Eastern Front animated: 1941

[@marcinzysko1653]

Crazy to think that this was one long frontline, stretched thousands of miles, and each of those miles filled with soldiers, constantly fighting.

[@ThePRCommander]

Goes beyond imagination

[@leeham6230]

The greatest war in our human history. It's going to take a cataclysmic event for us to go back to this type of warfare. In the meantime, get ready for World War 3: Cyber-Nuclear-Robotic warfare!

[@coronavinny5886]

Even then you could see German's did not have the man power to hold out a total war in the Soviet Union. Hitler was warned many times. Hitler was so foolish taking them on without any long term plan. Surely by 1942 Hitlers agents in USA told him USA was developing an Atom bomb? He was a real man of low intelligence Hitler on the battle field but a genius at political manipulation he shuld have left the War to the Wehrmacht.

[@leeham6230]

@@coronavinny5886 If he didn't attack, Stalin would have eventually. Barbarossa was a huge initial success. They captured the entire standing russian army.

[@ASMR.GentleMan]

@@coronavinny5886 in hindsight he seems stupid, but you always need to remember what happened before the invasion. Germany conquered europe and did defeat France. Hitler never imagined that so quickly. That gave them the feeling that they can defeat all enemies. Second important thing: the ussr had huge losses in the finland war and the world thought that stalins army is just s rotten building, hitler thought the same and that wasnt stupidity, it was a common expectation on every side back then. :-) The western media even announced , shortly after the attack began, that the ussr is doomed. It seemed that they all were really really wrong :-)

[@kaen_tqk3918]

I never knew moving lines and circles could be satisfying.

[@art_means_artificial]

Eternal Glory To Russians Heroes!

[@Alex-sv5cf]

Rappa Kalja like murica in France and Germany

[@idklol132]

@Rappa Kalja and what about france and Britain?

[@unsuspiciouschair4501]

@Rappa Kalja warcrimes will always be part of War, not defending the people who commit them.

[@TotallyNot_PatrickBateman]

@ so German actions are justified then the genocide of millions of men kids and women were right then since it was war

[@redacted3557]

This. This is what history documentaries should look like. Well done.

[@goranpavicevic4856]

@Max Mustermann I obrve da way home

[@jimveale7809]

Year but the Background should still be a bigger Point than the fighting

[@lavalampa123]

@Ar Wi Stalin didnt want to attack , he even hoped that peace will last 10 years

[@CocoTaveras8975]

[Redacted] Watch Epic TV History, they're a great channel for documentaries as well!

[@redacted3557]

Thanks for the suggestion Chief, I’ll check ‘em out.

[@traceptor]

The numbers really hit you, imagine having 1 million troops defending moscow, but all of a sudden half of that 1 million is encircled and captured all of a sudden, imagine being a soviet commander in that moment.

[@YresTA]

В таком случае тебя бы отдали под трибунал из-за неспособности командовать

[@spicypeanut7645]

J. V. Stalin Speech at the Red Army Parade on the Red Square, Moscow November 7, 1941 COMRADES, men of the Red Army and Red Navy, commanders and political instructors, working men and working women, collective farmers-men and women, workers in the intellectual professions, brothers and sisters in the rear of our enemy who have temporarily fallen under the yoke of the German brigands, and our valiant men and women guerillas who are destroying the rear of the German invaders! On behalf of the Soviet Government and our Bolshevik Party I am greeting you and congratulating you on the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Comrades, it is in strenuous circumstances that we are to-day celebrating the twenty-fourth anniversary of the October Revolution. The perfidious attack of the German brigands and the war which has been forced upon us have created a threat to our country. We have temporarily lost a number of regions, the enemy has appeared at the gates of Leningrad and Moscow. The enemy reckoned that after the very first blow our army would be dispersed, and our country would be forced to her knees. But the enemy gravely miscalculated. In spite of temporary reverses, our Army and Navy are heroically repulsing the enemy’s attacks along the entire front and inflicting heavy losses upon him, while our country-our entire country-has organized itself into one fighting camp in order, together with our Army and our Navy, to encompass the rout of the German invaders. There were times when our country was in a still more difficult position. Remember the year 1918, when we celebrated the first anniversary of the October Revolution. Three-quarters of our country was at that time in the hands of foreign interventionists. The Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East were temporarily lost to us. We had no allies, we had no Red Army-we had only just begun to create it; there was a shortage of food, of armaments, of clothing for the Army. Fourteen states were pressing against our country. But we did not become despondent, we did not lose heart. In the fire of war we forged the Red Army and converted our country into a military camp. The spirit of the great Lenin animated us at that time for the war against the interventionists. And what happened? We routed the interventionists, recovered all our lost territory, and achieved victory. To-day the position of our country is far better than twenty-three years ago. Our country is now many times richer than it was twenty-three years ago as regards industry, food and raw materials. We now have allies, who together with us are maintaining a united front against the German invaders. We now enjoy the sympathy and support of all the nations of Europe who have fallen under the yoke of Hitler’s tyranny. We now have a splendid Army and a splendid Navy, who are defending with their lives the liberty and independence of our country. We experience no serious shortage of either food, or armaments or army clothing. Our entire country, all the peoples of our country, support our Army and our Navy, helping them to smash the invading hordes of German fascists. Our reserves of man-power are inexhaustible. The spirit of the great Lenin and his victorious banner animate us now in this patriotic war just as they did twenty-three years ago. Can there be any doubt that we can, and are bound to, defeat the German invaders? The enemy is not so strong as some frightened little intellectuals picture him. The devil is not so terrible as he is painted. Who can deny that our Red Army has more than once put the vaunted German troops to panic flight? If one judges, not by the boastful assertions of the German propagandists, but by the actual position of Germany, it will not be difficult to understand that the German-fascist invaders are facing disaster. Hunger and impoverishment reign in Germany to-day; in four months of war Germany has lost four and a half million men; Germany is bleeding, her reserves of man-power are giving out, the spirit of indignation is spreading not only among the peoples of Europe who have fallen under the yoke of the German invaders but also among the German people themselves, who see no end to war. The German invaders are straining their last efforts. There is no doubt that Germany cannot sustain such a strain for long. Another few months, another half-year, perhaps another year, and Hitlerite Germany must burst under the pressure of her crimes. Comrades, men of the Red Army and Red Navy, commanders and political instructors, men and women guerillas, the whole world is looking to you as the force capable of destroying the plundering hordes of German invaders. The enslaved peoples of Europe who have fallen under the yoke of the German invaders look to you as their liberators. A great liberating mission has fallen to your lot. Be worthy of this mission! The war you are waging is a war of liberation, a just war. Let the manly images of our great ancestors-Alexander Nevsky, Dimitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin, Dimitry Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov and Mikhail Kutuzov-inspire you in this war! May the victorious banner of the great Lenin be your lodestar! For the complete destruction of the German invaders! Death to the German invaders! Long live our glorious Motherland, her liberty and her independence! Under the banner of Lenin, forward to victory!

[@baxakk7374]

​@@YresTAСталин уже всех отправил в Гулаг. Он не мог себе позволить всех под трибунал, и так не хватало компетентных генералов.

[@YresTA]

@@baxakk7374 не пиши бред

[@hermanwooster8944]

@@spicypeanut7645 Wow, that is definitely one spicy peanut.

[@rafaelomansan]

The fidelity to the dates, troop movements and even to the individual numbers of the Divisions involved is truly astonishing! This truly shows the quality of the content and the amount of research put into it. Nice Work!

[@thelawenforcer001]

indeed very impressive video - its worth noting though that the unit size represented by an icon is a Corps (XXX) and not a division (XX).

[@NoahWeaverRacing]

It's insane to think how close the Germans really got to Moscow. The more i read into the eastern front the more it amazes me with its ferocity, and horror. I can't imagine living in those times

[@dragonache705]

Noah Weaver No matter, Moscow would have already been in ruins by the time the Germans arrived, the Soviets were not like the French in that aspect. Stalin was willing to put every man, woman and child between him and the Germans, and in that process burn the entire Union in order to stop the Germans from having any of it.

[@dodojesus4529]

@@dragonache705 I mean he had already prepped the Kreml for self destruction

[@alexeyelectron5829]

@Andris Falks Simple answer to a hard question. USSR has a bit more resources that Germans, this is true. But the war problem has too many variables. Imagine, what would has happened if Japan and Turkey attacked USSR?

[@soyusmaximus7176]

@Andris Falks The German plan from the beginning was to encircle Moscow. Destroying a pocket in Moscow is very little like fighting in Stalingrad while it can still receive supply and reinforcements. Regardless, though, their logistical capability and men in the field in 1941 wasn't enough to get the job done either way.

[@skollkeintroll9035]

fcking unbelievable the Russians experienced their "stalingrad" three times. Lost 663.000 in Smolensk, 420.000 in Białystok and Minsk, 665.000 Kiev. Russians lost in the first year more soldier than the whole fcking german army have mens. But they dont care. On the other side Germany lost in Stalingrad 300.000 Soldier and that was a shock from which they did not recover. Remember that the russians lost over 500.000 men in stalingrad too. But even in the year 1943 Germans punch very hard. Battle of Kursk: Soviet lost 863.000 and 7000 tanks (as the fcking defender), Germany lost 203.000 and 1200 tanks. How can a small country like Germany fight 4 years so successfully against the big Player Russia while they are fighting in North Africa and Yugoslavia (partisan) at the same time?

[@abdallah-nash-ramadan]

The USSR pulled the greatest "They had us in the first half" in history

[@lordtachanka8432]

Underrated comment

[@CocoTaveras8975]

@@White-Man True, kind of morbid really.

