's go back to the Russia of the 1920s - to the period when Trotsky, exceptional
a personality in his own right, but a pygmy in relation to Stalin, he was trying to make Stalin
executor of his decisions. Let's go back to the question of how it happened that Stalin was not even a year old
1941 no state office, Stalin, who was neither president, nor minister, not even
the speaker of the Duma, was he still considered and actually was the leader of the Soviet Union?
Yes, he was a man of excellent ability and diligence.
Untill the begining of the Great patriotic war he did not have any decisive position.
There was so called ´politbyro´ and decisions were on consensus, not one doctatorship.
@@Steveross2851
Mary Louise Strong gave a report to Roosevelt about Stalin. Here she uses a report written by
Erskine Caldwell, husband of Mary Bourke-White,
who was present when Stalin announced the War to the Soviet people:
“Comrades! Citizens!” he said, as he has said often. Then he added, “Brothers and Sisters!”
It was the first time Stalin ever used in public those close family words.
To everyone who heard them, those words meant that the situation was very serious, that they must now face the ultimate test together and that they must all be closer and dearer to each other than they had ever been before. It meant that Stalin wanted to put a supporting arm across their shoulders, giving them strength for the task they had to do. This task was nothing less than to accept in their own bodies the shock of the most hellish assault of history, to withstand it, to break it, and by breaking it save the world. They knew they had to do it, and Stalin knew they would. Stalin made perfectly plain that the danger was grave, that the German armies had taken most of the Baltic states, that the struggle would be very costly, and that the issues were between “freedom or slavery, life or death to the Soviet State.” He told them: “The enemy is cruel and implacable. He is out to seize our lands, watered with our sweat . . . to convert our peoples into the slaves of German princes and barons.” He called upon the “daring initiative and intelligence that are inherent in our people,” which he himself for more than twenty years had helped to create. He outlined in some detail the bitter path they should follow, each in his own region, and said that they would find allies among the freedom-loving peoples of the world. Then he summoned them “forward-to victory.” Erskine Caldwell, reporting that dawn from Moscow, said that tremendous crowds stood in the city squares listening to the loud speakers, “holding their breath in such profound silence that one could hear every inflection of Stalin’s voice.” Twice during the speech, even the sound of water being poured into a glass could be heard as Stalin stopped to drink. For several minutes after Stalin had finished the silence continued. Then a motherly-looking woman said, “He works so hard, I wonder when he finds time to sleep. I am worried about his health.” That was the way that Stalin took the Soviet people into the test of war.
Margaret Bourke-White was the foremost woman war reporter.
She was to take pictures of Soviet Russia, its industry, its society, its prominent figures including Stalin, and some "rare specimens" never filmed before, like Stalin's mother in her distant Georgian village...
The pictures of the Kremlin meetings between Stalin and US Secretary Hopkins, that we presented in our last video, as well as many other Moscow shots in this series, were taken by the American reporter and first female war photo-reporter Margaret Bourke-White.
In 1941 she and her husband Erskine Caldwell were the only foreign journalists in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war. Margaret Bourke-White's photos were seen by millions in the West and became famous after publication in Life Magazine.
Yet it was touch and go, as we’ll see from the behind the scenes story.
We'll have a look at how this internationally acclaimed reporter, largely unknown today, covered the Soviet Union during key periods of its history. And we'll also see how, for over thirty years, she made photographic history: as the first photographer to see the artistic and storytelling possibilities in American industry, as the first to write social criticism with a lens, and as the most distinguished and venturesome foreign correspondent-with-a-camera to report wars, politics and social and political revolution on three continents.
By Anton Joly,
Brad Golding and
Pamela Brisley
czcams.com/video/13suuVDBSV4/video.html
44:00 ..."he knew better than anybody that no one condemns a victor"
A sad truth.
Funny to hear the subtle inaccuracies. For example, it is implied that the commissar system was abolished in 1942. In fact it was in August 1940; it was retained only at Army level and above.
He mentions the blocking units (Order No. 227). By some coincidence, he fails to mention that blocking units were abolished just 3 months later at the request of Koniev who argued that it was a waste of manpower that should be used to fight the Germans.
Lots of inaccuracies and sensationalist takes... The suposed german threat os uniting forces with the japanese got me laughing
@@luisfelipetovomachado493 Yeah, most of these channels/TV shows tend to have a very biased take on things and appease the Russian POV. It should be called "inaccurate real history."
And of course we know about the private meeting of Churchill with Stalin, from none other than "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it" Churchill. It was no coincidence, that he was awarded the Nobel prize for his histories ... in Literature.
Considering what Churchill did or rather not do during the Bengal Famine he was a monster, not on the scale of Stalin but a monster nontheless. While the local authorities in the Brittish Raj pleaded for aid Churchill did nothing and even demanded the export of rice to continue while millions of indians starved to death.
Churchill was worse than Stalin.
On the contrast, during a famine in India after WWII, Stalin demanded that food exports be given to India. When the officials told him paperwork was needed, he told them to get it done now.
If this is how Churchill viewed Stalin, then, imagine how he viewed his own regular countrymen, or regular people elsewhere around the world! He was indeed a monster himself!
Stalin killed millions off his own people Churchill saved his people and boosted there morale stalin forced his people against there will and forced women and children too build trenches and didn’t even evacuate cities during German attacks if anyone is a monster it’s Stalin
Lol, what you mean? Churchill was a convinced anti-communist, none could have a lower opinion about Stalin.
He even proposed Operation Unthinkable to invade USSR right after WW2
@@cucca96 he talked down on Stalin on the basis that he has no aristocrat background. That despite his massive powers. Now think of that he'd think of regular people who have neither aristocrat background nor any position of power
@@tomlxyz I totally misread the First comment, my bad.
I thought he was claiming a normal ussr or uk citizen would view Stalin much worse than the way Churchill did
@@tomlxyzNot surprising. Out of the 'big three' Stalin was the only one to not come from an ultra privileged background.
The German wargames before Barbarossa showed a German failure. Despite the Soviets having way more reserves, materiel and reinforcements plus stamina in reality than the Germans thought. Even without them the German plan had serious issues...
Late1942 Germany was already doomed, Japan had been stopped by the US using the left hand only. The Soviets had not surrendered and Germany could not handle the losses or keep the offensive going for long. US was building up fast. It really was only a matter of time when Germany whould break. Stalin outsmarted Hitler, the the West nearer the end of the war.
