German Soldiers Couldn't Survive Russian Winters, The Secret Was Russian Boots
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Discover the secret weapon that helped Russian soldiers survive the harsh winters against German invaders during World War II - traditional Russian valenki boots. Learn how these felt boots were so crucial to staying warm that German and Italian forces attempted to replicate them but failed. Find out why valenki were a game-changer in the brutal Russian winter and how they became a coveted item for soldiers trying to withstand the frigid temperatures. Uncover the fascinating history behind the importance of Russian boots in warfare and how they played a key role in the ultimate survival of those facing the brutal Russian winter.
Stay tuned to learn more about the intriguing story of German Soldiers who couldn't survive Russian winters, and the secret weapon that was Russian boots.
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What's next.. a photo of the Nazis in Hawaii looking for Hawaiian shirts
It’s only a matter of time.
While on the beach drinking hawaiian cocktail
😂😂😂😂
Nazis actually made it to the US. The spies landed off a beach in Amagansett, NY. The traveled quickly from there.
They would never return to Germany.
30 miles outside Moscow is the closest the Germans got. They would have gotten closer if Hitler didn’t divert them.
You are mistaken, not 30 miles, but 20 km. This was already a district, Khimki, a suburb of Moscow
@@Obvious_Incredible_ YOU ARE BOTH MISTAKEN the northern pincer movement got the closest at 12 miles
@@Obvious_Incredible_ YOU ARE BOTH MISTAKEN the northern pincer movement got the closest at 12 miles
@@Jacob-rl4nyyo bro real sigma
@@Obvious_Incredible_-Exactly. They reached even the tram station of that suburb.
The Russians also had a form of puffer jackets, much better suited than the wool overcoats the Germans had. You can lump all of this into the bag of "Don't invade Russia in the winter, unless you are the Mongols."
They didn't invade in the winter, they invaded on June 22nd 1941.
@@stepheng623 This is true, but they bogged down in the winter and that is what got them, like so many others, so the spirit and truth of my post remains. That & commies working in Brit intelligence sent the info to the Red Army.
😂😂😂😂
@@stepheng623but then winter came
@@stepheng623 lol he attacked in September or smth. Wth are you talking about
I used to have a copy of valenki.. they are no longer made here in my country for a long time. Outstanding footwear for winter and wet, muddy roads and weather.
Are u a Russian?
German did reproduce the valenki and it's called Filzstiefel albeit its not a full felt and it did appear on battle of Stalingrad, while the Italians unfortunately did only reproduce the valenki boots in limited capacity despite fielding its Alpini who have withstand the coldness of the alpine mountain still cannot withstand the harsh Russian winter
Hehe 😊 Italians always last
Italians rule we don't need that in our lovely warm country 😂
The Germans made the first guided missiles, but couldnt reverse engineer boots 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
No shit. Guided missile check. Cold weather boots not check.
Only because of alien technology it was handed to them. They didn’t have the resources to mass produce that type of product that was found in Russian land
That's why they lost the war!
I could be wrong, but I seen that Bc hitler thought he’d win the war easily, he didn’t invest in the right equipment for the winter thinking the battles would last only a few months.
They were sending small troops with hatches to the battlefields in the middle of the night to collect Valenkis from the, by then deepfrozen, fallen soldiers. This was usually done by chopping off the legs below the knee. The Valenkis were then placed next to a stove or campfire to thaw so that they could be more easily separated from the feet.
It sounds wild. But pretty realistic during the war.
I have been wearing a pair of Veltschoen shoes 👞 for 65 years. I bought them in Horne Brothers shop at the end of Newport Court Soho. They used to display them in a perspex box, under water.
They are as good today as they were the day I bought them.
In Finland, they have been used for ages and are still used today. The good ones seemed to be around 150 euros a pair.
German troops never entered Moscow....yet your facts straight.
Listen again.Entered Russia ….and.Neared moscow
They entered its outskirts. They had a line of sight on the Kremlin.