[@fuckoffgoogle9747]

@@White-Man USSR was outnumbered in the first year of the war

[@tricksnotreats7277]

@@White-Man in what way is communism worse than fascism? Communism isn’t even bad. The only issue is that there was never a true communist country. China claims to be communist but uses a capitalist economic system. Fascism on the other hand, has been shown to clearly not work. Let’s take Italy for instance. The whole basis of italian fascism was military efficiency, and we all know how that went. Fascism is a vague right wing political force that is not strong enough to unite its citizens together the same way capitalism and communism is able to. Capitalism promotes individualism, while communism promotes collectivism, whereas fascism is basically ‘I have no clue wtf I’m doing.’

[@tricksnotreats7277]

@@White-Man also fascism is absolutely useless and stupid. Unlike communism and capitalism which both have set beliefs and ideas, fascism doesn’t. It is just an extremely vague term. Just look at how many countries we considered as fascist during ww2 despite how different their governments actually are. Italy, Germany, Japan, Hungary, and Spain are all considered fascist during ww2, yet each and every one of them are completely different. That’s because there’s no set definition of what fascism is aside from extreme nationalism. It is a weak and ineffective government that lies to its people.

[@bennyblanco4rmthaBX]

The Soviet Union was truly a behemoth. They lost the equivalent of the entire German army in a few months and were still able to mount a successful defense. Incredible.

[@_dlh_drl_]

Самой сильной армией мира в 1940 была французская армия, которая была вся разбита и сдалась в плен. СССР не потерял армию в 1941, а понес потери, которые компенсировались мобилизацией. СССР победил в 1941, сорвав немецкий план молниеностной войны.

[@_dlh_drl_]

@@nz2191 Это миф о слабости армии Франции. Изучай. Была самой сильной. И по танкам, и по авиации, и по артиллерии и т.д.

[@maxlive87]

In december the russian army attacked on the intere front ,this is more incredible how was this possible after the losses they had?

[@tynoter8156]

more like stalin got his head stuck out of the ground and called siberian trained soldiers to fight in the eastern front and crush a stupid hitler who took control and ignored all his generals, declared war on the USA for no reason causing another front to be dealt with, made pointless assaults and refused to entrench in the winter or pull back even though his forces were freezing.

[@chinchalare19]

Because the germans were occupied with several war fronts. What saved the USSR from being totally occupied was the winter, transiberian and poor german judgment to fight several fronts

[@newsheed11]

Its insane if you realize how succesful germans were in the first year of the war yet they still did not manadge to break the russians.

[@tomogburn2462]

Yeah the Germans were doomed from the start. No matter how successful they could be, they'd still run out of oil and move farther and farther from their points of supply.

[@nstice1]

Especially after the encirclement near Smolensk

[@Deutscher297]

@@tomogburn2462 Maybe in 1941/42 but there is an advantage defending, you dont need that much men to actually defend positions and the first winter in 1941 hit pretty hard. Still later on the russians mobilzed more and more troops and when the germans had to fight on the west in 1944 aswell, there was a "soviet horde" in the east, outnumbering their own forces. At the end of the war, germans were outnumbered 1/12 at some battles.

[@rsears78]

The mighty German War Machine. They were indestructible. Even Stalin was nervous, but the Soviets had different plans. They weren’t loosing that war, no matter how many Soviets died.

[@newsheed11]

@@rsears78 i would not say that germans were indestructible givne the fact that they lost

[@Winner8501]

Honestly, if I had played as Stalin, I'd have ragequitted after the Kiev encirclement.

[@peepingtom9342]

It's not a well-known fact among Western public, but Stalin almost did ragequit at the start of the war. Translate using google translate this article: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Реакция_Сталина_на_начало_Великой_Отечественной_войны (name of the article can be translated roughly as "The Reaction of Stalin at the Start of the Great Patriotic War")

[@communistleader2410]

Dude there is no surrender FIGHT TO THE DEATH!!!

[@andraslibal]

I think that was the whole German game plan. Beyond achieving that they did not have much else ...

[@nyl0n733]

@@iyanev You must be fun at parties.

[@mashedtomato2079]

@@nyl0n733 yea me and the boys drinking and discussing ww2 politics sounds fun to me

[@user-leshiy99rus]

Let me remind you that Crimea and Sevastopol in particular were defended longer than the whole of France.

[@vrisbrianm4720]

That's hardly a fair comparison. The Soviet still held vast amount of land even during the farthest German advance. Not every European countries had the luxuries of huge territories like the Russian.

[@user-leshiy99rus]

@@vrisbrianm4720 At the beginning of the war with Germany, France had resources, weapons, and even some territory. In fact, the whole of Europe was not particularly resistant to resistance. And when they were quickly captured, they began to fight on the side of former "enemies". Only great Britain seriously fought back!

[@redarrowhead2]

@@art_means_artificial France has been one of the most successful military powers in Europe throughout its history, but world war 2 was a disaster which gave them that reputation. France also historically had a barely functioning government through much of its history after the revolution

[@1996koke]

I wouldn't say it's a fair comparison, the Soviet Union lost of territory before the Germans were stopped was several times bigger than all of France also unlike the Soviets they were not facing anhilation

[@NikFlatcher]

To be honest, one Pavlov house in Stalingrad was held longer than the whole of France.

[@johns1625]

By the way this is the PERFECT format for war history fans! Seriously please make tons of these. I would love nothing more than a few playlists of these day by day videos of every battle and frontline change for the entire war.

[@KyleLi]

Holy. Crap. I need more, I've never been so hyped up at little lines and numbers before.

[@dr.plauge3157]

Kyle Li so you dont know the Historia Civilis

[@wheezy1587]

Hakan Tokyay this animation is 200x better

[@madwolf0966]

Every little edge of that line that moves is a group or more of Humans

[@nomore9004]

I would like to see a video on gab.AI

[@KyleLi]

I love looking at little pockets and thinking "wow thousands of people died in that little drawing of a circle. Huh.

[@economicapple2609]

1941: Germans in Rostov. 1945: Soviets in Rostock.

[@dewastator9176]

Rostock is slavic city

[@ilegostaev]

@Der Panda Yes, the northwest of Germany WAS Slavic lands...

[@White-Man]

@@dewastator9176 Rostock - Germany city

[@paullim8491]

@G E T R E K T 905 lmao

[@thedstorm8922]

@G E T R E K T 905 What Islam have to do with this conversation?

[@AgentSmith911]

I knew the Germans were close to Moscow, but never that close...

[@blazodeolireta]

hello mr. Smith.

[@tonyromano6220]

Agent Smith lol with 3 worn out PZ2 tanks!

[@tonyromano6220]

Soviet army was 2 or 3 times than the German expected.

[@matosevaljevic7609]

Agent Smith bit never that close as napoleon was!

[@matosevaljevic7609]

National Socialist Squad ok, they burned it so it was easy for napoleon to conquer,but did i ever say moscow was russian capital at the time?

[@BatMan-fj8dy]

Quite possibly the greatest comeback in human history.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Pretty easy when the other boxer expends all his energy in Round 2

[@aungoo9700]

The Germans would have never won because of lack of resources, and the fact the Russians are not the French.

[@mcdull68]

Not even close to other come backs in history.

[@ebin4516]

This is by far the best video on the eastern front.

[@ebin4516]

Kenny911able it’s more of the the whole animation style is just a work of art, showing the flexing of the front line and movement gaps, it’s pretty cool.

[@ebin4516]

Kenny911able я буду смотреть его позже

[@Kontorotsui]

I agree, this is by far the best video I've seen on the war on the eastern front. Big huge congratulations for the great job.

[@voevashka]

You can choose english language as well, it was made in 2005-2006. Finally, its one of the best version of history about Eastern front and Great Patriotic War. english.pobediteli.ru/

[@fus132]

Valentino K. At the *whole* border you dummy.

[@Gerbs1913]

Germans in 1941: This will be easy. Germans in 1945: Well that was the worst idea we've had.

[@Gerbs1913]

@robgvm They should have finished their attacks against Britain and consolidated troops for the invasion of the Soviet Union. It's clear now that if you must invade the Soviets it should be with your full effort, not a rushed attack. In 1941 the Germans were fighting the British, fighting in Africa, and then decided to invade the Soviet Union. They had three fronts, that's the dumbest move they could have made. And by 1943 they would have had a lot of defenses set up on their eastern borders as well as more troops dedicated to that fight. The Soviets took enough casualties as it is, and with a fully formed German defense they would have taken even more casualties as a result. The Soviets after the Winter War were bloodied and were attempting to reform their ranks, adopting a defensive posture and not wanting to invade anything quite then. Inevitably, they may have invaded western Europe, but they did not want a repeat of World War 1 which is why they wanted a buffer zone between themselves and Germany.

[@Hopesedge]

@robgvm It's a tricky one, if the soviets were left to their own devices they would eventually have become unstoppable, and the Germans would have been crushed, but attacking early was clearly not a winning strategy, at least the way they did it. Perhaps attemping to finish off the Allies first before securing what remained of their Navy and heavily reinforcing the eastern front would have been the best option, though with Germany suffering it's first major defeat at the hand of the British it made them switch targets. If Japan had attacked from the east then things would have been a lot different, even if Turkey attacked from the south things would have been a lot different, it still may not have been enough but these battle lines would have been moved along a lot further. Better communication between the AXIS would have helped a lot.

[@andrespodra8459]

yah? And how would the "others" look at this? Commies attacking a capitalist state? As soon as they would have done it there would be no land lease. problems in far east with Japan/US. UK would sign a peace treaty with Nazis.

[@keziahdelaney8174]

@robgvm Indeed. Soviet would have attacked them. They had 1000000 paratroopers for exable. Paratroopers are an offensive core. Not many people know these things! It was a good plan to attack them and they would have won hadn't spent time fighting the Greeks after Italian defeat.