Germany was doomed by September of 41’ the Wehrmacht was incurring a 25% casualty on the eastern front rate which was completely unsustainable.
@@gregorymilla9213 true, but with men like General Manstein and his counterattack in 43 at Karkov, German morale improved after the disastrous result at Stalingrad. Germans found that the Russians were losing more men & tanks from the tank destroyer corps like the Stug II, etc.
This showed only that Hitler's imagery war strategies were the key problem, while the German high command staff still had tricks up their sleeves to grasp victory from the jaws of defeat.
@@SolidAvenger1290 German moral was never in doubt they fought to the bitter end their mistake was underestimating Russian moral in the face of certain doom . Even in defeat in Crimea and across eastern front the Russians fought to the bitter end inflicting causalities the Wehrmacht never experienced in France or any of the other countries they took over in a six week time frame . The Russians fought for a year in Crimea under the worst circumstances.
The Germans downfall was in thinking that tactical advantage would have more significance than grand strategy. Stalins ability to fight a tactical retreat whilst loading a million train cars worth of factory equipment then rebuild it all in the Urals and absorb huge losses in manpower could in no way be overcome by the Germans tactical advantage.
North Africa WAS an irrelevancy. The maximum size of the Afrika Korps was 7.5 divisions and perhaps as many Italian. Meanwhile the Germans had 188 divisions and the Italians, Hungarians, and Romanians another 100 fighting on the Eastern Front.
That was not Roosevelt‘s idea, but actually warmonger Churchill, and the only thing that the African invasion did was take it away out of the war, a hell of a lot faster and make a southern European entrance while more Americans were being recruited because we started out with an army active duty about 400,000 in by 1945 there were 14 million active duty army and that’s not even counting Navy or Marine Corps.
There were 560 tanks in North Africa in 3 Panzer divisions, while there were 19 Panzer divisions with 1,167 tanks on the Eastern Front so Rommel actually had a large number of tanks for such a theatre.
@@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- According to multiple searches (Google, ChatGPT) and my books, Rommel had 200-250 tanks of which about 75 were Panzer IIIs and 25 Panzer IVs at one point. There were also about 250 Italian tanks all of which were obsolete. This was in '43. For most of '41-'42 there were 3 Panzer and motorized divisions and nothing else. Having a lot of tanks is nice, but without infantry ...
@@kovesp1 Talking about the Battle of Gazala in 1942.
So It seems Rommel had 500 or so tank (German and Italian) in '42. Meanwhile, according to Copilot, on the Eastern front just the Germans had 5,600 tanks of all kinds (2,700 Pz III, 900 Pz IVs, 16 Tigers). I'm pretty sure the Italians, Romanians and Hungarians (these together were about 100 divisions) had some tanks too. The Hungarians had about a 100, the Romanians 240, the Italians a few (60?) ... don't know details.
Stalin was not the monster you paint. His decisions were previously discussed with the commanders. Nevertheless, he was firm as the war required
Stalin fue un GIGANTE de su tiempo. Iósif Stalin vivió en una época histórica, en donde el mundo requería de liderazgos fuertes. Así que tuvo que ser un dirigente enérgico. Severo. ¡Imponente! O, de otro modo, la “Madre Rusia” hubiera desaparecido del mapa. Stalin fue lo que tenía qué ser: Un Gran Líder. Un Gran Estadista. Stalin heredó un país yermo, rural, preterido, analfabeta, hambriento, supersticioso, deprimido, insalubre, carente de todo y, para colmo, delirantemente desamparado. Rusia era entonces, un país de “Siervos” (Esclavos), y Stalin lo convirtió en una súper potencia industrializada y poderosa, que puso a temblar al mundo. Rusia estaba atrasada en 100 años con respecto a Occidente y, superadas las precariedades y todas las devastaciones que causó la Guerra, él, Stalin, el “Fundador de la URSS”, puso en marcha el primer Programa Aero-Espacial del mundo. Seis años después en 1957, lanzaron el Sputnik I. Eisenhower, al saber de semejante hazaña, creó la NASA en 1958. Kennedy inauguró el primer vuelo tripulado hasta 1961. ¡Jáh! Stalin recibió una Rusia que estuvo en guerra casi 30 años. (Empezando con la humillante derrota frente al Imperio de Japón, 1904-1905. Revolución Rusa, 1905. WWI, 1914-1918. Revolución Bolchevique 1917-1922. Guerra Civil contra los “Rusos Blancos”, 1922-1927. De nuevo, Guerra contra Japón, en 1939. WWII 1940-1945… Más la Pandemia de la mal llamada “Fiebre Española”, en 1918-1920. Después les llegó el brote de la “Peste Bubónica” en 1926. ―En 1932-33, Stalin implementó una campaña general de vacunación contra la viruela, la cual, en 1936, propuso que fuese una campaña a nivel mundial. Iniciada por Stalin y secundada por todas las naciones del planeta, la viruela se erradicó en 1980―. Y, además el “Crack Financiero de Wall Street”, de 1929-1937). O sea que, Stalin, asumió el poder de un país golpeado por las guerras, enfermo por la Pandemia y, económicamente quebrado por la crisis mundial. Estas calamidades dejaron una Rusia desposeída y miserable. Stalin la rescató imponiendo disciplina y trabajo. Ni antes ni hoy, nadie en el mundo puso en duda su ENORME LIDERAZGO. Stalin fue genial; magnífico, cultísimo y astuto. Fue un Titán con mano de hierro. Amado por su pueblo y temido por sus enemigos. Hace más de 70 años que Stalin murió y, la Propaganda Occidental, no afloja en denostarlo. ¿Con qué propósito? ¿Ya como para qué? ¿Cuál sería su utilidad ahora? ¿Stalin se convirtió en un “Fantasma Ideológico” que causa temor? [*Y, acá, aparte, va un dato que dimensiona la grandeza de Stalin. Joseph Stalin, fue nominado DOS veces al Premio Nobel de la Paz (en 1945 y 1948), con el apoyo de múltiples instituciones universitarias de Reino Unido, Irlanda, Francia, Italia, Suiza, Bélgica, y Grecia. Esas nominaciones fueron tomadas en serio por el Comité en Oslo. A él se le acabó su tiempo a los 75 años. Stalin murió en 1953, sin recibir nada de nadie, pero sí, todo el reconocimiento de su propio pueblo amoroso y agradecido.].