They entered Stalingrad😊
Those felt inserts really do keep your feet warm
Well...This is not entirely accurate. Although yes, the russian and generally eastern european winters are pretty harsh, but the populated areas (Not Siberia, Yakutia etc.)which were the aim of the operations are very comparable to what you would experience in Germany when is comes to temperature.
The problem was that they thought they could take over Russia quickly with blitzkrieg as they did with other European countries.
Operation Barbarossa started on the 22nd of June 1941, since the invasion caught Russia by surprise for the first x months Germany was just pushing them back since they were not prepared.
But the land was so huge the supply lines were like 2000 km long AND THEN winter hit.
So the soldiers were stuck in the russian winter in summer clothes....
Ah so the Germans did have winter clothing? It just couldn’t get to them? That makes so much more sense.
@@simendumont2087 some had and some did not. The supply lines were so long it took forever to get it.
I mean imagine having to transport 2.5 million sets of full winter gear (pants, coats, boots, etc. ) to a front that is 2000-3000 km away.
@@PokmalacHUNwith the partisans disrupting the train lines all the way.
The Germans only reached Moscow in July 1944 when 54,000 of them took part in a parade through the streets.
Nice one.
This was their , ,, victory parade. ,,,,
You hit the nail on the head with that comment
Then the water trucks after that had to clean up all the shit n doo doo left on the streets bc the German soldiers were fed poison
@danny.55no. The people who they had in camps have won now.
They could just ask from finns about felt slippers xD
Only reason they didnt had good winter equipment is because Hitler ignored his generals demand for them because he thought war is going to be over before winter
That was another detail that was hidden. Hitler did order them, it was his War Productions Ministers who didn’t act on the advice or rather those within Germany that hated Hitler. The German Wehrmacht was not the SS, and like the Imperial Japanese Army versus the Imperial Japanese Navy. They had an inner circle rivalry for equipment, war materials, as well as quality rations for their divisions. The Africorp likewise were abandoned by Hitler’s military staff and instead started focusing in on the UK. Same thing happened within the Luftwaffe under Herman Gorings command. The whole military were fighting for munitions and oil production targets, without these they couldn’t win anything. It was again rivalry between differing factions within the Nazi Military.
The US also had this problem between Western European forces versus the Pacific theatre of operations.
The only Germans troops that entered Moscow were POWs. Later, they were given valenki for free on their way to Siberia.
Also, Zukov was able to use the 80 Siberian divisions, held back in case the Japanese tried to invade Russia again.
General Winter was the best general that the Soviets had.
zukov
Also field rats that chewed through wiring in german tanks parked oustide stalingrad
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Russian men wore extra large boots and stuffed them with hay. I've seen many Russian soldiers saying every one in Russia knows to stuff hay in their boots.
Probably straw instead of hay. They use straw for animal bedding.
Makes sense. I'm surprised the Germans and Italians couldn't replicate them.
I remember a story that was told by Ingemar Somberg, a Swedish veteran that fought in the 5th SS Division "Wiking" from the beginning of the war on the Eastern Front. He was only 17 when the invasion started.
He told a story from Late November 1941, when they were in Ukraine. A norwegian man had asked if he could borrow his shovel as it was much sharper than his own. He told that he said "yes", but he asked himself why and then he did not think more about it.
That night in the dugout everyone woke up to a terrible smell, it was a pair of Soviet boots with the owner’s feet still in them. The Norwegian had hung the boots over the stove and now the frozen feet has thawed and smelled terribly.
However they were so exhausted by the heavy fighting that they had seen, so no one had the energy to do anything about it.
German never got into Moscow, or in St Petersburg for that matter.
Dear German troops were in a place that is now called Khimki, 20 minutes away. on the way to the center of Moscow it was already the outskirts of Moscow
@@Obvious_Incredible_And then?
@@heimomoilanen9654then lend lease altered the tide
@@PrincepratapsinghRawat-cw5em 😂😂
@@PrincepratapsinghRawat-cw5emYou think it was the lend lease act that turned the tide in the eastern front😂 you're very mistaken
Ah yes, covering your feet will save your entire body from freezing to death.
