There was a German Officer that wrote to his diaryduring the first weeks of invading Soviet Union (when there was huge territorial gains for Germany and hunders of thousands of captured Soviet soldiers) " I observe thousands of enemy soldiers without hands, eyes and other horrible wounds but I hear not a moan from them. If this is average Soviet soldier, the was is lost"
Something similar or this particular phrase was said by general Heinz Guderian, architect of Blitzkrieg and the very same general who ordered the halt of German army right outside Moscow after which battle of Moscow took place if I'm not mistaken about these supposed facts.
@@Vlad79500 The midnight knock at the door by armed government thugs, and the trip to the Lubyanka or the gulag, were horrors most of the free world did not need to fear, despite the economic privations wrought by the global depression. Nor was genocidal starvation common in the free world.
I don't like the title the Man of Steel makes him out to be Superman. He was a monster who MURDERED 6 million of his own people and never himself fought in any wars.
I wouldn't say they are explored, after all they are giving you the Anglo-Saxon version of events only. From what history has confirmed, Anglo-Saxon historians tend to be unreliable
My grandfather, Pavel V. Soloviov, was among those captured during the disastrous Kharkov operation. His entire tank brigade was wiped out and ceased to exist, among numerous other units - all thanks to the inadequacy and arrogance of Kremlin's high command (especially Khrustchev). He ended up spending 2.5 years in a German POW camp (where Soviets were treated very badly) before bravely escaping and rejoining the advancing Soviet forces in 1944. After the war, he was stripped of all his honors and medals and forbidden from ever using his college degree - the price he was forced to pay for having "acted as a traitor". Many others paid a much higher price: they were sent to Soviet labor camps. For the rest of his life, my grandfather drove a tractor in his small village and suffered from various ailments he had brought back from the war. He refused to talk about his wartime experiences, fearful of the NKVD and the Gulag. He passed away at the age of 51. RIP 🙏❤️🥀
It's just incomprehensible today, what people had to go through during those times. And when it comes to POW's, the soviets were very much like the japanese. You either die or fight. If you're captured, you're a traitor, no matter what.
What Stalin did to his own country was crime, Soviets War losses may be hafved if somebody competent was in power... what comunist did to peaple who went to fight Nazis from "wrong" side was also crime,... for example many Czechoslovak pilots and crews who fight from Britain alongsite RAF got even imprisoned after returning to Czechoslovakia after Comunist came to power.
I’m obsessed with WWII history too, why?! Our life, customs, way of thinking, politic, millions of other things are still as the results of WWII ‘s events and the way it was fought and handled. It is amazing that the biggest event of Human history, unfortunately not too many people are aware of it
Probably because you understand instinctively that in a sense we're still dealing with the repercussions of that war and that much of U.S. global policy and belligerence stems from that era.
It's amazing how people are so willing to give up their freedoms under these vaccine mandates. As they say, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Eh, more like the fate of continental Europe. They beat the Germans back on their own in the battle of Britain. Being an island (difficult to invade) and having the backing of industry in the United States, they could have held out on their own. The Soviet Union definitely was crucial in winning though as they fought continuously from 1941-45 and as slavs faced more German barbarism than anyone other than the Jews.
My two uncles fought in the Polish first division under Soviet control all the way into Berlin ...my father was captured along the way sent into forced slave labor... after the war he joined up with the American army got us tickets to come West after he met my mother at a displaced persons camp dance
I am amazed that Churchill is being represented as having killed less people than Stalin. He killed 3 1/2 million in one go, during the now famous Bengal famine. Both were above average men and both had their short comings. But I feel this documentary is much less unbiased than the ones we normally come across.
No doubt Indians were shortchanged over the many years that India was under the British Empire. Although Churchill was probably aware of the rice shortage in Bengal I couldn't find any reference to it when I read his memoirs about WW II. It was the middle of the war and Britain was fighting for its own survival. Given that there were dire shortages of all kinds of products, I think it's reasonable to assume that Churchill put the interests of his own country ahead of any others. (Added: Now that I recall Churchill's memoirs, he had glowing praise for the Sikhs. The Sikhs made up the majority of the British Indian Army. They were Punjabis. There was another Indian army, the Free India Legion, that supported the Nazis. The fact that the Free India Legion was headed by a Bengali, Subhas Chandra Bose, may have influenced Churchill's attitude.)