¡¡¡SLAVA KOBA!!! СЛАВА СТАЛИНУ!!! ¡¡¡SLAVA STALIN!!! .
Facts @@salvadorvizcarra769
he drafted every man in the USSR and also the winter is cold... I saved you 45minutes, YW
He was a great military leader. And even if the winter wasn’t that cold, the Russians still would have pushed the Germans back from Moscow. They had great trained reinforcements from Siberia.
@@Alex-bs1iu good military leaders are defined by doing more with less, not less with more. Stalin marched millions to their deaths against a very outnumbered German army. and LOL great trained troops from Siberia... Oxymoron of the century!!
@@greenwave819 You’re just saying dumb simple history talking points. The Soviet standard army was OUTNUMBERED by the German army throughout 1941. And superior numbers isn’t the only factor to winning a war, Stalin and the Soviets were fighting off a war of annihilation against the Germans. That’s why they lost millions upon millions, stop soften up the atrocities of the German army and SS on the eastern front.
@@greenwave819 You have no idea wtf you're talking about. stfu and be quiet.
If Hitler knew who the Aryans were he would have found a different reason to fight war.
Aryan conquest:
India
Persia
Middle East/ Caucusses
All of Europe
These videos are great - thank you!
Слава товарищу Сталину!!! Слава Советскому народу победителю, освободителю народов Европы от фашизма!
I wouldn't say glory to Stalin.... he killed a few too many of his own and others people for that. Big props to the people of the soviet Union who gave their lives and suffered during the war though.
za stalina!
@@tempejkl za rodinu
The German military was too weak and small to ever take on the mighty Soviet Union. Germany lacked industry, and natural resources. Their airforce was small, insignificant, and just suffered a major loss during the Battle of Britain. Germany also lacked a navy, and the ability to cut off Allied or Soviet shipping. Many Germans knew that this was going to end in a crushing defeat prior to the invasion even starting. The German leadeship was quite simply CRAZY!
@FrankandCents28
the german military was backed by almost the whole Europe, three hundred million people, means outnumbered SSSR two to one
@FrankandCents 28, Yet General Manstein, with limited resources, successfully counterattacked in 1943. This is the big problem with how people misinterpret/have a very biased take of Germany during WW2, seeing that most are still in awe that a country the size of Texas (with almost a 50% horse-drawn logistical system) could nearly dominate Europe and fight off most of the known superpowers simultaneously.
Germany took the military science lessons from Napoleon and the Swedish Empire/ Gustavus Adolphus centuries before, and it still has a vibrant history of equestrian heritage. Hence, even in the early 19th century, Prussia had one of the top cavalry units in Europe. (epic history tv points that out in their Napoleonic videos covering Prussia)
Most of the German leadership was still somewhat competent and honorable, but Hitler was the critical problem, who became crazy as time progressed. The only way Germany was to win the war was not to declare war on Poland and not sign an alliance with Russia in 1939, along with any military assistance for Japan. Thus, Germany reduced the chances of getting the US dragged into war and increased the possibility of choking Britain's supply lines.
To your point, Germans should have taken the route that Kaiseirreich wanted to do in Eastern Europe had they won WW1 and created the Reichspakt alliance with other countries (Poland, the Baltics, Finland, Ukraine, etc) to contest Russia's aggressive nature in the East, seeing that Russia since the 1853 Crimean War wanted vengeance against the West, and including their former allies, the Austro-Hungarians.
Russia, since Napoleon in 1814, has had a habit of wanting to seek revenge against anyone they see and aggressively pursue it, even willing to commit war crimes in France with a civilian population that offered no resistance and wanted to end 15 years of war.
Shut off with Ur rumbling. Germany declared war as much as Japan did on the US. While it looks they were the aggressors, the allies had silently already declared war on them with many different actions. Poland was mobilising for an ethnic cleansing of Germans in East Prussia while the US was cutting off Japan from oil.@@SolidAvenger1290
The US reduced Oil Exports to Japan, in an effort to force Japan to withdraw from China - and the rest of Asia. If the US did nothing, it might well have faced the victorious German-Italian-Hungarian-Romanian-Japanese Alliance alone.
That was brilliant, thanks !
Congratulations on a splendid video. I learned a lot.
Hey harry, you say you learned a lot, did you know that the Brits along with your mates the US, they gave the Soviet Russians not just the Baltic Nations and Poland your Military Ally, but the whole of Eastern and Central Europe, 500 million Europeans to suffer under your mate Uncle Joe? I know you will disagree and for that Congratulations.