If your feet freeze you'll die bc you can't walk and if you sit still you'll freeze to death way faster
The French took Moscow. The Germans reached its suburbs. Nowadays, nobody can come close to it.
Then why are the Russians so scared of something like that happening?
Mc Donald's did 😂😂
@@gonzalesfrederic6213 this must be another Russian stooge channel
The French didn't took the Moscow...
Still trying to relive their Napoleon Era, they ain’t won a war since bow and arrows😂
The Rasputitsa (rainy season) started October 1st, and made the countryside so boggy, the German vehicles were slowed to a crawl.
How Uggs were born, and now you know the rest of the story. I was stationed in Germany, their winter boots we called "Herman the Germans" were good but no the best. I had to spend 10 days in Minot, ND during January with windchills reaching -90° wearing my HTGs, I took one step out of my big rig, to leaping back in. Then a Russian came walking out carrying a box with felt boots, as I put them on I felt them too. He handed me a wreath of tropical flowers and an aloha Hawaiian shirt, oddly labeled Hamburg, Hawaii. Next on this subject, the brits wore bedwarmers as shoes with their long handles used as clock knockers to put German troops to bed
They never reached Moscow!
Dear, if you don’t know, then it’s better not to say, but German troops were on the outskirts of Moscow, 20 minutes away by road from the Kremlin
They did but only for a bit, until we’ll trained soldiers came from Siberia I think
@@Obvious_Incredible_ so they never reached moskau...thanks for stating the fact.... like wtf are u talking
@@bertadiemilchkuh812it really depends on your definition. They reached the outskirts of Moscow and an outskirt is usually the outer part of a city.
@@bertadiemilchkuh812you really are stupid bruh
I mean the mongols invaded during the winter too and they absolutely swept the Russians. Held them as vassals until the khanate collapsed due to infighting. You don’t need special boots you just need solid logistics which neither Napoleon or Germany had for their invasions.
Yes have you ever been to Mongolia it's an extremely mountainous country that is used to brutal winners so it's not beyond reality the things that maybe the Mongolians were better adapting to brutal freezing cultures and areas then people like bavarians for Sicilians as an example both of which would have been in the German and Italian army and would have spent their evolution in much warmer climates of Mongolians would have probably had much better protection from cold and even lungs that were able to breathe in higher altitudes as we know that any population that lives centuries in the mountains tends to do better breathing in higher climates
actually Mongolians invented this haha, it's called эсгий n been around thousands of years like since we had sheep, Mongol ger's only insulator is one layer of esgii, barely 1in thick. Mongolians are actually better adapted to this weather than Russians are, ultimately we Mongols are Siberian locals, Russians look funny in winter with their red noses 😂 it's not from vodka, its from cold and the vodka is for the cold haha
this might be interesting, there is a saying "Mongolians don't die in the wild" what westerns call survival skills and wat not is part of our customs and not really considered as skills n more like need to know basics, if someone specially Mongolian man die in the wild somehow, it's considered shameful to Mongolians and to humanity, and was not worthy of nature, it's not because it's easy or cus of arrogance n pride, it's because we know how harsh nature can be so they should have known better n prepared better. And when Mongolian man can't live in the wild or survive, they are considered as bad Man, bottom of the list in a way. and word for bad man is "Die good rather than living bad" we don't survive the wild we thrive. Also when we go somewhere we don't worry or talk about when we will get there but worry about how we will get there and prepare, and when we talk or ask about when we will get there it's considered as not Mongolian n bad luck in a way, specially on a long journey it's like jinksing the whole journey, it's because we know how unpredictable nature and things can be, anything can happen but we will get there alive somehow somewhen. 😅
Thanks for the tip. If I ever go back in time I'll make sure th hey have them because fuck this world we live in now.
really warm shoes
Ok, but why does the background music sound like old school Resident Evil on the winter?
The Germans never made it to Moscow. Still had 30 miles to go 😮
14 miles.