@Bruce Bat nope. You are clearly using riduculing logical fallacy since you cant prove me wrong. The Communist and Bolshevik leaders took the wheat and sold it in the international markets. Russia could have fed the whole Russia and half of Europe if it was not for the crooked elite.
my grandfather was captured and spent 4 years in the gulags of Vladivostok. I miss his stories from that period.We are not a tenth as manly as that generation was. Today if we forget our phone at home for a day we are done
My German grandfather died on the Russsian Front. On his one leave he hinted at horrible things. My uncle, 17 when captured, wasn't released until late 1949. He spent most of the time in a camp outside Leningrad. He got night blindness, and a Russian woman restored his sight by smuggling him carrots. She felt sorry for him. He learned Russian and liked the people. He said if it weren't for Stalin, he said he would have stayed. He was lucky to survive, but he was always a quiet and withdrawn guy. My grandfather was 41 when he was sent to fight (he wouldn't join the party). Soon after his son, 17. Horrible times.
*You can congratulate your uncle, he is a war criminal on whose conscience 800 thousand lives of innocent civilians, I also advise you to read what the German soldiers from the North Army Group did in Veliky Novgorod, out of 300 thousand inhabitants at the time of its liberation by the Red Army, 2,000 people remained in it , the rest were all brutally killed by German and Spanish soldiers!* ua-cam.com/video/IiQDe0Au58c/v-deo.html
@@UltraTotenkopf An old man in Gomel told me 1985 about the murdering of 60000 Jews from the town.Actually fake news,they were evacuated long before the Wehrmacht arrived.Most Russians have not the slightest problems with blatant lies.
Dis mantel 1500 factories, move them and their workers and families to a new location, a thousand or more kilometers away, while the nation was under attack, re assemble and begin producing, some within weeks! That"s mind boggling even by today's standards.
*@Brian W.* _"That"s mind boggling even by today's standards."_ Actually there is a more mind boggling than that. The US dismantled over 7000 of their factories and in no time moved them to China...without their workers and families...wait I am not finished yet... after the move the US started a war, a trade war with China and then blaming and cursing her for _stealing_ American jobs and for the trade deficit in her favor ... and that the US workers lost their jobs because the Chinese opened the flood gates to the super greedy and nationless US corporations that by the way run and direct the US government. So to conclude they moved their factories to their _enemies_ camp and then started the war, *THAT"S MIND BOGGLING.*
@@bl00dline360 Thanks Frankie, my comment was loaded with sarcasm I admit, but also loaded with facts. This said, *Brian W* was *ABSOLUTELY* right about the incredible and mind boggling implementation of a complex operation (logistics) of dismantling and moving thousands of factories their workers and their families behind the Ural and out of reach of the invaders. It is reported that it caused diarrhea to the half-mustached shorty 😂
I am so disappointed that the directors of this documentaries didn't even bring up Central Asian people who had a huge impact to Red Army. Millions of them died in order to defend the Soviet union, whereas it is believed that Russian people only had won the war
So? People say "British" when they refer to the entire Empire. Whether you like it or not, Central Asia was in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union claimed to be the successor state to the Russian Empire. This documentary was purely about the Stalin and his personality. There is nothing stopping you or anyone else doing a documentary on the "central Asians"
@@21silvermoon The more research one does the more things come up and change the outlook.In the future it will be possible to use artificial intelligence to know the past and the present in a better way.
It's really only been in the last few decades that the Indians and other colonies have gotten their due as well, fighting for their subjugators. I would appreciate a documentary on the minor powers of the war and their sacrifices.