Stalin fue un GIGANTE de su tiempo. Iósif Stalin vivió en una época histórica, en donde el mundo requería de liderazgos fuertes. Así que tuvo que ser un dirigente enérgico. Severo. ¡Imponente! O, de otro modo, la “Madre Rusia” hubiera desaparecido del mapa. Stalin fue lo que tenía qué ser: Un Gran Líder. Un Gran Estadista. Stalin heredó un país yermo, rural, preterido, analfabeta, hambriento, supersticioso, deprimido, insalubre, carente de todo y, para colmo, delirantemente desamparado. Rusia era entonces, un país de “Siervos” (Esclavos), y Stalin lo convirtió en una súper potencia industrializada y poderosa, que puso a temblar al mundo. Rusia estaba atrasada en 100 años con respecto a Occidente y, superadas las precariedades y todas las devastaciones que causó la Guerra, él, Stalin, el “Fundador de la URSS”, puso en marcha el primer Programa Aero-Espacial del mundo. Seis años después en 1957, lanzaron el Sputnik I. Eisenhower, al saber de semejante hazaña, creó la NASA en 1958. Kennedy inauguró el primer vuelo tripulado hasta 1961. ¡Jáh! Stalin recibió una Rusia que estuvo en guerra casi 30 años. (Empezando con la humillante derrota frente al Imperio de Japón, 1904-1905. Revolución Rusa, 1905. WWI, 1914-1918. Revolución Bolchevique 1917-1922. Guerra Civil contra los “Rusos Blancos”, 1922-1927. De nuevo, Guerra contra Japón, en 1939. WWII 1940-1945… Más la Pandemia de la mal llamada “Fiebre Española”, en 1918-1920. Después les llegó el brote de la “Peste Bubónica” en 1926. ―En 1932-33, Stalin implementó una campaña general de vacunación contra la viruela, la cual, en 1936, propuso que fuese una campaña a nivel mundial. Iniciada por Stalin y secundada por todas las naciones del planeta, la viruela se erradicó en 1980―. Y, además el “Crack Financiero de Wall Street”, de 1929-1937). O sea que, Stalin, asumió el poder de un país golpeado por las guerras, enfermo por la Pandemia y, económicamente quebrado por la crisis mundial. Estas calamidades dejaron una Rusia desposeída y miserable. Stalin la rescató imponiendo disciplina y trabajo. Ni antes ni hoy, nadie en el mundo puso en duda su ENORME LIDERAZGO. Stalin fue genial; magnífico, cultísimo y astuto. Fue un Titán con mano de hierro. Amado por su pueblo y temido por sus enemigos. Hace más de 70 años que Stalin murió y, la Propaganda Occidental, no afloja en denostarlo. ¿Con qué propósito? ¿Ya como para qué? ¿Cuál sería su utilidad ahora? ¿Stalin se convirtió en un “Fantasma Ideológico” que causa temor? [*Y, acá, aparte, va un dato que dimensiona la grandeza de Stalin. Joseph Stalin, fue nominado DOS veces al Premio Nobel de la Paz (en 1945 y 1948), con el apoyo de múltiples instituciones universitarias de Reino Unido, Irlanda, Francia, Italia, Suiza, Bélgica, y Grecia. Esas nominaciones fueron tomadas en serio por el Comité en Oslo. A él se le acabó su tiempo a los 75 años. Stalin murió en 1953, sin recibir nada de nadie, pero sí, todo el reconocimiento de su propio pueblo amoroso y agradecido.].
¡¡¡SLAVA KOBA!!! СЛАВА СТАЛИНУ!!! ¡¡¡SLAVA STALIN!!! .
One of the most toughest leader I never seen
By now this documentary should have reached 1 Billion views. What happens to this generation??😢😢 sad
i Love the way you put the story So sweet listening.
It's hard to lose with such enormous resources
It's not that simple.
@@waynerobert7986it kinda is really. more than twice the people more oil steel soil etc.
@@NearAnat Hm... How do you explain the fall of France in 1940? Or the Sino-Japanese war?
p.s.: it's not only the resources, but who/how/where manages them
p.p.s.: i'm aware that it's quite cold to list people as "resources" in this case
@@stefanradev7034 because france stopped fighting and china doesnt have the industrial base of the ussr
@@NearAnatWorth noting that the USSR went from a third world country, at it's founding, to the world's supreme industrial power by wartime.
Another boring Allied perspective on the war.
Big if true
Personally I am glad we're not getting the exciting Axis perspective.
Keep swallowing one-sided, boring and tired Allied propaganda then. The simple good versus evil narrative suits most people, because they cannot even begin to consider that what they've been told by their masters for nearly eighty years isn't true; we're the righteous goodies and they are the heinous baddies. It's just not serious.
Amazing narrator
Without Zhukov none of it was possible
And British and American goods sailed through the most difficult seas on earth to deliver them?
Zhukov: "It's all in the numbers"
And without the people
@@tablet6109 about 200 million people would starve to death in the Soviet union if it wouldn’t have been for the United States, and some food going from UK. The USA had the lend lease with the United Kingdom and the Soviet union and to some degree China, but the people in China were many but the Chinese could not get it together and draft and train like the Soviet Union. Germans destroyed 75% of the crops, and as much livestock as possible during the invasion, and then more fighting going west destroyed more and more farm lands in the Soviet Union so the United States sent most of the food. Do USA sent coach boots whatever the Soviets wanted and the Royal Air Force in the United States bombed the hell out of Germany for the longest time and definitely throughout the summer and fall of 1943. Stalin wanted everything his way and it Molotov wanted a western invasion plus food and extra airplanes and tanks from America clothes, blankets, and everything else and the USA told Molotov installing that they were already fighting in North Africa, Sicily and Italy and they were going to make a western European invasion even though Churchhill kept insisting that we only go on through Italy, but Roosevelt wanted to make a France invasion and we were gonna do it, but it wasn’t gonna be at least until early or later 44 and told them out all the sound that they could have all of the stuff we were sending them or they could have an invasion, but they could not have both. Soo, j
Despite the Soviets said then or now the United States sent everything they needed to win a war, and not started yet or nearly all the people with a starved essentially. It’s blunt but it’s true. They don’t dare talk about Lend lease with the people in Russia at all and they still through World War II victory in Europe parade and I think it’s beautiful but most of the people who did fight were dead, or are dead and maybe some of their children or alive or at least that’s about the way it is now and those are the baby boomers who were born between the younger, silent generation from about 1935 up to 1944, and then 1945 to 1960 during the baby boomer age.
@@anthonyjgraves8967 he was good, but they all, including the civilians, would’ve starved if it would’ve been from the USA sending food to feed 200 million people back then and I think the UK was sending some. Do USA sent a hell of a lot of airplanes and even Sherman tanks despite the T 34 Soviet tank doing and being a much bigger tank, because it was smaller. It was an excellent and versatile fighting tank, but one had to really know how to engage with the Germans and those panzers and tigers, and you had to hit them in the fuel tank to destroy them because they were so much bigger than the American Sherman tank, but Russia had all the oil they needed, and the United States had all we needed, and that and water and the number of people will give you the numbers. Gosh they lost so many people because of the way the Russians would fight and it was their commanders, sending soldiers running into machine guns and that’s just incredible.
yet so much unnecessary slaughter, and the POWs from the Soviet Union that did surrender just because they ran out of some thing, and when the POW camps were liberated, stalling would have every single one of those POWs in the Soviet Union executed and that’s disgusting. Even the Germans didn’t do that to their room installing with the legal he did not even spare his son.
I think more about the possibilities of different outcomes had things transpired differently as time passes.The "what if's" that we will never know how much of an effect they would/could have had on the ending that eventually came,and they are endless.