14 miles lol
I always felt those would come in handy
I read that the German army lacked sufficient winter clothing. That would hurt when it's -49 deg. Fahrenheit.
It’s not true that they didn’t have earthly uniforms. It got stuck in Poland in Warsaw on the railway and it didn’t arrive by winter. There was no such cold, it was cold, it was minus 10-15 Celsius as always.
Pozvani na letovanje, a ?
Šta će zločinci u tudjem gradu , sejali zločine i smrt !
Nice info for boots for winter
JACK FROST AND FATHER WINTER ARE THE TWO GREATEST RUSSIAN ALLIES!!
What about hot lead From Russian rifles?
The winter is alway an excuse to why they lost the war. Fact is Russia beat the hell outta them. It was real war both sides lost men But Russia came out victorious and followed the enemy back home and beat them on thier own homeland. Heroic.
Very true they underestimated how tough russia was. Hitler underestimated how ruthless Stalin was .
Winter and human wave tactics ensured Germany’s defeat
Yes tho it was 600millons tons of every kind of supply's from the U.S. or they'dnever been able to; or had the Japanese opened a Far Eastern Front dividing his forces; tho definitely no supplies and for sure no supply's AND Japs coing in the rear...!
The Bankstee financer of Stalin could allow their pet project to dail...!
😂😂😂 Germany made a winter boot that is still used today. They didn’t need to reverse engineer the Russian boots
Right...so they could make the V2 but could not make a felt boot..
Of the same quality 😂 they don't get winters like Russia and quite literally they had massive problems with frostbite of the feet cause their boots where not adequate
The best weapon the soviets had is the weather and Hitler's stupidity
The Battle of Kursk took place in summer and not in winter this time. Secondly, the battle for Stalingrad also began in the summer. What does the weather have to do with it?
@@Obvious_Incredible_ the real progress of the soviets was the encirclement of Paul's sixth army in Stalingrad during Oranus operation. The whether was necessary for the success
@@Obvious_Incredible_ I am from Israel too. The Russian Winter saved their butts also on top of that add Hitler strategic major mistakes. By 1943 July the Germans were finished, they lost it outside of Moscow. Had they taken Moscow and had Hitler not intervened, Operation Barbarossa would've achieved more satisfactory results.
I disagree, the soviets best weapon is the Vodka
Well, They are not weapons for one. Also they didn't exactly get into Moscow, But was very close! Unfortunately for Hitler, He made a tactical mistake, By Diverting his troops to the south, And a large German force was sent to the North of Italy to stop the British Advance from the south. The cold Winter certainly did play a huge part of the Russian Victory! As the German Army was far stretched and was hugely unprepared for Winter Warfare in terms of clothes and gear.
A Weapon that actually helped Russia was the T36 Tank, Its sloped Armour made it difficult for the German Tiger and Leopard tanks to destroy them, Also they were cheaper and easier to mass produce unlike the Tiger Tank for example, Which was very complex, Expensive and production was slow compared to the T36.
Not to mention that the Soviet Union was being supported by the British via the Baltic Sea, Tanks, Weapons and Ammo was supplied.
After the Winter offensive, German troops did counter attack and took back some ground, Unfortunately for them, D-day come about, Over 1 million British troops, And 1 million Canadian and US Forces landed in Normandy.
Hilter coming to the realisation that he now faces a War on two fronts, Had no choice but to divide his military. Therefore the 2 million German troops were split, And Russia using the tactics they still use today, Continued sending mass amounts of troops at them. To a point where the Soviet Union Had 4 million troops vs a very divided and battered almost 1 million German Army that had no choice but to retreat.
As much as people will say it was the Russians that beat Hitler, This was not true it was a joint effort from western forces that played a massive part, including Africa and Italy.
Also to add, Russia (Soviet Union) Was in an alliance with Nazi Germany and Russia also helped the German Army invade Poland, And those Soviet soldiers also committed many acts of Warcrimes against innocent civilians. Its a shame this isn't mentioned enough.
