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[@Treetop64]

Man. 'bout time there's some stuff about the air war over Russia! Thanks for sharing! W00t!!

[@randy95023]

Thanks for posting. Eastern front documentaries are surprisingly rare. Very interesting piece of history!

[@Kupferdrahtful]

KZbin recommendations brought a good one this time

[@joelzavala8359]

IL-2 Sturmoviks were good supressing tanks bellow but still could hold itself against air encounters when faced Bf-109 G-4 Props.

[@garden2010city]

Thank You excellent video a lot of informations .

[@rcplanetim53]

this one looks to be a good one!!! thanks... im sure its awsome..

[@KarayaYT]

@Hanomag: The two aircraft dont even vaguely look the same, are you sure you have your glasses on?

[@McLarenMercedes]

Nazi G. focused most of its army on the Eastern Front and the Germans had 80% of their casualties there. The thing is that other Axis countries sent troops and there were a considerable amount of Romanians, Hungarians, Italians and Croats. Then there were tens of thousands of volunteers from occupied countries in Europe who fought an "idealist war against communism". There were also a considerable amount of people in the USSR fighting for the Nazis, like Cossacks and the Russian Liberation Army

[@cwjian90]

Depending on the model, it could carry 1 250 kg bomb and/or 2 50 kg bombs OR 1 x 500 kg bomb with 2 smaller bombs OR 1 1800kg bomb, but carrying that would really slow it down.

[@c4nucksens8tion]

This was true in 41-42. And you are also correct about the Luftwaffe having to remove a lot of its forces to protect the homeland which relieved a lot of pressure on the Russians. By 1943 the Russian pilots were much better trained. They even had Elite units painted w/ Red. Gunther Rall mentioned this in one of his interviews. By the end of 43 earlier 44 the Russians had an airforce that was much more competent. They had many skilled pilots.

[@barkerov]

@Hanomag Though the russians seem to have omitted the good combat performance that the Spitfire had

[@civ5ww2fanatic]

@LiviuFloreaRo The soviets got some via lend lease, not sure how many though

[@ponsuresh2001]

In the initial stages Hitler would mostly heed to his generals' advices and was mostly successful and in the later stages would not heed to their advices and would suffer major reverses, while Stalin did the opposite. In the beginning he would not hear their advices and suffered very heavy losses and later he did heed to advices of marshal Zhukov and others advice and that turned the war on the germans and later it is history.

[@ImposingSumo]

02:50 "But Fortunately"?! How was it fortunate that soviet fighters were not available?

[@Kupferdrahtful]

Fortunately for the Germans I guess

[@robertkharjana7205]

Deadly war

[@communistjesus]

+RichardAngevin1189 The name of the Russian song is : я испражнился в штанах и он побежал вниз ноги

[@hzj79]

old german pilot did not have a chance to learn english as yet.... not a worry. soon all germans will learn their new national language - turkish. there are almost 10 million turks in germany with every new born, every 3rd is of turkish descent. not long to go my german friends. not long...

[@jvcyt298]

it's so out of focus I'm getting a headache trying to watch.

[@tteedghihh]

Never seen Danish subtitles before :)

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

I honestly didn’t know they could read.

[@BuddyWillis]

no english subs for the luftwaffe kraut at the end make me have a sad :[

[@McLarenMercedes]

Also, while Stalin did call the shots in the Winter War with Finland in 1939-1940 that campaign was such a hard earned "victory" he realized that party commisars with little military training made poor leaders in war and thus learned a good lesson. From then on he let his generals dictate the war, unlike Hitler who blamed the failures on his generals and often decided against their plans. Stalin did let his local commanders decide much of the war as it progressed but HE himself took the glory.

[@SabraStiehl]

The Soviets received about 19,000 aircraft from their western allies (U.S. 16,000 & Britain 3,000). Official records show about 15,600, but that's low.

[@LiviuFloreaRo]

6:53 is that a Hurricane??? I only know of the Romanians flying Hurricanes on the Eastern front.

[@bombarderoazul]

Most were destroyed on the ground, so they don't count as air victories.

[@andrelebaron]

the soviets were lucky that the allied bomber offensive on Germany pulled back the better part of the luftwaffe.

[@wertushka2715]

No, most of the Luftwaffe was on the eastern Front anyway

[@Leitis_Fella]

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, PLANE FLIES YOU!

[@อาณาจักรไรท์ที่3]

เครื่องบินโซเวียตยังกะเครื่องบินเด็กเล่น

[@McLarenMercedes]

That is not entirely correct. The Germans were actually numerically superior in the last months of 1941. You see a lot of Soviet troops had been encircled and forced to lay down their arms. There were few divisions left to defend Moscow and civilians were hastily drawn into combat to defend their land. So the Germans had more divisions at their disposal in late 1941 and it looked as if Moscow would fall and with it the USSR. Freshly trained troops from Siberia saved the day in the winter.

[@jaymoe67]

@Blasphemisaurusaoe3 hahahahhahaahhahahahaahaa!!!

[@t0ny1189]

lol