Oh, you were a real tough guy Molotov.
this episode has been uploaded by at least 5 channels & theirs a part 2
there's
he always kept his word, a monster with principles
The British over-rate their importance in WW2. Stalin met Harry Hopkins in Moscow in July 1941. Harry Hopkins was Franklin D. Roosevelts personal Envoy, and was impressed by Stalin’s detailed knowledge of what Equipment the USSR was likely to require under the Lend-Lease Program. Hopkins was impressed by Stalin’s request for Aluminium (for increased Aircraft Construction - this indicated that Stalin expected the War to last 3 to 4 years).
Although Britain and France had collapsed miserably in 1940 (within a few weeks), Hopkins believed that Hitler was under-estimating the quality of the likely Soviet Resistance. The Germans and Hitler were so confident of quick Victory in 1941, that soldiers lacked full Winter Supplies. The Americans did not expect Stalin to dress like Western Politicians, but recognised his Leadership abilities. At one Meeting, Roosevelt called Churchill “that old Imperialist”, which caused Stalin to laugh in agreement!
the Germans were welcomed as liberators, lets not forget that part.
Especially in the Ukrainian areas and
Ukrainian Nazi detected
No they weren't. Only in certain Baltic nations and Western Ukraine (annexed by Poland in 1921 but taken back in 1939). And this was mostly because of the large Polish minority there.
It's just a documentary to demonized Stalin
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I just save your 45mins
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Hitler: veee rrr zeee mazter rayzz.
Stalin: da tovarisch then you’re not going to lose.
When dictators wage wars, all reason is thrown to the dogs.
OUR LADY OF VICTORY
THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
MATER DEI
The presenter has a vague resemblance to Lavrenty Beria
Stalin said the Soviet Union won the war because of the great job his ministers have done. He chose young, expert people for the posts. There is a Russian series about Stalin's ministers during and after the war here on YT.
Similar come back was seen when the French under Napoleon conquered Moscow but by March 1814 Russian troops led by Emperor Alexander I triumphantly entered Paris.
Stalin was a great leader before WWll and after.
If you’re a deranged loser who likes tyranny and communist idiocy, I’m sure you think he was great
Ask the kulacs, poles ,ukrainians , victims of his purges and the thousands of people who spent years in gulags for no crime . Great leader you say the bloke was garbage
Stalin was a brutal dictator that simply got lucky because of the Hitler's stupidity. He literally never saw the Nazi's invading and was taken completely by surprise even though he knew he was going to have to fight Germany in the end. If you call killing political threats and removing your own citizens to labor camps because of your own paranoia leadership then ok.
Well, good grief he had time to get the army together from the south and also millions to recruit!! I do not think that the tank and most of the gun artillery businesses were bombed & nearly all their food and livestock was destroyed, but the United States started the lend lease program with them & just about all the food from the Americans win. Russia and I think the UK sent the rest of the Soviet union on top of made me some of that they had left.. it took a couple years before they were able to grow in crops again, because the fields were too destroyed.
... Um, that's a quite interesting topic. One can't swing the pendulum in neither side: yes, the lend-lease was an important part in the USSR victory effort; no, USSR did receive little to nothing at the crucial period (second half of '41- beginning of '42), when they were fighting for their survival and managed to stop the Axis.
The 2nd front never opened until 1944 because the British and Americans wanted to buy the time to wait and see who, the Germans or Soviets, would get the upper hand. If the Soviets were to be crushed by the Germans, the Brits and Americans would (remained indifferent) or it was believed they would even have joined hand with Hitler to destroy the USSR. When it was obvious that the Soviets have got the upper hand in the war following the German's defeat in Stalingrad, only then the 2nd front was inevitable.
It's almost laughable that a video made by the English critiques the Soviet's territorial ambitions. This, coming from the English, who at the time boasted the largest empire, pieced together from chunks taken from the French, Spanish, Germans, Chinese, and Ottomans. Truly, nearly comical.
And now they're complaining that the Soviets wanted Eastern Poland and the Baltic states, territories that were part of Russia just 25 years earlier? What a pathetic video, rehashing the same tired Cold War propaganda.
Sure Jakoff
Those countries weren't part of Russia, they were part of the Soviet Union, which fell apart from the inside out. Roll back the clock just a very little bit more and they were their own sovereign states. They don't want to be part of your club anymore, comrade.
Not to mention that after Hitler's invasion, Russia had every reason to put up a big cushion in case of future attacks from the West.
@@lawsonj39 what the Germans did and especially the Nazis was absolutely evil and just stabbing somebody in the back like Hitler did is plain wrong by American citizen standards but we have a stupid government here who continue to get elected because oh they get paid for by crooked people from the world economic forum & United Nations. Most of the media is nothing but a bunch of propaganda because it’s fascist just like Joe Biden administration in the warmongers and rhino Republicans in DC and all over the United States and then Trump came and he was our fighting asshole!!! he means when he says he says what do you mean but he was absolutely not going to let Ukraine join NATO and they weren’t gonna be doing this in that over in Ukraine and then Joe gets in there and screws everything up and then rush, invades Ukraine. I tell you the leftists media here is so much cultural Marxist & fascist propaganda & Fox News is better, but they leave some things out. They have to because they’re corporate owned, and only private medias what I’m mostly watch, and I definitely pay attention to that and everything else is garbage because Americans are absolutely furious about our money always getting sent to somebody’s war & most of which we don’t even know about it. SAD!! the only time Americans are about ready to go kick ass and make sure we go. Sport stores is when somebody attacks us like Japan even though Roosevelt was daring him because he knew that we needed to get into the war to help the Europeans so we got attacked by Japan, December 1941. Hitler made his stupid ass mistakes in 1941 in the first was in June when he invited the Soviet Union and the second one was December 11 when he declared war on the United States. like oh ok.. you did not destroy any of our ships or harm the hair off one of our American but you can have some too😂 after Stalingrad if not before but I’m pretty sure it was the winter or spring and early 1943 the United States started in the war lease with the Soviet union, but I’m trying to find the exact date and getting that from Joe Biden. Obama, and Bill Clintons, fascist, cultural Marxism media and archives is difficult and Bush was a good president, but he was stupid!! Kicking ass in Afghanistan was the right thing to do but he should’ve never invaded Iraq and anybody in America with brains knew that I knew the truth about it versus what the media says. Putin said he asked Bill Clinton in 2000 and George Bush in 2001 if the Russians could join NATO. They told him absolutely no, but how rude.!!! how small are you coming from the western European leaders anyway but not necessarily the people perhaps. After being under Soviet occupation until 1991 they didn’t want that again and they still fear it to God. Don’t let anybody ever ever mass Migrate anybody end of your country are they will destroy it which is what do first ask Joe Biden and Obama was doing here since 2014 or 2015 and I’ve been doing in Western Europe since then. George Bush sent the military to the border in 2006 and President Trump had our border secured and started working on a wall but still 2.5 million it’s not true when they get through underground tunnels and we’ve had 20 times that mean you come through with Joe and I think somebody undercover said with the department of homeland security. It’s been 30 million that is coming to America in three years and four months.. if Trump gets reelected, we’re gonna blow the hell out of the cartels in the south and starting mass deportations because it needs to be Done. God bless the Russian people who like to put up with all that crap as if the revolution in the early 20th century wasn’t bad enough and then World War II.