Beginning of Video: talks about weapon
The Video: talks about boring boots
Lol talk about bornign boots
I remember wearing these type of boots as a kid in Ukraine Kharkiv in the early 90s
Russian women wrapped their valenki in rags 😂
I’d think that would end up drawing attention. What are you hiding, ma’am?
Cool- where do you get some?
Native American wore a flap in front,and a flap in back,butt fought with hardly nothing on😂🎉
Got that Right 👍
My father wrapped his feet in long pieces of FELT inside his winter boots. Work outside all day with warm, dry feet while my feet were FREEZING. He just told me it was FELT. Regret l did not save it after his death. Wish l had seen this information at that time. He would dry them by the stove oven at night, l assume from his feet sweating. Thanks for the info ❤ My dad was well informed about such things having immigrated from that region of Europe.
The Japanese were so spread across Asia & Pacific they didn't open a Far East Front with Russia so Stali did not have to fight a 2Front War merely concentrate Westward, as the U.S. shipped him 600 million tons of supply's to the genocidal monster Stalin & his Soviet killer Ghouls:
- OR either way with 2Front war for Stalin +/or no supply's = Stalin would've been taken outfor he waa the true threat and reason Germany had armed up to begin with in seeing Stalins slaughter of 40million of his own(many were German ancestry long invited by previous Czars) he had also invaded 6 other nations and was arming up to take all Europe Germany 1st...!
OUR Gen. Patton figured all this out too late; the international bankster/FED couldn't allow their Communist experiment they financed in 1917 & since = USSR to be allowed to fail...!
Tho their Plan-B is CCP and is their go to world model for us all in the long run...!
Nah they went all balls deep in snow instead.
Germans never reached Moscow...open a book
Russian book 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@INSTITUTE-2277 Any book, any WWII documentary, anything you study, read or watch about WWII will tell you they never reached Moscow. Quit being stupid.
@@BRod1994 they were on the outskirts of moscow
@@INSTITUTE-2277 15 miles, if you call being 15 miles away from the city in the city then you need to take a geography course. And 15 miles in military distance is far, very far.
@@BRod1994 they were 20 kilometers from moscow
Their fuel froze, their helmets were pure naked metal,undergarments (thinking about winter wool clothes you wear underneath for your torso).were not used as well... between all other things
Copying an item and doing it in the Volume Required are two different things! By the time Germany got close to Moscow, it already had serious Supply Issues. Felt Boots and their Advantages had been known for many years. Find someone who worked On The Docks in the Northern U.S. in the 30's! Add a pair of Rubber Overshoes and you have the beginnings of a Pair Of Sorels. Such Footgear Was Known, then you get Military Idiots who Demand they be capable of being Polished!
"...demanded that they be polished!" This is the US Army circa 1980. :-)
Had excellent winter suits also. Germans tested it in a cold chamber, was so warm test subject fell asleep. Having a Siberian army pushed the Soviets to develop excellent gear.
The Russians def had better gear for the cold.
Branili otadžbinu od ZLOČINACA !
They never reached Moscow, just the outskirts. Reconnaissance troops were close enough to see the spires of the Kremlin from a hilltop at a distance. That's as close as they got.
Russia has the best GENERALS IN THE WORLD.
December, January and February
Germans didn't have winter clothes. Hitler didn't want his troops to think they would be there long.
Rusi su najjča na svetu na svojoj teritoriji.
It seems ridiculous that Napoleon could not think winter was coming . Didn't they know how cold it was in Russia? Their greed and ego could not retreat? No wonder his French imperialism stopped, and his dream of becoming an emperor died along with any hope of French monarchy
can you use real photos instead
Russians won the war against Germany because of the winter gear. Ushanka hats and boots made it easy to survive in the cold. Germans simply could not withstand the cold and lost. Also strength in numbers and thousands of tanks. It is hard to invade Russia because of the cold weather.
Boots are not weapons
Time to unsubscribe
And that is why we don’t all speak German right now
Not rocket science.