[@andrespodra8459]

soviets had 2,7 mil troops in the eve of invasion and 1 mil of those were paratroopers?!!

[@BrunnerNathan]

This is amazing

[@roman6074]

no.. this is scary..

[@Lightnings]

Imagine how many people died, took a last breath with all their individual history, family, hopes, dreams - each time a line changes only a wee bit.

[@wrednax8594]

How come I never manage to pull this off in Hearts of Iron 4??!!

[@hanzoverlord6720]

Wrednax What do you mean?

[@hanzoverlord6720]

Wrednax You have to use tank force to encircle troops instead of attacking simultaneously with infantry.

[@pershing6367]

Use 40 width divisions w/ logistics companies I recommend a 17/1/2/1 design(17 infantry, 2 anti air, 1 artillery, 1 anti tank) support arty, and engineer company as well as logistics company and perhaps field hospitals.Should get you through the eastern front no problem

[@bunnieskitties293]

You didnt dope your soldiers up on meth before combat.

[@nonautemrexchristus5637]

40 width medium tanks with logistics and radio companies, encircle with air superiority and their infantry spam will become worthless. Add me on steam if you want to fuck up the Soviets mate

[@ialeg3710]

I honestly can't imagine the amount of work needed to make this, you could have just used a moving frontline, but instead you decided to look into what each division from both sides was doing at the time. You deserve more recognition.

[@frogchip6484]

ikr like how the hell did he manage this

[@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне]

What exactly makes you think that this is what actually happened and aint just playback of another HoI game?

[@frogchip6484]

@@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне No man other than TommyKay could've made that T H I C C encirclement of Kiev bro

[@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне]

@@frogchip6484 I have no idea who you talking about. I know one thing tho: your sentence does not answer my question.

[@frogchip6484]

@@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне Yea it does it means that these encirclements in kiev and other places couldn't be done in hoi4.

[@Knowledgia]

Love it!

[@conspiracyscholor7866]

THE WORLD IS FLAT YOU FOOL, RUSSIA MAJOR DOES NOT EXIST!!

[@KyleF841]

IKR

[@Luka-pv2dt]

better then yours XD

[@malowski111]

yup

[@deathpersonplayz7620]

LOL the animated Soviet divisions are glitching when they overlap

[@deadlyknights1119]

You guys did a really good job at animating the feeling of a struggle, the way the units push and pull back, it’s felt immensely. Especially in the 1943 video.

[@alexanderbutler2989]

"Artillery is the king of the battlefield...logistics is his queen."

[@snoo333]

@Aggressive Tubesock lol

[@alexanderbutler2989]

@Aggressive Tubesock maybe not a slut but def a bitch if you dont have it

[@NiquidFox]

Actually infantry is the queen of battle

[@alexanderbutler2989]

@Matthew Littlejohn send the pawns in first. But anyone who has played chess knows how valuable a well placed pawn is. Or how impotent a crappy underdeveloped rook is. Point is. Artillery is the big killer in war. Artillery and mortars. But if you got no supply lines...your offense (or defense) fails and its kaput army group south.

[@super_heavy_battleship4205]

Alexander Butler True but in WW2 Tanks where the real important part.

[@davidchristensen6908]

I went to Russia in 1998. I saw the monument showing where the German army was stopped. I went to 2 military museums and enjoyed my visit very much. The fight between Germany and Russia is history everyone needs to learn. Please spend some time learning about this aspect of WWII

[@pexfmezccle]

Are you a Nazi-sympathizer?

[@C.bullet]

@@pexfmezccle are you an idiot?

[@Alina190995]

David Christensen between Russia and Germany???? It was USSR!! Not just Russia

[@AWtify]

@@notyourdad361 Europeans are born with the idea that Russia is always winter. Do you think that Napoleon and Hitler were complete idiots and did not know anything about the winter? The reality is that they, based on their previous experience, planned to end the war long before the Russian winter. They did not know only that the Russians would be desperate to resist, unlike the Europeans. And will come in the answer, in the capital aggressor.

[@АнтонМамонтов-ц5о]

@@notyourdad361 а ты не думал что советские солдаты тоже испытывали дискомфорт от непогоды ? не зима выиграла войну, а самоотверженность и подвиг наших предков

[@mansheiky3416]

Why they don’t show us that in school

[@Xanthas998]

School here in the US does not seem interested in teaching kids to understand history, just teaching the parts that involve our country.

[@NHeart-wc3wr]

Man Sheiky I’m learning about this in US history right now

[@dejanhaskovic5204]

@Gregory Roberts Knowing how the advance on soviet union was executed what which divisions attacked where has nothing to do with "Social Left Indoctrination center". How is it knowing that gonna help you anyway? The reason it's not taught in such detail is because it has little to do with US.

[@kinge.3868]

Propaganda

[@mahmoud-quran]

Swords Chant watch your mouth and go educate yourself

[@Geniuserw10]

Germans: killed 3M Soviets. Soviets: Just summon 4M men.

[@sakanig]

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[@con-hb6ig]

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[@strawberry_milk6-q]

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[@TheByrd]

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[@itzyourboyzero6925]

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[@salokin3087]

The complexity and detail is astounding! Where can I donate? We need a whole series!

[@alexandersedykh9280]

Yes, so simple idea. But realized at first.

[@merguez6162]

Salokin agree!!

[@bclmax]

read a book

[@frjoethesecond]

He has a Patreon. You can see the next part of this video there.

[@jimbeam456]

good idea! I also, when see good product, then want to donate for development support (and just to be thankful for :-) )

[@Eastory]

If you don't want to wait for 1942 video to be finished, you can check out battlegifs on my Pateron page: www.patreon.com/Eastory

[@panosnova9848]

Great work man. That's the most clean video of the eastern front! Also, how far away is the 1942 video?

[@Eastory]

Thanks! I have animated it until September of 1942. I am trying to do a month in two days.

[@panosnova9848]

That's awesome! I can't wait

[@ivaqueen2352]

are you want to do videos in the weatren front and battels of erwin rommel in desert and german invasions

[@JensPetter95]

1942 time travel? 8:45

[@DaniellaVasquez-m7o]

This is definitely the most detailed animated map of the Eastern front I have ever seen, I always felt difficult to picture how the battlefront have shift from places to places, but with this kind of visualized map, this will have help us to understand the situation of all the units they were facing over there. Brilliant work.

[@iliayasny]

My grand grandma left her two daughters and conscripted to the volunteer regimen as a nurse. On March 5, 1942 she carried away from the battlefield 15 wounded soldiers, then got wounded herself in the belly. When they tried to bandage her, she said: 'Help those who will live, you won't save me'. She died in a hospital on March 8. We always remember her, and the war should never happen again

[@samovarmaker9673]

Makes me want to play some Hearts of Iron 4

[@samovarmaker9673]

+Joseph Stalin Well I'm Russian, so I must be a bot

[@samovarmaker9673]

+Joseph Stalin на то я и самовар

[@fulcrum2951]

So no gulag?

[@Smoozable]

Samovar maker The ai in the 1.5.3 patch is rediculous it leaves the Frontline undefended and concentrate its forces in major victory points only which makes it very easy to encircle hundreds of divisions in one city even without the use of tanks Hardly any challenge, I hope they fix it in the next patch

[@ttbrv5036]

Smoozable but tanks are too quick

[@1MuchButteR1]

I smell good content.

[@doce7606]

Think deeper. Probably created in an undisclosed location to foment division between ex-WW II allies and demonstrate a biased view of who stopped the reich. peace.

[@theodorflorinro]

This is mind-blowing. Why nobody even had an idea like this before? A whole new perspective to WW2.

[@sttalex]

It is not "new perspective", it is real history. USSR has trashed 95% of Wehrmacht...

[@jakemitchell7786]

@G E T R E K T 905 *25%

[@tehdreamer]

@G E T R E K T 905 lol a lot of the machinery USA and UK sent was broken and unusable in Russia, it had to be heavily modified. USA was just watching Nazis steamrolling the commies. They used Hitler. Too bad for them Russian people didn't want to be the sacrificial sheep in this demonic anti Russian conquest. Marksism was forced on Russia with Western help.

[@patrolgaming4094]

@@tehdreamer President of USA, Roosevelt was highly pro-soviet. He had Soviet agents as advisors and during war he allowed Stalin to press his claims over eastern Europe. land-lease gave very needed supplies. Some Soviet divisions hadn't rifles and had to fight with some farm tools

[@ga_rus8037]

@@patrolgaming4094

[@theironchannel2396]

@Eastory This content is amazing, having accurate troop movements in real time across such a large front is a difficult task, you did a great job.

[@eliasziad7864]

Your profile pic is Yemen flag not german.

[@theironchannel2396]

@@eliasziad7864 I am aware the flag is upsidedown

[@michaelkloeckner6353]

My Dad who just passed away Fed 10 2020 fought on the Russia front on the German side in 1941. He was 21 years old. Later in the war he fought in Affrica. He became a POW in the US until 1945. We came to the US in 1954 I was 2 years old. American is my home I served in the U.S. Navy from 1973 to 1976. MCB 10 Seabees

[@michaelkloeckner6353]

@Alex C So much to know about what our family members had to do back then.

[@michaelkloeckner6353]

@Alex C my Dad told me He was never involved at the holocaust camps but do not tell anyone he was a German soldier until he passed away. He just passed away Feb 10 2020 at the age of 99. He was a awesome Father and friend

[@theodoreavison1927]

One of my great grandads was on the soviet side, he manages to survive the war but was subsequently purged.