I know that’s right and I am American in the USA and we were tiny colony of 13 states that drove them absolutely nuts and we were the biggest pain in the ass Great Britain surrendered, and just finally just left us alone! They figured we would fall flat on our asses and wouldn’t know how to manage ourselves, but our country did even though there were changes that had to be made like the US Constitution for one and I don’t know how we went eight years without a constitution without American killing each other, but they were! Some of them were but most not. Do US Constitution is what size in America and when the UK came back for some more and 1812, the USA kick their asses again in three years
The second front, in fact, was of very little importance to Russia.....More or less decent, as an aid, were American Aero-Cobra fighters (at that time a very good aircraft), BUT there were not very many of them in Russia and therefore the main work in the sky was done by Russian Yak and La.....The American stew also helped quite well:).... and Studebaker cars, but there weren't very many of them either. All tanks (we were making tanks much better than the tanks of the USA and England at that time), all small arms, all artillery were Russian. The landing of American British troops in Europe took place at a time when the Russians had almost already destroyed the fascists.
This was very good, BUT, it makes no mention of the vast amount of matériel which was provided by the US and without which Stalin would not have achieved his comeback. The story has been condensed down to a purely UK/RU perspective. Without the US contribution, the story would likely have been very different.
Having unlimited supplies from the West
Two monsters of 21st century!
9:25 => That's because the russians defeated the germans. They already had automatic Kalashnikov rifles.
The Western perspective on Joseph Stalin and World War II is often seen as propaganda because it tends to simplify or distort the true events. This perspective usually downplays the significant role that the Soviet Union played in defeating Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union fought most of the war on the Eastern Front, enduring massive casualties and winning crucial battles like Stalingrad and Kursk, which greatly weakened the German military. However, Western narratives often emphasize the contributions of the United States and the United Kingdom, such as the D-Day invasion, giving the impression that these Western Allies were primarily responsible for defeating the Nazis.
Cold War politics also influenced the way history was written in the West. During this period, the Soviet Union was considered the main enemy, and Western stories often portrayed Stalin and his regime in a very negative light to justify anti-Soviet policies. This resulted in a one-sided view that overlooks the complexities and contributions of the Soviet Union during the war.
Western media and historians often created heroic stories about Western leaders and soldiers while minimizing Soviet efforts. This selective storytelling contributed to a simplified, black-and-white view of the war. For example, figures like Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt are frequently highlighted as heroes, while the critical actions of the Red Army are less emphasized.
Cultural biases also play a role. Western narratives often reflect democratic and capitalist values, portraying Stalin and the Soviet Union as the opposite of these ideals. This bias leads to a portrayal of Stalin that fits Western values rather than presenting a balanced view of his wartime leadership and the Soviet Union's contributions.
To get a more accurate understanding of World War II, it's essential to look at the contributions of all Allied powers, including the Soviet Union, in a balanced way. This approach helps to challenge the simplified and often propagandistic views that have dominated Western perspectives.
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However one could rightfully argue that Stalin and his Soviet Union were just as bad and terrible as the Nazis... if we look at the sheer amount of lives destroyed, pain and misery inflicted. A grim foreshadowing what was to come.
@@MajorCoolD price of war
no you could not but you will
Bromance btw Stalin and Churchill 😂
It is sometimes said, though it is graceless to press the point, that the Battle of Stalingrad was won by the RAF over Berlin: Hitler kept 15,000 ack-ack guns that could have been usefully pointed at Soviet tanks, busy in Berlin where they did nothing to help the lost German armies.
Why is it so hard for Brits and Americans to acknowledge that Soviet Russia won World War 2 almost entirely through its own efforts? No, the RAF didn't win the Battle of Stalingrad. No, imports of American and British arms to Russia didn't make the decisive difference. It all helped, of course, but only around the edges.
@@lawsonj39 it’s not hard for the Americans in the UK but it’s probably hard for the UK or the leaders because the Russians and the Americans did the majority of the fighting. It’s just that the Soviet union lost too much territory to the Germans and I think someone was in shock for about five months after being invited because he couldn’t believe this by British intelligence telling him in April they were gonna be invaded and he didn’t believe it. Rumor said he was out getting drunk and trying to figure out what the hell to do which is probably correct but the Soviets had so much ground to take back and then they also took land that wasn’t there before World War II that Germany took, and they kept it after World War II, which was what pissed off America.. America had to fight the Japanese on the east and that more was about as pleasant for Americans fighting the Japanese as it was for the Soviets fighting the Germans except we did it faster, but it was a nasty island hopping more and it was constant amphibious invasion island to island until the nuclear bomb and a nuclear bombs killed much and millions fewer people than a Land invasion. The most important thing that America did and the UK also and mostly America will send food to feed 200 million people for about three years to the Soviet union or everybody would’ve started to death by summer or fall of 1942 and that’s true.. the Germans destroyed 75% of the field crops and mostly all farm animals which is disgusting. I can’t say too much because the Americans have Japan blocked off and those people were starving and they would not surrender. What is so ugly and I think that should be fought by the politicians and government that starts at and not bother people. God knows Americans don’t care about what’s going on in the rest of the world, but we want was taken care of here, but tell that to most of the presidents who think they know everything & warmongers or idiots like the one that’s in power now in addition to his administration that sucks. 75% of Americans are absolutely furious Joe Biden send our money over to Ukraine and then I brag about how many Russians get killed, but the truth is far more many Ukrainians have gotten slaughtered during the Russian or Ukrainian war, but the propaganda machine between the socialist fascist, cultural Marxist and the Republicans in DC. They don’t have the balls often times to be doing the right thing.- unless Donald Trump is around to kick them in the ass, will just keep sending money over to Ukraine and it pisses me off and there’s a lot worse than the United Nations and our governments doing to western Europe and America by infiltrating us with millions and millions of illegal immigrants who don’t work and all we do is work pay taxes and feed them and there’s nothing except for maybe 10% of the immigrants that do come here and they actually work their butts off and everybody else is home better off going back when they came from.