Professor Reynolds- I have never posted a comment on any documentary before, but I feel absolutely compelled to do so here. Simply extraordinary work by you and your staff in bringing forward the vivid reality of how things progressed, with all the heart wrenching uncertainties every step of the way. In particular, the way EGO (on all sides) is portrayed throughout and how it impacted how the war progressed in very real terms with alliances, conspiracy theories and the fragility of the ultimate outcome was simply expertly portrayed. Kudos to you Sir- I am far from a scholar in the discipline of journalism but feel this is the a shining example - especially in these times of flagrantly non-objective media
Luciano Silvestri. Did not the Italians change sides when their uniforms got dirty? And by the way the Soviet forces liberated Poland gfrom the Nazis, it was Churchill that offered Poland to Stalin.
They are talking about Russians all the time, when in actuality they should talk about the Soviet people, because it wasn't only Russians suffering and fighting. The people,that suffered the most, where the Belarusian, the Baltic people and the Ukrainians. Their countries got occupied and pillaged.
It is fascinating how colonial history is praised as the great expansion by the Great British Empire, but the cruelty of it occupation is overlooked. At the same time criticising another cruel regime.
Stalin didn't fully "get away with it" on his deathbed it is said that nobody wanted to risk upsetting him so he was left alone to die slowly,unattended. A victim of the fear he imposed on those around him.
Lol nah that's a ridiculous made up story and rumor that only useful simple minded idiots like you think are true but any real experts or historians know is ridiculous.
Mark The real story is - he was found dead but some of the higher elite inner circle of Soviet Union who were mainly careerists like Khrushchev were glad to take their time to attempt to save Stalin because Stalins Soviet Union and terror and purges were almost entirely aimed at the powerful elite and threatened them - not the average worker even if he was critical of Stalin and said things which would have gotten them killed if they were powerful and among the most leadership so yeah Khrushchev and other careerists who had power but always feared Stalin would cleanse them of the party leadership - so they were much more comfortable with Stalin dead because they would inherit the collective leadership and power but wouldn’t have to worry about being watched by Stalin to see if they were becoming corrupt selfish careerists
@@sufimuslimlion4114 That is complete nonsense. The purges were also targeted at the kulaks, religous leaders and minorities. literally anyone who stalin didn't like, not to mention you are trying to make it seem like stalin only wnet after elites for benevolent reasons and not because they were a threat to his power.
Is it a "unique ability", or just the fact that they have had to suffer, mostly due to circumstances largely beyond their control, so much misfortune in the past 150 years?
I certainly wish I had Professor Reynolds for WWII History in school! His knowledge and delivery are both outstanding! When young, one doesn't really understand the significance of many historical events. But as one advances in years, history becomes more and more interesting - especially with a teacher like Professor Reynolds! . Thank you for a great video!
@@historyeditz8326 I’m not disputing that, Britain was at war at that time. It had more pressing matters at hand. But to say 25 million people died is pathetic.
According to Stalin's own words the resistance of Greece was so fierce that delayed the German Divisions long enough for the Russians to prepare their defense.
Stalin refused admit that Germany invading He then got whole armies destroyed threw his interfering It wasn’t until the tide had really turned that he again took tactical control again. The man would have thrown his own mother in front of him to save himself He was a bloody murdering tyrant before during and after the war
The leader who can rally together it's people by any means always stood a chance in time of crisis and Stalin how ruthless he may be manage to do just that.
@@adrianchannelle8651 Massively improve quality of life, teach everyone how to read, give everyone free healthcare, give everyone access to culture like classical music and theatre? How disgusting.
"The most remarkable turnaround in military historty"... Which cost russia 27 million ppl.. Russia has lost more ppl than all the other nations COMBINED no matter allied or axis!!!!!
@@KP-kg2ky You're just jealous ))) And you don't see any reason why the Soviets won . Pull all the dirt in your mouth in the style of Dr. Goebbels ..just make people laugh )))
@Alenas Kvasninas The difference Stalin killed millions of Soviets in the 20th Century and he killed his own people. The US and British killed their enemies and all before the 20th Century.