[@thundersnowproductions4705]

respect

[@Коллем]

@Alex C My grandfather was killed in Kiev, while protecting his native land

[@Eastory]

I'd like to continue with 1942, but I don't know where to find the best sources. Could you suggest some sources that cover the overall strategic situation of the 1942 Eastern front (preferably located online)?

[@steps1230]

David Glantz's "When Titans Clashed" is an amazing overview of the entire war, hes a free PDF of the book: zodml.org/sites/default/files/%5BDavid_M._Glantz%2C_Jonathan_M._House%5D_When_Titans_C_0.pdf

[@TheKommandanteur]

Check out Pamyat Naroda . ru It's an Russian archival website. Amongst other things it has quite helpful maps of major operations superimposed over google maps, containing movements, major formations and the ability to change the dates as the offensive progresses - although the dates are spotty, some may have day by day, others a week or so. It's unfortunately almost all in cyrillic, so bring your language dictionary. I was unaware of your work until now. I shall follow with great interest. Such a tremendous task you have taken on.

[@imaturtle9329]

:)

[@Mega4est]

You can use this interactive online map english.pobediteli.ru/ . It actually has all frontline movement from 1941 to 1945, is in English and shows all major events happened at the time.

[@Gusararr]

You can watch documentary series called "Soviet storm: WW2 in the east". You can find all of the episodes on the KZbin.

[@horseradish4046]

This is a really cool video, but it's crucial to remember that this wasn't just an empty battlefield like most of the Pacific Theater in WW2 with the ocean. Every time that red line moved, those were entire villages, towns, cities, millions of ordinary people that were mercilessly slaughtered in the crossfire, bombardment, and brutal occupation. It becomes totally different when you remember when grandparents were telling you about how they had the street where they lived bombed, the death they saw, and then basically had to starve for 2 years because the Germans cut off Soviet supply lines because of these military maneuvers. War is hell.

[@robertsutphen2333]

Horse Radish , very well said....most of us have no concept of what happened.....to fully understand is to fully appreciate what they went through!

[@hwg5039]

Empty battlefield in Pacific??? Do you know how many people were killed by the Japanese in China， Korea and Southeast Asia?

[@horseradish4046]

@@hwg5039 Pacific ocean is mostly empty, the war in Asia is a different battlefield, I should've made the distinction. and yes, Japanese atrocities upon the Chinese and others were very similar in brutality

[@brig.gen.georgiiisserson7226]

Horse Radish it was worse in brutality

[@marksmithcollins]

@@horseradish4046 At least they were doing 'european style' war despite of all that level of cruelty. Japanese did 'intellectual savage' things in Asia. It was way beyond human imaginations to their colonies, and even to their soldiers.

[@stian6390]

I've probably watched this over 20 times by now, it's just so interesting. Very good job

[@stian6390]

I probably watched it 100 times by now 🤣

[@NiceGriffin]

Even tho I have watched this video many times, I can't believe how the Soviets managed to win the war

[@miiky3864]

Ikr

[@dablb]

It was the total mobilization after 1941. Stalin had underestimated the threat of the Germans and only when the Germans advanced so far and quickly the Soviet Union changed to total mobilization and war industry

[@julienweiss9363]

Note that most of the advances you see in this video were made by a few panzer divisions. You will notice that the infantry was always behind during the offensives, since it lacked motorized forces. Meaning the brunt of the fighting was suffered by these few units of panzer troops, that were far from Germany and which supply lines were severely strained. During Barbarossa, the German crushed the soviet forces, yes. But their offensive capabilities were pretty much gone by the time the soviet themselves were starting to learn their lessons and were beginning to coordinate their operations.

[@Maperator]

But at what cost?

[@ian-cf2oz]

Because of USA invaded , Germany will win

[@charliehoward9278]

brilliant keep it up man !

[@BeelzebulKlendathu]

8:26 Let's pause it right there and think of the fact Soviets had 1,2 milion man versus 1,6 million of Army Group Center in the beginning of Moscow counteroffensive. But they don't tell you about it. You don't have to know about it. All you have to know is them Russkies outnumbered splendid Wehrmacht "10 to 1" and won the war becouse of it.

[@unfluencedarea]

Offensives usually only succeed when they outnumber the defender 2:1 and military theory advises a ratio of 3:1 for a succesful attack. And take another look at Soviet reinforcements over the course of the next few months. I'll catch you again eh.

[@Kamfrenchie]

The reason this myth is so prevalent ismostly due to cold war: The US recycled german generals to learn how the soviet fought, and the german generals sold them the usual myth: "the honourable whermarcht fighting with skills against overwheming numbers of stupid Russians, while hitler was making all the bad decisions" . That, plus the natural desire to paint your new enemy in a bad light, and the horrible movie "enemy at the gate"... A much more realistic outlook is that the soviet army at the start was severely crippled due to the purge, and sometimes lack of some equipment. They also lost a lot of regular soldiers in the opening stage of the war, and had to rely on reserve, and mobilizing citizens. But they improved steadily over the war, pretty much curbstomping Germans from 1944 onward.1943 had big but costly successes, as Stavka was overly ambitious in some place, which let the germans do the "backhand blow"

[@Mentol_]

unfluencedarea A 3 to 1 ratio is required in the direction of the main strike, and not throughout the entire front. This is achieved due to the reduction of forces in secondary sectors of the front. I like history and things like that The data on the number of armies on the east front that the TIK shows are not entirely correct. They do not include Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine personnel for Germany. For the first time, the Red Army gained numerical superiority at a strategic level as 2 to 1 only in the second half of 1944.

[@unfluencedarea]

@@Mentol_ True enough, then the Soviets and Germans outnumbered each other "10" to 1 in a few instances (Vistula-Oder offensive comes to mind) and OP's comment is full of shit.

[@nstice1]

Reagan collapses the Soviet Union 35 years later!!!! He finished the job! Got those Ruskies good!

[@iamthebestofall1000]

Just mind boggling how the germans at the beginning of the operation just so casually and swiftly captured not hundreds, not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of soldiers. More than half a million troops captured in one massive thrust across this insane battle line is crazy. Looking at it on a map is one thing but to scale it up to real life shows just how massive this entire battle for Russia was. I heard there is a memorial in Moscow, that is made of tank traps showing how terrifyingly close Germany was to the city itself. Really shows just how powerful the German army truly was

[@NickVenture1]

Stalin hated the captured soviet army soldiers. Including his PoW son. He wanted them all dead instead of surrendered. When his son died by jumping on an electric camp fence Stalin commented that at least he did something good.

[@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю]

This shows mainly the insignificance of the Russian army.

[@AlexPovolotsky]

@@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю Red Army, not Russian. Maybe French army performed better? Or British? Or Polish?

[@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю]

@@AlexPovolotsky if France and Poland had the same infinite number of soldiers and territories as the USSR, their result would be much better than the USSR.

[@F.R.E.D.D2986]

@@ВладиславВладислав-и4ю ._. No, they would've have collapsed. They wouldn't be willing to throw millions at a front to die

[@CoconutandFamily]

My Grandpa fought in the WWII, he was 18 when the war started, finishing a military college in the Soviet Union. He's gone through the war with one injury and escaped from a nazi concentration camp. He has gone all the way to Berlin, where he met my Grandma, who was taken from Crimea to work in nazi Germany as a slave.

[@Ansar-ne5er]

I thought all soviet people who worked in Germany (even forced to) were shot by NKVD or send to gulag

[@tarantino8840]

Ansar83500 Not everyone

[@CoconutandFamily]

@@Ansar-ne5er The did not execute or imprison everyone. But, from what I heard, all those who was in Germany as slaves or was in a concentration camp, struggled getting certain Communist Party or Military jobs as they were considered a security risk.

[@ЕгорСтрельцов-м4ч]

@@Ansar-ne5er Those who have been in captivity passed through the "quarantine". This is far from a prison. Just as long as they checked for possible treachery, they certainly didn't trust. If the fact of treachery was not confirmed them then released as a rule without any consequences. But if they has found evidence of betrayal, then of course the prison and maybe the highest measure (shot). It all depended on the circumstances. And by the way, the GULAG is an organization for the management of prisons(camps) - the Main (Glavnoe) Directorate (Upravlenie) of Camps (LAGerey). By itself, the GULAG was never a prison. I apologize for my English. (Google Translate).

[@Ansar-ne5er]

@@ЕгорСтрельцов-м4ч Yes I know Gulag was the structure and not a camp/prison by itsel, but it became a generic term in the west to designate soviet "labor camp". Anyway the precision is welcome, gulag term is vastly used in inappropriate way indeed. Thanks for your explanation above.

[@emmanuelknight8974]

The 48th and 14th Panzer Divison sneaking across the dnieper river be like imma end 750,000 careers

[@blitzcrieg101]

Ba ha ha!

[@LoffysDomain]

Very good. Voice, music (style and volume), graphics and narrative. 11/10.

[@opzspice4780]

Loffy he stole it from a game

[@thecakeisalie6392]

@@opzspice4780 Stole? He did not stole anything, the correct word is take.

[@sinaonur2658]

@@thecakeisalie6392 took* :P

[@thecakeisalie6392]

@@sinaonur2658 Well I was referring to the infinitive form (to take) but it's alright

[@deik4440]

Correction: 100000000/10

[@lvcivssylvvs8796]

Germany in November 1941: We're gonna make it!... Wait, why do I hear boss music? *Siberian reinforcements arrive*

[@sofjdhddjd8627]

Ridiculous 🤣 Russia wouldn't have stand a chance against Germany...if Germany would have only fought against the Russians.

[@purplesword5536]

Never ceases to amaze me the sheer number of Soviet POWs the Germans took in the 1st yr alone..how could an army & nation absorb such losses & continue to fight..I know winter came just in time & pearl harbor got the USA in the war but my god from june22 to December 6th the Russians just bleed whole army groups...