The allies got stuck in Italy from July 1943 to April 45. They met the russians in St.Polten, in the vicinity of Wien, and shook hands like co-victors.
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Stalin?
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The Great Soviet peoples under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.
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Joseph Stalin was a figure highly respected by Mao Zedong and Stalin supported the Chinese communist party in the civil war in 1949
Yes Mao and Stalin no 1 and no 2 mass murderers.
1 - 0 Game over.
What a fabulous documentary! Stalin made some blunders and was saved, to a certain extent, by his generals and ability to show flexibility later. The Russian victories ensure the Allied victory. Stalingrad and D-Day had to be linked and they were.
"Eastern Poland" was territory seized by force by Poland, largely inhabited by Ukrainians, Belarusians and Jews, in 1921. At one stage it included Kiiv/Kiev until the Polish army was driven back by the Red Army. The liberation of this territory in 1939 and again in 1944 was a prerequisite for the existence of Ukraine, firstly as a republic of the USSR and then an independent country. Poland's occupation of W Ukraine was no more justified than Putin's recent assault.
My great uncle Yakoff Strokinoff is celebrated Soviet war hero.
During the battle for Leningrad, Uncle Yakoff killed 9 Nazis with broken vodka bottle. He would cut ear off of dead Nazi and made necklace. While leading the Gallant Soviet troops into Berlin, Uncle Yakoff molested many German women. He would give ear to the ones he like as a momento. Comrade Stalin loved Uncle Yakoff, and would listen to his war exploits hours on end. After great patriotic war, Comrade Stalin made Uncle Yakoff attache to Libya. Uncle Yakoff built home in Tripoli and has had many Libyan women. When revolution came to Libya, and they killed Qaddafi, they came for Uncle Yakoff next. Uncle Yakoff cut ear off of the first of the killer horde and the rest ran away in horror. Uncle Yakoff is 102 years old now and has 17 year old Libyan wife, whom he wears out 2-6 times a day. Uncle Yakoff keeps necklace of ears on the wall next to his many heroic medals. Very interesting conversation piece. One day, Uncle Yakoff will have statue at gates to Leningrad. Thank you for your service, Uncle Yakoff
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Sounds like your uncle is a real psychopath... I don't like politicians, I don't like the mlitary and I certainly don't like wars, but I like history and unfortunately wars are part of our history and present. If only people would be a little bit smarter and let politicians fight it out themselves if they want a war... Why would you want to risk your life in order for a rich bastard to become more rich and powerful? it doesn't make any sense to me. I am an anarchist. Nobody will tell me what to do and what to do not. I'd rather die than complying to the simpliest of orders...
Amazing story🤣🍻cheers to Uncle Yak!
No more Strokinoff for Yakoff!
Yep a broken vodka bottle. That sounds so much like a Russian, or even a Grazi American..
I love vodka ! Those poor people fighting installing Brad and I just couldn’t imagine the living conditions and people were starving eating rats and whatever they can get. Damn! I think it was six months after that and the Asian or singer after the United States, started lend lease with the Soviet union, because 75 to 80% of their crops and livestock have been destroyed by fighting and the Germans and nobody was gonna wear that they didn’t eat and they couldn’t grow crops out there for a couple years because the land was blown to hell. That is so funny your uncle did that, but use what you have!
Stalin almost lost the Great Patriotic War, which should have been the "Great Revolutionary War", by purging the officer class of the Russian military. As is typical of a Menshevik like Stalin, the working people and peasantry had to make up for his strategic mistakes with their blood. Trotsky's Red Army saved socialist Russia and almost saved the European revolution centered in Germany with only a fraction of the lives that Stalin lost defending Russia and Eastern Europe, and if Stalin hadn't disobeyed orders to re-enforce Tukhachevsky the revolution might have succeeded and Hitler would never have come to power. Stalin's totalitarian pretense of revolutionary socialism was the reason that millions of good communists left the workers' movement. And if that's not enough the scoundrel tried to have Georgy Zhukov murdered.
BS
Stalin would not have been in this position if he did not drop his pants in the first place. Not to mention him wiping out his army in the late 30s.
Stalin rebuilt the entire Russian economy taking it from agrarian to world class
Вы врёте. Сталин не разгромил свою армию.А укрепил. Просто не успел перевооружить. Думал, что война будет в1942. Результат на лицо. В 1945 Красная армия взяла Берлин.
@@user-gg9hg8go6j Yeah ok kremlin troll - your "argument" is completely wrong. Tuka chevsky was a GENIUS and Stalin had him taken out along with all of the best officers.
He had to get rid of heads of the army because those were from pre Soviet times and probably not loyal. The military is always the biggest threat to any dictator
@@TheLoyalOfficer It is a myth. Documents from military maneuvers indicate that the Red Army had the same problems before the political purge as after it.
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Hitler's Axis Army attacked USSR, 1940-45!
A present for lovers of Stalin... As the video below shows, for almost 2 years before Hitler betrayed Stalin, Nazi Germany
and Soviet Union were the closest of allies who had negatiated the division of Eastern Europe between themselves.
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Putin will beat Stalin as serving the longest Supreme leader in power ! 😅
Stalin was Georgian. Mr.Putin is Russian.
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The Russian people elected Putin and you can't handle it. The best you can come up with is "it does t count! He's a dIcTaToR"
The British & French went to war over Poland then sold them out at the end of war😢
Stalin was as evil as Hitler and his legacy is still causing misery to this day
Ukrainian propaganda
@@stingingmetal9648 So you are brainwashed orc from russia?
A decent enough story about the Patriotic War. Of course, there are quite a lot of inaccuracies and ridiculous fantasies in it, which is absolutely not surprising for the interpretation of these events from the West.BUT still, this is not the wildest fantasy about the war, which is full of other stories from the West...The stories "about how Molotov slept with a revolver in England" are a little funny :)) or other similar small nonsense :).