How Churchill can moralised millions of death of Russian described by Stalin during the dinner. Because Churchill himself responsible for millions of such death would wise. Churchill himself responsible for millions of death in Bengal province of India during Bengal famine of 1943. His policy was responsible for such atrocities. But in a British documentary it will not be told.
you mean that Churchill was responsible for the failure of the Government of Bengal to admit how serious the crisis was, or for the hoarding by speculators of foodstuffs, or for the loss of food imports from Malaya, or for FDR's refusal to allow transfer of allied merchant shipping? You do know that Churchill took food distribution out of the hands of the Bengal administration and gave to the Anglo-Indian army, or that he diverted grain shipments from Australia to India? No, of course you don't, because it doesn't fit your prejudiced agenda. Churchill was certainly guilty of not realising that the Bengal administration were making light of the situation as it developed. Obviously, he should have done. After all, it is not that, in 1943, he had anything else on his mind, is it?
How convenient it must be after millennia of dysfunction, malfeasance, total disregard of they're own country men vis-a-vis the caste system to blame it on one outsider. It precisely this kind of thinking that holds individuals and countries back. Take responsibility, and move forward.
This documentary is truly a masterpiece, especially the closing quote from 'Life & Fate' in the ending was truly chilling and sublime. An eloquent end to a captivating story.
One thing is the Germans certainly seemed very organized and disciplined. Not saying that produced desirable outcomes, but they certainly did seem very organized.
The Germans (Prussians) had mandatory conscription for one male per family back in the 1800’s. They were expertly trained and a culture of superiority through strength was the norm. They expected to win as a world champion football team expects to win. A study by the British General Staff said they couldn’t be beat on the ground. The strategy was to blockade and let the Russians bleed.
i will clarify that is "germans", a lot of it comes from their prussian military heritage and from the leadership of many famous and skilled military leaders. it had absolutely nothing to do with the nazis, just to point that out.
tremendous documentary. loved it. the narrator lets you into the humanness of Churchill and Stalin, in all their glory but especially into their dark sides.
@@carlpiazza1950 you have to be able to step out of ethnocentrism to understand the perspective of the other side. Russians expect strong rulers. but even in understanding their perceived “glory”, even Russians would bemoan Stalin’s darkside at the time of millions of them slaughtered.
Interesting viewpoint and in many ways I agree. The nerve you are referring to was the blood shed by those that went where his cigar pointed without him, losing an ash off it.
Did you know Churchill was in the political wilderness for 10 years. After he was voted out of Stanley Baldwins government in 1927, he was broke by 1929, the stock crash in the USA cleaned him out. He turned to US tycoon Bernard Baruch and he bailed ole Winston out. A few years later Churchill almost lost his Country manor called Chartwell, due to his lavish spending habits, expensive cigars, brandy and champagne(all while the British public was living on rations) and this time he was bailed out with £40,000(£750,000 today) by South African Gold mining magnate Henry Straikosch. Churchill then came under the influence of the Focus Group.
Well yeah. The allies waited for the russians to wear down the germans before they even thought about invading Europe. And that was only to keep Russia from taking over all of Europe.
Some historians maintain that even if the Germans had taken Moscow the ultimate victory would not have been theirs. Coming from Europe Russia is like a funnel and you enter it from the small opening. Beyond Moscow the vastness of Russia reveals itself, getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
What europe does not understand about russia is russian decentralization...russian power is not in moscow like London or Paris...russia and germany gets power from their well spreaded economy...across geography
@@jagatdave to be fair, that would be true for most large countries. USA, and China come to mind. taking the capital is just one strategic goal, it does not guarantee victory. what matters is crippling the enemy's ability to fight, targeting their industry and manpower, and inflicting consistent military defeats in the field through better tactics, and technology.
russia adopted the warfare tactics of mongolians and indians who favored a strategy of draging the enemy into a vast large lands to suffer from the vastness before launching a counter attack with mobilized units like horses or tanks.