So the makers of the first jet fighter can't make an insulated pair of boots? Is that correct?
if US did not inter the war later than that day . German would already took over Russia . and then US intered after and would be no Soviet , no Communist .
LOL
What is bro on about
not exactly true
Whats wild is theres been many wars fought in the snow and armies always run into the same issues yet never do anything about it, plenty of wars before soldiers suffered due to a lack of cold weather gear yet they didnt do anything to remedy that until like the 60s in kany countries
Blah blah blah, Soviet army was stronger.
Not really, they just had more poor people that got wasted, many Soviet soldiers didn't even have weapons. They just sent a huge mass of people and when someone with a weapon died, the next one picked it up and kept moving.
It was helping to defeat the german troops, but the massiv loss of Soviet soldiers, shows that many were just tools and not more.
Hitler had whole Europe in his pocket and had lost to USSR.
@@michaelpolyakov1395 stronger 🤣🤣
@@marcsigmundson8337These lies about the the Soviets are incredible😂. Atleast feel some kind of shame when you spread misinformation that you got from some action movies.
Also the smug "not really" is just perfect.
@@quasark5007 What lies?? 34 million man and women got mobilized by the sowjets, 84% of those either died, got wounded or captured (the numbers come from Michail Gorbatschow), how can the "strongest army" have the highest losses in the entire war, when they've been so "extremely good" and didn't got unnecessarily wasted by Stalin.
Then the Russians entered Finland and realized the valenki was insufficient to survive the Finnish winter.
This is foolishness
😭🤣 I never thought that I see a day when someone will be making videos about ВАЛЕНКИ being a secret weapon 😭🤣🤦👌👍👏
Distortion of history.
These kind of videos should be cleaned up immediately and the post owner be fined
Cold feet is literally the only thing I worry about being homeless lol
They do keep your feet warm without making them sweat. They're wonderful
''They encountered a secret Russian weapon''
proceeds to show a clothing
Entered the outskirts for about what 2 weeks,2 months?long walk home after that
Okay...but why spooky music. I almost thought they are doing some ghost rituals
Aye hold up now. I need some of the Valankys in Michigan. Yall been holding out WTF!!!
Alexander Solshenitzen mentions them in Day in the life of Ivan Desonavitch
Which world war was it?
The third one.
Válenki literally means "felted" or "felties" from the verb -valyat'- means "to felt".
“They encountered a secret weapon”
Ahh yes…The Snow
Just imagine, doing this type of shit in an indoor pool
They never reached Moscow and their winter gear was fine …it was the failure to re- supply them that cost them not their boots.
Folks, I don't know if something similar to valenkies exist, but I assure you that it's the most comfortable shoes to put on in winter.
It's probably like the third or fourth soldier to wear the same boots.Don't mess with "human waves".
Interesting!👍
The Russians who rejected God were very foolish, because God had protected their vast land through the many centuries of its development.
Yes SCP soviet winter boot wearing them grants immunity to cold its impossible to replicate even with identical materials
Italo Garibaldi Is like George Lincoln
Even before the reveal I knew what it was cuz I'm really good at ww1 and ww2 histories
Also winter wasnt so strong as everyone imagined
The German army didn't reach Moscow.
Even the Great Napoleon learned that the hard way.🤭🤣
If you line leather boots with rabbit fur your feet will not (perspire) sweat. My dad had a pair of Red Wing boots when he was a young lineman in the mid 50s. He wore those boots and climb poles in the winter months. Ice was on poles they beat it off with hammers on the way to the top. So thats a memory of my childhood. If its not true im sorry i was young walking in dads shoes
You'd think back then they would think of what animals thrive and what does every farmer have that grows enough fur to use for such. I bet it was a mixture of certain furs treated with something kinda like how wool socks are.
They never reach Moscow... heard they had only seen the top of the famous building in Moscow. Then couldn't they push anymore
Really the secret weapon is a pair of fur boots well it does make sense
My little brother really want that boots.
Yet i survived in my sneakers