[@criztu]

USSR was an empire. Most of those POWs were from the enslaved nations - Poles, Romanians, Fins, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Kazakhs, Azers, Georgians, Turkmens, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Chechens, Armenians and so on. The territory conquered by the Germans from USSR, was essentially non-Russian. Think of this: *Stalin was Georgian* Think of this: *Lenin was Jewish*

[@tomcypher3864]

criztu wonder, how many troops from "enslaved" nations are in US army. Half of those nations you listed fought against Russia

[@criztu]

The Soviet Union had occupied the eastern part of Poland, eastern part of Romania, eastern part of Finland. While the German Reich occupied what remained of Romania, Poland, and Finland. The Poles, Romanians, Fins, under the Soviet masters, were sent to fight the Poles, Romanians, Fins, under the German masters. to understand this in American terms, the Poles, Romanians, Fins, were the equivalent of the Natives of the American Continent. imagine the US making an army of Cherokees, Shawnees, Iroquois, and having them defend against the English, lets say in 1776. imagine the outcome.

[@MonteMcWilliams]

Google Tecumseh

[@criztu]

+Monte Let me put it another way: Russia's occupation of Eastern Europe was like Germany's occupation of France, Belgium, Netherlands, or like the English occupation of Scotland and Ireland. To call the French, Belgians, Dutch in the lands occupied by Germany, as "German nation" is ignorant. So is calling the Poles, Romanians, Fins, Estonians, Latvians, etc. in the lands occupied by the Soviet Union as "Russian nation", ignorant. Tecumseh is the equivalent of the French Resistance, or Eastern European Partisans. The war between the German Reich and the USSR was fought mostly on lands inhabited by Poles, Romanians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Fins, and so on. Most of the dead in the Soviet Army were Poles, Romanians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Fins, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Uzbeks, Chechens, etc. forcefully conscripted. To understand that Ukrainians are not Russians, google 'Holodomor' or Stepan Bandera

[@andraslibal]

The German logistics officers have said it before the invasion: they can go in 800 km after that they need to stop and the supplies will never catch up and they will only have a stop and go campaign afterwards. Which is what happened. Also Germany never got more out of the Soviet Union in terms of raw materials, goods etc with war than what they were already getting in peacetime.

[@lillyie]

the Soviet burned down resources so that the Germans can never live off the land

[@andraslibal]

@@lillyie does not matter ... the German logistics officers said they can only supply to 800 km. That is exactly what happened. You can't reload your guns or refuel your tanks off the land.

[@andraslibal]

@robgvm they were at the end of their logistics capabilities. Germany did not have enough trucks to move things and they over-used the few they had, these broke down on the bad Russian roads. They had to rebuild the entire rail network because the Russian gauge was different. There are no rivers running East-West so shipping was limited to the Baltic at best. Distances inside Russia are immense and they were moving from west to east - from better to worse and worse roads. The mud was really just the last nail in the coffin. The Germans never thought about wide tracks, tracked supply vehicles (Raupenschleppers) etc before the experience of Russia. They were also running slowly out of fuel. They kept losing their tanks, trucks, airplanes, guns ... the last push on Moscow was done by an almost entirely infantry army, they were so severely depleted of everything they needed to keep going. It never got better, after that they could only replace losses while the Russians steadily built up to overwhelming numbers in tanks, guns, ammo, fuel (Land Lease helped a lot about 25% or more) and even in number of troops towards the end, even with very unfavorable kill ratios.

@syc 297 Do not forget that part of the Nazi theory was the Jewish Bolshevik Russian existential threat to Germany. Hitler spoke of it often in his speeches.

[@andraslibal]

@syc 297 that is not correct you can look at the way it unfolded Hitler did want a Lebensraum in the east eventually but he gave up on that idea after the Molotov-Ribbentrop accords. We can see this from German military production in 1940, it was aimed mostly at the air and the sea and not on the land forces. Indeed Hitler wanted to conclude the war with Britain and was not gearing up for a massive land war with the Soviets. That only changed in 1940 November when the Soviets were demanding bases in Bulgaria and that is the moment when the talks broke down and the Germans started planning Barbarossa. That was the crucial moment of the war. At that point it was still possible to avoid a German-Russian war had Stalin demanded less. Hitler should have also been more flexible at that point because the Soviets later tried to re-start the negotiations, unsuccessfully.

[@АлексейГусев-ъ6щ]

У меня там прадед погиб. 33 года ему было. Мне сейчас 40.Его дети, моя бабушка и ее брат до сих пор живы . Бабушке 89 ее брату 79. Спасибо за то что живем дед Ефим.

[@dispuncho]

Спасибо дядя Лёша,что СССР просрали без единого выстрела.

[@dimaovdienko1392]

​@@dispuncho Всем тоталитарным помойкам приходит конец ;с

[@Lexa888888]

Pavlo Pelmenov Задрали вы уже со своим ссср, развалился и отлично!👍

[@ГеоргийБыкадоров]

@@Адмирал-у4п ,ты то что знаешь о СССР,уверен,только репрессии

[@carl-os4603]

@@ГеоргийБыкадоров он просто такая же жертва антисоветской пропаганды)))

[@philiproe1661]

I gotta say. As an American, thank you for all your efforts put into this series. We cover here are sadly ignorant of the role that the Soviets played in defeating the Nazis. Hopefully your videos will educate people like me more.

[@knightwatchman]

Did you know the Russians lost close to 27 million people (combined military and civilian killed) in WW 2? In 1940 their population was 194 million. That's almost 14% of their entire population killed.

[@philiproe1661]

@@knightwatchman Yeah. But their sacrifice was not in vain. A madman was stopped in his tracks thanks to their sacrifice.

[@gerardnadrowski5672]

And no madman will ever....no wait

[@oztk5673]

@@philiproe1661 the mad men were Chruchill,Stalin and Roosevelt

[@philiproe1661]

@@oztk5673 Obvious troll

[@sillypuppy5940]

This is brilliant. I've read so many books about the subject and seen maps of the front, but this brings it to life.

[@boborson5536]

Completely agreed

[@kameradschen]

Take a sip every encirclement

[@slenderman27490]

Now I'm drunk! :)

[@fulcrum2951]

Hoi4 standard gameplay under a smart player

[@WWSzar]

fulcrum 29 Smart player? Abusing the horrendous AI barely requires intelligence.

[@fulcrum2951]

The bastard ai overrun my fockin defense line full of well equipped units in a few days!

[@souv1aki]

Take a sip of vodka, seems like stalin played this game

[@AtomicElectronCo]

Wow. Such a good video man. Years of classroom study compressed into exciting minutes!

[@kjragg1099]

I always find myself coming back to this video because it always leaves me in awe just much the Red Army was steamrolled in the opening months of Barbarossa.

[@fyodorkojevin5756]

It was a catastrophe. And it is damn miracle that our ancestors managed to stop steamroller that was German army.

[@undeadnightorc]

Yeah, the immense size of the front is just mind boggling. I doubt we will ever see anything like it again.

[@kjragg1099]

@@undeadnightorc from north to south it’s the biggest front in the entire history of war I believe.

[@MXB2001]

Glorious isn't it?

[@ddm_gamer]

Stalingrad alone took more lives than what the americans lost on the entire western front

[@smartypants4998]

love this channel, you could become huge mate. been here since your first reddit post

[@SNOUPS4]

After having watched those videos a dozen of times, I had never noticed how the city names change from red colour to dark colour: this detail is a very nice touch! Thanks for having made such perfect videos!

[@larsonpartisan2855]

*When De Gaulle visited Stalingrad in 1944 , he said* : "What a magnificent nation", which his interpreter translated, to the delight of his Soviet hosts. The interpreter then told De Gaulle of their appreciation, to which De Gaulle reportedly replied along the lines that he was actually referring to the *Germans,* and their achievement in having penetrated so far. According to the interpreter's account, he did not translate De Gaulle's explanation, thereby maintaining good relations with his hosts.

[@user_____M]

That sounds exactly like one of those "That's what she said." stories, still fun to share it with us of course.

[@larsonpartisan2855]

@@user_____M Found in Alexander Werths, Russia at War 1941-1945, E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc, New York, 1964; p. 930. Also worth mentioning that Werth was a Russian Born Journalist who Himself was an eyewitness to the shattering historical drama he vividly records In his book. Werth offers an intensely detailed chronicle of the events that exceeded in savagery and hatred any other on Russian soil. He was definetly not a friend of the Germans , so we can be pretty sure that this comment is real.

[@larsonpartisan2855]

@erni muja De Gaulle was one of the few French Generals who understood the modern Warfare Germany had awakened. He was probably the only one who could have saved France from Germanys Lighting War in 1940. Churchill and Eisenhower with his death camps were objectively seen war Criminals like Hitler and Stalin. I dont think De Gaulle had to feel bad for not being liked by War Criminals.

[@super_heavy_battleship4205]

erni murja Yes French tanks where superior in raw firepower and armour. But there was one critical thing they failed at, and that was that the french tanks communicated with flags while the germans did it with radios. yeah. The other big mistake was how they used their tanks. They spread them out alongside the entire line thinly instead of concentrating them in a small area and pushing through like Guderian said. So no they did not know alot about WW2s most important ground warfare part.

[@ultru3525]

@erni muja They kind went with both though, like yeah they gave up early, but once the USSR got invaded, French communists started organising a huge resistance movement.

[@NickVenture1]

These days the new front line is again much closer to Moscow and Volgograd than it used to be in 1941. Will be good to create the same interactive maps you do about the invasion of the USSR for the updated situation since 1989.