As a kid I was taught what in the forest is edible; berries, mushrooms, plants etc., how to hunt and how to fish. It's like that for most kids. This knowledge can be the difference between life or death if you're stuck in a forest with no food.
The West is criticizing Stalin for signing a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939 to gain time. Yet no one talks about the Poles who signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1934.
Or France that had a mutual help treaty with chekoslovakia but refused to help and stop Germans from invading. Or Britain that easily gave up other countries to appease Germans.
@Alenas Kvasninas Churchill's famine was a result of being at war with the Japanese, Stalin's famine was for what exactly? Don't try and talk to me about the attrocities of the British government unless you are West Indian descent like me 🇬🇾 my point was the comparisons in the comment above weren't equivalent
Of course it had nothing to do with India's deeply dysfunctional government and centuries old, self imposed caste system. It so, so easy to blame outside forces rather taking responsibility for ones own corruption and malfeasance.
@@petert9110 churchill was the bigger monster and mass murderer then stalin. But the catch is that, churchill succeed to penetrate his propaganda into the brain of his people, so now he is remembered as hero. 4 million deaths in Bengal famine caused by churchill will not be forgotten.
@@petert9110 And What American "Leader" is better?, Trump carried America?. No. America is full of fraud and all your politicians steal Billions every year. Americans ignore this and just live on while their "Leaders" steal all the money.
My mother's village South of L'wow was destroyed as well as her house in Operation Barbarossa members of her family and villagers were killed... Two of her sisters ran to the Carpathian mountains and joined the resistance under Soviet control
*@A T.* Russians lined up behind *RUSSIA.* Stailn just happened to be the head of the state during that time. The patriotic saying of the Russians is: _"We may all die, but we will win"_ The other one is: _" We retreated and we retreated, but we ended up drinking coffee in Paris (1814) and schnapps in Berlin (1945)."_
They had no choice... there were NKVD men waiting with pistols if they didn’t. Sad that many of the people East of Germany basically had no choice of what to do.
@@josephmountford2292 Это враньё вашей лживой пропаганды. Советский народ воевал за своё Социалистическое отечество и Советскую власть, в то время как Европа легла под Гитлера и работала на нацистов.
These are the FACTS of case, this war was won on the EASTERN front, even western scholars admit that, only in West are children taught that the west was significant. As you have done just count the number of divisions and men in east, you get the ANSWER, like this program which treats war like a soap opera, as opposed to seeking the FACTS.
@@petergreen5337 Agree. If the allies could have opened the 2nd front 2 years ago, so many soviet lives could have been saved. They advertised their landing of 1 lakh soldiers on D-day like the greatest thing in history. On the eastern front, each battle comprised of millions of men and hundreds of thousands dead. The over-hype from the western allies was comical.
Yes, tenacious people. The title gives a lot of credit to Stalin, but didn't mention that he weakened Soviet army before the war with his purges. One can look at Soviet invasion of Finland to see how bad Soviet army was. A lot of lives was lost before Soviet army learned to fight again.
Stalin did not turn the tide of WW2. The incredible bravery and stoicism of the Russian people did. Stalin was more of a hindrance than a help to the Russian war effort .
7:18 Stalin in ordinary metro stations in an air raid...that must have been extremely morale boosting. The leader is here. This must be truly the safest place.
i wonder why, even now, some historians try to paint Churchill in a good light, presenting him as an compasionnate person. We are well aware of the Bengal famine at this point, so he was a man willing to make sacrifices (in the form of other people he considered inferior)
Great documentary! I must say I really am surprised someone as knowledgable as David Reynolds would use the terms "Russia" and "Russians" so carelessly. The Soviet Union was more than just Russia and using the term Russians when Soviets should be used instead is an insult to all of the other ethnicities and Republics of the Soviet Union.
In UK english the word "Russia" or "russians" actually meant the USSR although officially the country was known as the USSR. So it's not a mistake but a generalisation.