Massive amounts of usa money ,munitions, food ect. Saved the soviet union, and Uk
It sure helped shorten the Soviets war vs Germany. But it whould never have been enough to win the war for the Soviets. Especially not in 1941.
Just having a second front oir rather a threat of one made things much harder for Germany. Here teh US and US aid to the UK really helped straight away.
Всё это было оплачено русской кровью. Мы не приуменьшаемаем помощь союзников. Но и и вы не преумножайте.
The Lend Lease card gets overplayed. It helped but the Soviets had already dug themselves out of trouble 2 winters in a row before Lend Lease supplies arrived in decent quantities. However by 1944 when the Soviets can't lose. The Lend Lease assists Soviet offensive power in a meaningful manner. Especially logistically. The Lend Lease weapons were not as important as the trucks and rolling stock.
You needed a monster, to win against other more evil monster who wanted all the world.
Russia and Germany started WW2 when they both invaded Poland. I would never have let Russia pretend to be an Allies after starting as an axis power. Letting Russia take too much after WW2 that they started was just dumb of the real Allies.
Plus Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland while completely ignoring Soviet territorial aggression and atrocities that murdered millions. We have been sold a false narrative surrounding WW2
Staline would have been fool to refuse Ribbentrop offer after allies sold Czechoslovakia to Hitler
No kidding. How did Russia get into a position where they needed to make a "comeback". Let's see, signing a non-aggression pact with Hitler, neglecting their own forces, purging so much of their military leadership... I'm sure there's more but that seems to have been quite enough.
The soviet union was never an Axis power. You have no idea what you're talking about. Sit this one out kiddo. Let the adults take care of history. You should go back to school.
Stalin offered the Allies a defensive pact against Germany long before WW2 started. The allies rejected it. You know nothing about history or Soviet foreign policy during ww2.
Браво!!! Хоть кто-то поставил недоучку на место😊
I love how pretentious this video is along with the channel name. Are you sure it shouldn’t be channeled as “real british, western convenient history?” Honestly if any channel plat themselves as a history channel and all they can do is show ww2 or cold war winners write the story bs. They aren’t a history channel, they are a propaganda channel. Like the video at 23:56 said, “for his, own, end”.
Stalin the master
Stalin the Master of Genocide.
History repeats itself because people fail to respect their enemies. Genocidal maniac, yes. Compressed 150 years of industrial revolution into about 20 years, also yes.
@@veritas41photo Both.
Greatest comeback in Military History ??? XD Yeah right, by having endless Manpower , lendlease from USA etc. And using his soldiers like a I Cant find the words even, I belive one of his greatest General Zhukov whas called the butcher by his soliders, that is just a bit. For every german killed appro 6-7 dead Russians great jobb, but they did it. But greatest comeback would be, maybe Napoleon, or Julius. NOT HIM ! or ?
This documentary is a biased one like all the weatern literature about Stalin. The fact is Soviet Union came into being in 1923 (1917-1923 were the years of civil war between white guards and red guards; so formally the state was established in 1923) and USSR was only 18 yeras old when it was attacked. However, it still beat the German war machinery. Before 1923, Russia was a backward country. It is the greatest achievement of the Soviet Communism. For the sake of comparison, France, which had been a colonial power for centuries, surrendered in just 26 days. Meanwhile Soviet Union was being defended while Luftwaffe was ariel bombing Moscow. The racist Churchill's role is overplayed in the WW2 because of the colonial structures of Britain in the entire world and contemporary neo-colonial structures of America which are the extension of old colonial structures present around the world. The fact is Stalin and Soviet Union beat Fascism. The contemptuous west can't bear the fact that East and Eastern leader (Stalin was Georgian) beat fascism while facing the wrath of bulk of the fascist war mchinery. Meanwhile Britain and America were having difficulties to land at Normandy.
045: They had AK47s in WWII? Who went back in time to give the Red Army those?
Stalin was the Evil!
It’s simple, because the United States entered the war and Germany was heavily outnumbered
red fascist
Ukroid Nazi
This is so anti-soviet if you think about most of the phrasing. Gross.
You mean the regime that killed 20 million Christians? Oh nooo, but that's okay right? We should only care about dead 🧃?
Да тут редко услышишь правду. Понятно почему западные люди промыты на голову антисоветчиной. Если им преподносят прям по Геббельсу. Ври и сойдёт за правду.
Stalin did not achieve a single thing in his career outside of Politics and murder.
Вы случайно не у Геббельса научились врать😅Слава товарищу Сталину!
Without the US help rusura
Crap.
Dude please should drink your tablets, You're talking some kind of nonsense. I seeing UK's REN TV?
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The maniac Stalin did not achieve anything .Georgy Zhukov did. Read your history...then speak.
If you've been watching World War 2's week by week coverage of the Eastern Front, you get a different picture. Stalin wasn't a lone genius, of course--he was surrounded by plenty of military advisors--but he did play a major role in directing the war.
Откуда берутся такие недоучки. Не зная истории обвиняют Сталина во всех грехах. Один Жуков ничего бы не решил. Была ставка где принимались совмесные решения всех присутствующих.
Omg this is terrible!
And then Ruzzia became Nazis. 😢
USA have always been fascists
Ukrainians were always nazis
Hes no worse than biden
Stalin was misunderstood
when I hear "the" Ukraine.... Cmon
I’m Russian and this is slightly incorrect
It could have had a different outcome if Hitler didn't attack Russia, Russia and Germany together could have conquered Britain then got the bomb and got America . All those factories that Russia moved were American factories that we gave them sent over on liberty ships. PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON WHERE THE FACTORIES WENT IN THE URALS AND HOW MANY ARE LEFT AND WHAT DO THEY MAKE THERE NOW.
The big " IF ". Alternate History, great genre and very interesting reads and outcomes.
Russia was a very long way from making the bomb. they only got it because of espionage & then reverse engineering it
The Soviets were planning to invade Germany which is why Hitler launched his preemptive strike
What a joke take. Hitler wanted an alliance with England but Churchill was a corrupt bad actor paid for by the "chosen people". Stalin was planning to invade Germany and Western Europe anyways proven by their rail lines being converted to the European rail gauge and their armies being in offense formation (hence why the Germans captured millions of men in the first months of the war).
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