[@zombiestory6353]

Its hard when your front line cant be in Poland anymore.

[@NickVenture1]

@@zombiestory6353 Please explain a bit more. Right now the military border created by the Western Alliance is looking more advanced towards Russian heartlands than the invasion start line in 1941. Am I wrong?

[@Kardamitiano]

@@NickVenture1 Warfare changed, though. Everything can happen if another war like this breaks out.

[@ChaosEIC]

@@NickVenture1 There is no military border, there just is a border. Like every country has some.

[@NickVenture1]

@@ChaosEIC There are state borders with border guards and military units to watch them. Also exist many units to intervene in a war if necessary. There is NATO and many formations "at the borders" around Russia. Even in space have been established borders "to not cross" with military might. Ukraine's eastern border may be considered Russia's present day "Western Front Line". Looking at all the other borders of that kind my assumption is that "the military border" moved again much closer to Moscow than it was in 1941. This is how must be understood my initial comment about the borders ("Front line") of the military positions surrounding the USSR in June 1941.

[@kemalsercanilhan7414]

Please contunie brilant plan to win ww2

[@VineFynn]

kemal sercan ilhan Plan to start a land war in asia when you're running out of oil and have no logistical doctrine.. brilliant plan indeed

[@cnra1948]

he is talking about the video series called "brilliant plan to win ww2"

[@ultramet]

I learned more about the Eastern European Front in WWII from this one video than I did in all of high school and college. Wow, this was so amazingly good.

[@TheImperatorKnight]

Pretty good video!

[@DanishDutchDude]

TIK ah I see I've found you away from your channel this time it seems!

[@shocken90]

Now if you could only create a 10 hour battlestorm documentary about the entire barbarossa campaign my life would be complete lol

[@anonymnidyr6637]

TIK the legend himself

[@Native_love]

That was AWESOME! TIK, love your videos too! The animations made the Eastern front easier to understand!

[@maltelabrenz3965]

@@shocken90 10 hours ? more like a year in his insane good style

[@jc_user]

6:28 Unbelievable, thats 665.000 POW's.. When you count the total numbers of 1941, they're higher than Stalingrad losses.

[@vqlcano1698]

That's not even close to Stalingrad. Stalingrad had 1.1 million Soviet casualties.

[@ThePRCommander]

@@vqlcano1698 Plus, The battle at Rzhev, with a minimum of 1.3 / 1.5 and possible 2 millions red army soldiers lost, contributed in the victory at Stalingrad.

[@comradejeb2009]

People get a lot of misconceptions about the eastern front, they say that there were endless soviet troops when the fact is that the Germans outnumbered and outgunned the red army at the start of the war and in fact most soviet losses where in 1941 and 42 however in 1944-45 the soviet:axis K:D ratio was the even.

[@griggsgibs3933]

Not necessarily, the Soviets still suffered higher losses in every battle up until the Oder Offensive. Take for instance the Battle of Dnieper which was immediately after the loss at Kursk for the Germans, or the Battle of Kiev. The only times that the German casualties outnumbered the Soviets was around 1945 during the Oder Offensives into Germany

[@anonymnidyr6637]

Griggs Gibs: please google Jassy-kisniev offensive and Lvov-sandomierz offensive.

[@anonymnidyr6637]

popa andrei: good point, thats true. But Romania switched side after the initial success of the offensive. Correct me if I am wrong.

[@anonymnidyr6637]

popa andrei, Okay, thats not my conclusion after reading on the offensive. The Soviets surrounded the 6th army on the 23 of august, the same day Romania switched side, as I see it, this was because of the success of the offensive. However, I understand what you’re saying. Thanks.

[@gogaonzhezhora8640]

Griggs Gibs suffering higher losses during offensive ops is the norm. The losses soviet troops suffered in 1941-1942 were mainly due to huge encirclement batles and millions who died as POWs as a result.

[@Peter-ox7wh]

I can't believe the red army capacity of losing hundreds of thousands of troops and be able to rebuild that loses(kiev,minsk,smolensk....)

[@Schwertdaemon]

Peter Rose if you send one armed soldier and fife to seven men unarmed only carrying some magszines waiting for the death of their armed comrads, you will achive that goal🤣🤣🤣. Emtying all jails will help too.

[@mikhailbelov9968]

@@Schwertdaemon And still our fathers and grandfathers won and crushed nazis. Their spilt blood conquered the victory in this horrific war, no one else spilt that much to save their home and homes of others. May be it was possible to achieve the same result the other way in other circumstances, but there's no way for us to know that for sure. The reality of moment takes over and dictates the logic of events almost in every case. Looking back at these events from a perspective of a modern man living a relatively peaceful life, it's easy for us to insightfully point at the alternative scenarios. But what happened, happened. Horrific war and millions dead. Our ancestors made nearly impossible victory possible. My point is that there's much more for us in this victory to be proud of, rather than being ashamed. I believe that we should be grateful. We don't deserve to be judges here - we weren't there at the time. We cannot be sure what decisions we would've made given the exact same circumstances. After all, we're all here, complaining and guilting people of the past for their decisions and mistakes, though these people and their mistakes altogether - are the very reason we're alive and well today, to begin with. Things can and often should turn out differently, but you need to be there at the moment to truly live it and understand the availability of the options presented to you.

[@c.4374]

@@Schwertdaemon that is lie.

[@vinny5638]

@@mikhailbelov9968 Respect to your ancestors.

[@meaninglesscog]

When you are also staffing your armies with women it makes it easier.

[@martinlaird4738]

This video is absolutely unbelievable! Outstanding content sir. Never before has someone create such a comprehensive and dynamic depiction of the eastern front. You have to wonder how the Germans didn’t beat the Russians when you see how many POWs they took.

[@criztu]

The territory occupied by Germany within the Soviet Union, was inhabited by Poles, Romanians, Ukrainians, Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, and so on, lands occupied by the Soviet Union. Merely 50% of the population of the Soviet Union, was of Russian ethnicity, officially. In practice, those who died in the army of the Soviet Union, were forced conscripts from the nations enslaved by the Soviet Union - Poles, Romanians, Fins, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Turkmens, Chechens, Uzbeks, Tadjiks, Georgians, Azers, Kyrgyzes, and so on. That's like the Ottomans using the enslaved Janissaries to fight for them, or the English using the enslaved Indians and Africans to fight for them.

[@criztu]

+Jonny B go see a map of Russia. Russia begins at Smolensk. All the lands up to Smolensk were inhabited by Poles, Romanians, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians The Soviet Union was not a nation state, but an Empire that enslaved nations, including the Russian nation. But to consider the 145 million non-Russians in the Soviet Union as Russians, is ridiculously ignorant. just go to wikipedia and read the Demographics of the Soviet Union - officially the Russians were 50% of the population - which was 290 millions.

[@billmcfadden4791]

the difference was numbers. japan agreement allowed russia to shift forces from east including t34 tanks. Germany was not prepared to deal with winter because hitler was a fool. Russia was weakened by stalin purged good generals but had to replace them with better generals after the initial debacle. hitler and stalin initially thought war would start in 1942 but germany moved early to catch russian armies redeploy east to protect the new borders.

[@limon16025]

The german army was unable to defeat the soviet one. Mainly because of bad logistics, lack of supplies and stupid decisions. Germany, believe it or not, didn't have the economic potential to run an army that large, even less a mechanized one

[@danvanmih]

Приятно знать что кто то интересуется восточным фронтом. Спс за качественный контент, желаю продвижения вашему каналу.

[@povilas007]

How can someone not be interested in Easter front when 80% of German army was busy fighting in the East :) At the end of the day, it was fighting in the East that decided the fate of the war.

[@danvanmih]

@@povilas007 Ok, its true

[@hanzzimmer1132]

I'm am American and I LOVE learning about the Eastern front. The scale is absolutely mind blowing

[@danvanmih]

@@hanzzimmer1132 Thenk you for it!!! Thank you also for answering :)

[@nzt-4866]

@@povilas007 Спасибо

[@enzopadovan1223]

Y'know, if someone ever asked me what KZbin videos terrify me the most, I wouldn't pick random horror movie trailers or any other video featuring a lame CGI creepypasta-inspired monster. I'd honestly say this series is one of the most scary on this website, mainly because unlike the other type of production I mentioned above, this shit is as real as we are. WW2 wasn't just a regular war. It was hell on earth. On the Eastern Front, there was no place for mercy. If you were a Soviet, The Germans saw you as an inferior race who had to be eradicated from the face of earth. If you were a German, the Soviets saw you as the butcher who invaded their country and slaughtered thousands of your comrades. There was only starvation, hatred, brutality, rape and sadism. All of humanity's deepest sins were concentrated in this massive frontline, where any engagement could result in the death of hundreds of your brothers in arms. All of these poor souls, regardless of their nationality or engagement, went through what none of us could endure, on a fucking daily basis, for 4 horrible years. When I see this video, I want to salute Eastory for their great work, but I also try to imagine myself in the boots of one of those young lad, taken at the gates of Moscow, only to become the witness and the victim of mankind's most tragic achievements. And it sends chills down my spine. Fuck horror movies. Fuck any paranormal being that can supposedly kill you in your own sleep. People should watch these videos, learn about history and understand it, in order to understand that the worst hell we can witness is the one created by our own evolved brains, so that we never have to force such horrible conflicts upon our own species again. WW2 wasn't just a tragedy, it was a warning to mankind; next time, we will obliterate ourselves. By all the gods, my fellow humans, I beg you to never let that possibility become the truth. For once, let's learn about our mistakes from the past, or sooner or later, we will have to pay the price of all these mistakes. A price that we just can't afford, by any means.

[@nitishkumarjurel241]

@@specimen343 bruh that's too far fetched

[@borisfeigin9205]

@enzo This!

[@TechShowdown]

Can't wait for the next one, this is seriously good stuff, keep it up dude!

[@svxnger]

Hitler: its 1942 baby Stalin: Pulls out an UNO reverse card

[@Braycali]

Wrong year. That’s 1943

[@mizcaesar1804]

@InteractiveHistory don't advertise your videos on someone else's channel

[@svxnger]

@G E T R E K T 905 getting mad about someones joke in youtube comments to the point you have to insult them , how old are you? 5? or 6?

[@Chocolatnave123]

So its reversed to 2491? I dont think you know how this works

[@svxnger]

@@Chocolatnave123 The joke ---- (you) ----> Battle of Stalingrad Date 23 August 1942 - 2 February 1943 Location Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Volgograd, Russia) Result -Soviet victory -Destruction of the German 6th Army Territorial changes -Expulsion of the Axis from the Caucasus, reversing their gains from the 1942 Summer Campaign

[@mikejin1842]

HITLER: my troops are only less than 30km from Moscow NAPOLEON: really? I was in Moscow city itself for 2 months. you are 300,000 inches short. but never mind

[@flameofazazel598]

Hitler incorporated more land into his Empire than Napoleon did

[@mark-o-man6603]

@@flameofazazel598 Lol, not really. Most of Hitler's territorial gains can't really be called "part of the empire". For example a huge part of France wasn't under German administration, Vichy France was an independent ally to Nazi Germany.

[@flameofazazel598]

@@mark-o-man6603 Yeah thats true

[@lamlol6003]

The winter: Such a fool.

[@drinkyourwater1039]

@Wehrmacht nazi deutschland Napoleon litteraly subjugated the entire continent, just like Hitler, differently from hitler, it subjugated Spain, Portugal, the entire Holy Roman Empire, Austria and Italy

[@imswanronson3558]

This series is you're magnum opus, it's so well done.

[@АндрейДехтяренко-б3о]

страшное время! Мой дед в том году Одессу защищал, потом его сильно ранили под Севостополем, вернулся домой в 1944, без руки, он единственный из моих дедов кто вернулся домой живым остальные все погибли. Один в Чехии, второй на Днестре в Молдавии, а третий попал в плен в 1942 под Харьковом и умер в плену. Вот такая история моих предков, дед мой только жаловался(который без руки вернулся) что на баяне играть не может))))

[@СоветскийСоюз-и7б]

@Андрей Апечкин может он имеет ввиду двух дедов и двух прадедов.

[@heavysmoke1124]

Да... очень страшно. Мой прадед умер от болевых ранений в Виннице в 1943 году. Сколько же советских семей потеряли Отцов, братьев и дедов во время ВОВ. Конечно же, роль женщин в войне тоже высока. Например, "ночные ведьмы", женщины - связистки, врачи и остальные. Надеюсь никогда новоая война не затронит Россию и остальных стран СНГ. Многие недоумки пишут, что "можем повторить". Такого повторения мне не хочется и терять родного старшего брата или отца и также близких друзей на новой войне тоже не хочу.

[@помещикНоздрев]

У меня из 4-х прадедов только один выжил в войне и дошел до Берлина ( сапером был ) , 2-е пропали без вести ,а один после обморожения в госпитале помер от воспаления легких. А бабушка такие страсти рассказывала, когда ее семья была на оккупированной тер-ии под Курском.

[@gambikules]

у меня 4 деда погибло, 1 остался и то наверное только из за того что ему тогда 4 года было

[@megamillionfreak]

Андрей Дехтяренко I send you much love. I am Serbian (also a veteran of 1990s Yugoslav wars) and I understood 100% what you wrote even though I had zero instruction in Russian language throughout my schooling and life (it was all English all the time). God bless Russia!

[@Roy-ol3qx]

That's crazy! I didn't know the Germans were already that close to Moscow.

[@ilikechocolate3741]

They almost captured it

[@oleggattor]

from some positions of the Germans to the Center of Moscow was only 23 km

[@hottoh9171]

@@oleggattor 30 km to the border of city*

[@EldenRingClipsAndCriticalHits]

@@ilikechocolate3741 Just finished reading a book by David Stahel that’s basically dedicated to debunking that fact. Only a handful of soldiers got anywhere close to Moscow (about 30km) and by that point they’d lost almost all their tanks and the men were freezing to death so the army had horrible morale. So they came nowhere close to capturing the city, just threw loads of men and resources away trying to get as close as possible essentially. Looks like it was a close affair superficially because of proximity but the Germans didn’t even attempt to cross the first of several extensive rings of barricades erected in and around the city. Those would have been brutal to get past.

[@DrJones20]

@@EldenRingClipsAndCriticalHits Closest is 15 km, not 30

[@jtgd]

“Huh. It’s already October… hopefully this winter isn’t bad” WORST WINTER IN A CENTURY

[@GaudialisCorvus]

I can't fathom the enormous amounts of men that were involved in this conflict. So many people; we're viewing just the soldiers alone but if we took civilians into account...it's crazy!

[@wildernessandme]

BustedIntuition then I wonder how many people do we have now if the wars didn't happen?

[@Grafomanokrasto]

USSR lost 27 000 000 people, or to be precise germans killed as much, 17kk of which were civilians. germans lost about 7kk of which about 2kk were civilians. Those numbers show a true hell and how insanely good Soviet people were, I can not comprehend how they didn't kill every single german, after what they endured, americans killed more german civilians than soviets, even though they never suffered an attack from them (they bombed Dresden to the ground killing 100k+ civilians)

[@4и1]

Excellent animation and very good map i like hos you display all the units. Subscribed waiting now for 1942 and my most interesting event the battle of Stalingrad

[@АлександрК-к5п]

Andi BeastMode, Да. В битве за Сталинград (ныне Волгоград) решалась судьба всего мира, всей войны. Важность этого сражения нельзя недооценивать. Привет из России ;-) Yes. The battle for Stalingrad (now Volgograd) decided the fate of the whole world, the whole war. The importance of this battle can not be underestimated. Greetings from Russia ;-)

[@4и1]

Although lots of people believe that Moscow was the turning point of the war i dont agree with that. Stalingrad the biggest slaughterhouse of WW2 were both the Germans and Soviets were sucrificed in unthinkable numbers cannot be underestimated. The drama and the misery that those soldiers were living in that inferno which was called Stalingrad knowing all of the that death was certain atracts my attention.

[@АлександрК-к5п]

Andi BeastMode, битва за Москву стала первой решительной победой СССР над Третьим Рейхом. Эта победа показала миру, что немецкую армию всё-таки возможно одолеть! Но несмотря на серьёзное поражение немцев под Москвой у них нашлись силы для наступления на Сталинград, целью которого было "отрезание" Кавказа от остальной территории СССР и захват самого Сталинграда, что являлся крупнейшим пунктом снабжения на реке Волге... Поэтому, если бы Гитлеру удалось взять Сталинград, то вероятнее всего моя страна проиграла бы во всей войне. О том, что творилось в 1942-1943 годах в Сталинграде, я слышал от ветеранов той ужасной войны. Они рассказывали, что город был буквально в руинах после немецких бомбардировок и что солдаты обеих сторон конфликта дрались за каждую улицу, за каждый дом... Знаете, в России имеется даже такое выражение: Германия завоевала Францию и Польшу за несколько недель, а в Сталинграде за столько же времени она перешла только с одной улицы на другую. Очень часто во время битвы за Сталинград люди дрались в рукопашную, используя ножи, штыки, приклады винтовок, сапёрные лопатки, кирпичи или другие подручные средства... Как представлю, то становится реально очень неприятно. Могу ещё сказать, что у меня оба прадеда воевали во Второй мировой... Один бился на Кавказе и дошёл до Польши, а другой бился на Украине и дошёл до Берлина. Впрочем, наверное, у всех жителей России, Украины, Белоруссии, Молдавии и других стран бывшего СССР имеются прадеды и деды, которые воевали в Великой Отечественной войне и ,кстати, некоторые из них до сих пор живы. Может вы знаете, что в России каждый год 9 мая во всех городах проводятся парады в честь победы в этой войне. История учит людей тому, что война - это всегда много жертв, крови, человеческих слёз и страданий. Так давайте же будем добры друг к другу. The battle for Moscow was the USSR's first decisive victory over the Third Reich. This victory showed the world that the German army could still be defeated! But despite the serious defeat of the Germans near Moscow, they had the strength to attack Stalingrad, whose goal was to "cut off" the Caucasus from the rest of the USSR and seize Stalingrad itself, which was the largest supply point on the Volga River ... Therefore, if Hitler managed to take Stalingrad, then most likely my country would lose in the whole war. About what was happening in 1942-1943 in Stalingrad, I heard from the veterans of that terrible war. They said that the city was literally in ruins after German bombardments and that soldiers of both sides of the conflict fought for every street, for every house ... You know, in Russia there is even such an expression: Germany conquered France and Poland in a few weeks, and in Stalingrad for the same amount of time it has passed only from one street to another. Very often during the Battle of Stalingrad, people fought in melee, using knives, bayonets, rifle butts, sapper blades, bricks or other improvised means ...As I imagine, it becomes really very unpleasant. I can also say that both my great-grandfathers fought in the Second World War ... One fought in the Caucasus and reached Poland, and another fought in Ukraine and reached Berlin. However, probably, all residents of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and other countries of the former USSR have great-grandfathers and grandfathers who fought in the Great Patriotic War and, by the way, some of them are still alive. Maybe you know that in Russia every year on May 9 in all cities parades are held in honor of the victory in this war. History teaches people that in the war there are always a lot of victims, blood, human tears and suffering. So let's be kind to each other.

[@safe-keeper1042]

I love the effort put into this.

[@Элескей]

In the first 2 weeks, Germany in the USSR lost *much more* soldiers than in 2 months in France. It became clear that there would be no easy walk.

[@prohishnik]

Спасибо что хоть не рассказываете о том, что генерал мороз победил! В действительности в московском противостоянии силы были численно равные и условия были одни для всех, ну а контрнаступление ркка вообще пришлось на самые низкие температуры 1941го. Спасибо что не искажаете действительность!

[@DelEbaUrmONIf]

Если бы не сталинские чистки генералов, то воевали бы более умело и не было бы 3 миллионов убитых и пленных в 1941 году. И вполне возможно выйграли бы войну уже в 43 или начале 44го года.

[@ikravchuk28]

@@DelEbaUrmONIf Было возможно восстание генералов а так же увеличился бы риск коллаборационизма со стороны противников советской власти. Чистки были необходимы. К сожалению,без перегибов не обошлось,стоит признать

[@ГосударьАмпираторАдольфПутлер]

Ну так мороз и победил, сам же и подтверждаешь. У немцев ни техника не была приспособлена, ни одежды зимней не было, ни снабжения нормального - танки и машины бросали из-за отсутствия топлива, а жратву приходилось отбирать у местных. Плюс они были вымотаны предыдущими месяцами боёв, подкреплений никаких не получали, а против них свежие одетые, снабжённые и накормленные армии большевиков. Какие уж тут "равные условия".

[@ГосударьАмпираторАдольфПутлер]

@@ikravchuk28 Сколько сралин не душил генералов, солдат (157 000 расстрелянных за годы войны только по приговорам трибуналов), простой народ, и всех несогласных, а "совецкая власть" сгнила и сдохла без всякой войны и без всяких "предателей". По причине своей лживости, тупости и нежизнеспособности.

[@ikravchuk28]

@@ГосударьАмпираторАдольфПутлер Не тебе,невежде,судить о сверхдержаве. Для начала выучи историю,разберись в причинах развала,а потом уже открывай свой рот. Стыдно.

[@accountfantoccio5608]

Loving the videos about the WWII eastern front, they're amazing. It's insane to see how close Germany came to capture Moscow.

[@rhalinekmouche2899]

The Germans was actually 20 Kilometers to Moscow, but winter just devistated them.

[@maxlive87]

@@rhalinekmouche2899 winter and no fresh troup 4German attack

[@maxjohnson8659]

they would have never made it through the urban combat most likely. it would have been the first stalingrad.

[@gameswithkobralo2520]

I love how the soviet union had encirclments of 500.00 Men and it did not change a shit in the russian formation. Other Allied countries would have immidiately surrendered after such an big encirclement

[@thefirstkingdogo1126]

Losses 0.5 million men* Doenst even desturbe the linr

[@TESkyrimizer]

1:30 not only was combat readiness an issue (many units were at peacetime strength) but many tanks were early models of light tanks with thin armor and light guns. They could neither protect against German medium tanks nor pierce their armor, making them effectively coffins-on-wheels whenever they confronted German armored units.

[@apoc3037]

7:54 I love the way he says „the German armour had finally returned“ epic stuff

[@a_noob559]

I've always wondered how animated frontlines like this are made. Is there some kind of engine used or is all this done manually?

[@competifod6110]

skillshare (no copyright infringement please)

[@bobgatewood5277]

@Competifod thanks for your non-answer

[@galaxy_noas1181]

Same question here.

[@KlezHistory]

Adobe after effects, Create a shape from pen tool. Add keyframe to the line/strokes and start moving them like frame animation.

[@hart2018]

If you haven't seen it yet, he just released a tutorial in his 400k sub special.

[@Victor-lc3pw]

From the village of my grandmother 55 men came to the war and only 3 returned back.

[@Luckyluckyverylucky]

are u russian?

[@Олег-з2в7н]

@@Luckyluckyverylucky он русский, как и я

[@howardmaryon]

It is a sobering thought that in WWII, or as the Russians say, “The Great Patriotic War”, the Soviet Army lost more men and women than all of the other armies that took part in the war, added together. Yes all of the other armies put together, and by a large margin. If it had not been for Hitler’s mistake, and the sacrifice of the Soviet people, the whole of europe, Britain and North Africa would have a common language, German.

[@Mentol_]

The absolute losses of the USSR were great because the war on the eastern front lasted for almost 4 years, and in Europe for 1 - 1.5 months. But if you compare the losses of the countries in each campaign, they will not differ much.

[@moaningpheromones]

Had Hitler occupied Russia and Britain - I'm no expert but I wonder if the USA in full war production would likely still be able to liberate all of Nazi Europe? Then of course USA was first to master the atomic bomb - and I think that really would be just about game over when you start planting Germany with mushrooms.

[@abdirahmanidris290]

Hitler wanted a peace deal with Britain so they wouldn't have spoken German.

[@jeremiahblake3949]

That's not true, yes the Soviets suffered very much, but so did the Chinese, and the peoples of SE asia, and the poles and Balkans, all of whom lost millions. Soviet casualties were likely the most, but not a majority of all casualties.

[@wirezd4279]

Apparently Asia didn't exists

[@jdclapp]

Incredibly well done. Even as someone who knows a lot about WWII, this was extraordinary.

[@tripontube365]

That why Game of throne always say "Winter is coming"

[@TAHK_T34]

Oh yeah, if u have soviet citizenship, u may not to affraid frosty weather. (sarcasm)

[@ugandanwarrior5657]

@@TAHK_T34 they are brainwashed. They think Russians dont feel cold. So many retards repeat this winter myths again and again in the comment section. I guess Muricans are taught this bullshit in schools.

[@philRminiatures]

Intéressant et très bien réalisé, bravo pour ces animations de qualité et pour ces informations claires et précises...👍👍

[@Petr_Ast]

@Lloyd Bonafide When you meet people, you introduce yourself to them in French: "I'm Just an' Idiot"

[@Keiladona]

Слава Советскому солдату!

[@chrisstucker1813]

7:45 1,250,000 men deployed JUST to that sector! the sheer scale of the conflict on the eastern front is almost impossible to truly fathom.

[@billding7073]

Astonishing and vivid graphics. Kept me spellbound.

[@IndigenousRealGuy]

I like how we look at this video with moving lines and cool maneuvers and in reality it’s just P A I N A N D S U F F E R I N G

[@bigchunk1]

The level of detail here is amazing. Well done.

[@Jackuves]

I love how you see in 3:40 the historical accuracy on how the garrison of Bialostok managed to hold out for almost a month before surrendering

[@FranzAusDerLausitz]

Im from East Germany, most of my Grand Grand fathers (Born 1997) were in Stalingrad or Leningrad. My Grandpa told me a while a go, a Story of his dad. His dad got captured in Leningrad and were over 3 years in an Labor camp. Cause his dad was able to speak russian fluent he worked there for them as a mechanic. After this he got a sign which says the USSR forgive him and a Bag of Potatoes. All of the Prisoners get back in a Train and most of them, including my Grand Grand dad had underweight. He shared the hole bag of potatoes with them and came back with the biggest type of malnutrition. Love the Storys of my grandpa.

[@peterkuznetzoff3480]

My great grandfather never told me his stories, he died in that war, they even never found his body. However, my great grandmother shared a few stories how she had to rise two sons by herself. They were really lucky and survived the famine after the war. By the way, out of curiosity, how many Russian prisoners got freedom from German camps and a sack of potatoes?

[@arkjedrzejewsky4990]

@@peterkuznetzoff3480 great reply really Peter,regards

[@peterkuznetzoff3480]

@@arkjedrzejewsky4990,dziękuję.

[@maximr6576]

My father was a little kid when he and his friends lurked next to a German POWs camp and he gave them potatoes and bread through the barbed wired fence and they gave him and his friends wooden toys they made by themselves

[@equilibriajorvingia9705]

"Comrade Commissar, why are we using potatoes?"

[@soyusmaximus7176]

Personally, I'd argue that the decisive year of the war was 1941, since the Soviets had managed to just barely hold on meaning their manpower and industrial advantage would do the rest of the job for them until 45.

[@squamish4244]

Yes, and 4:08 was the critical decision. Hitler ordered the panzers diverted south to encircle Kiev while his generals uniformly told him he should head straight for Moscow. Only green divisions stood between the Wehrmacht and the city, which was at that point undefended.

[@StrayingCat]

@@squamish4244 But what would that achieve? A moral victory? They'd leave themselves extremely exposed to the first wave of mobilized troops of the Soviets.

[@squamish4244]

I believe that by controlling access to the railways, the Germans could have effectively prevented the next wave of Soviet mobilization from threatening them. Irl, the Soviets turned Moscow into an impenetrable fortress by November 1941. The Germans could have accomplished the reverse. I also think the fall of Moscow and the movement of the government to Kuybyshev as planned would have been the last straw for Stalin's leadership. He survived the shock of the initial invasion, but I don't think he could have survived the fall of Moscow. I don't think the fall of Moscow would have been the end for Soviet/Russian resistance. Very bloody battles would likely have continued to be fought up and down the front. But I do think it would have deprived them of the ability to dislodge the Germans from their territory.

[@mambah_mango1211]

nope... gas and oil is the reason the germans lost

[@TovKafur]

@@mambah_mango1211 They had enough of both in 1941. Logistics is another question.

[@christopherweber9464]

I watch a lot of battlefield animation and yours was done with an expertness that I have not seen before ... This was outstanding work thank you

[@Jacob-df5hr]

My favourite WW2 fun fact is that Stalin was just like, "what if we took all our factories, and _pushed_ them somewhere else??" and it fuckin worked