The Soviet Union is a stripped-down part of Russia 1918 without Finland and Poland, like the Baltic states, gained independence. In 1918, the Romanians captured Bessarabia, the Poles captured western Ukraine and Belarus. For 23 years, 15 republics were created on the territory of Russia. In 1940, Stalin partially restored, but... You will not find another name in the memoirs of historians. Nor the memoirs of German generals. They always use the word Russians. Churchill sometimes uses - Soviet Russia. It's like drawing a parallel to the United States. California American of Italian origin... Or just American?
One of the best history channels., I love the fact that of imagery, there's actual footage. Plus the Narrator is very entertaining (at least to me). Cheers from Angola
Ok, it's an English production, but even so the focus is derailed too much. The British, after all, was but a sidekick in WW II. The war was decided on the Eastern front.
1. Germans at that monument of "closest to Moscow" point could not see Kremel. And it was mainly mechanized infanty which was immediatelly pummelled. 2. Huderian was pummelled at south. 3. Central front was already deplented and bogged down, incapable to advance (even if the weather didn't strike). But seriously, WWII was won at Sevastopol and Leningrad due to huge losses and amount of forces which had to be kept there for much longer than Nazi's ever expected.
The Germans had such "good luck" at the beginning of Barbarossa invasion but off to a slow start, because of Balkans fighting. Then around October came Russia's rains and mud. German equipment bogged to a standstill. When the temperatures dropped a month later, the frozen ground solved the mud problem but the low temperatures hit the Germans due to their total unpreparedness. As if it could not get worse for the Germans, Russia at last got its reinforcements from Siberia, tough troops geared up, used to the cold, tanks capable of winter fighting, T-34. And air superiority.
Yeah you could say Stalin got overconfident after Moscow. The Germans won not just at Kharkov, but a crushing defensive victory at Rzhev, the fall of the Crimea, defeat outside Leningrad, and defeat again at Demyansk, which together cost _~one million_ killed and captured.
@@bskrishnamurthy7258 Out of the 10 reasons, only reason 1 stands out for me. With patience, Germany could've even come up with atomic bombs before anyone. Another reason why Germany lost the war is that it didn't have enough strength from allies. What if the Soviet had been its ally? I shiver at the thought.
Stalin had nothing to do with it. It was his fault the army was on it`s knees in the first place due to the purge of many competent officers. He refused to entertain the idea that Germany was breaking the pact and left the kremin in a nervous breakdown when they did. Yet he has a chest full of medals.
History will always judge our actions. we are meant to learn a lot from such and never let repeat its self. WW1 and WW2 are expensive experience's for man kind to learn.
What drives me nuts about Stalin is that he complained to the Allies about rushing the beginning of a second front on the western side of Europe, while he denounces many many warnings of impending German invasions and even has his own men executed for 'allowing it' to happen. Had he prepared better and actually consider the advice/warnings he received, who knows what difference it would have made...
"while he denounces many many warnings of impending German invasions" What do you think? Robert Kershaw "War Without Gerlands" "There was no information ..." In the interior of the country, units of the Red Army began to move. Endless trains, loaded with tanks, froze in anticipation of their arrival in the border zone. About 4,216 wagons with ammunition were heading along a labyrinth of railways to the border. 1,320 trains with trucks were hurrying to their destinations - and they were urgently transferred to the border. In mid-June 1941, the 63rd Rifle Corps, the 200th and 48th Rifle Divisions were en route, like many other formations of the Red Army. A gigantic cargo in the form of military cards - 200 freight cars - was waiting for its turn on the roads of the Baltic special, Kiev special and Western special military districts. The Soviet railways had never before encountered such a voluminous cargo transportation, which remained practically unnoticed for the eyes of German intelligence. All trains followed in a westerly direction ... About 170 of the total number of 230-240 Soviet divisions were concentrated in the western part of the Soviet Union, but many of them were not staffed according to wartime states. All of them were part of the first echelon of the covering armies - 56 were located directly at the border and 114 were deployed at some distance from it. Ten Soviet armies were distributed across four border military districts from north to south. The Baltic Special Military District consisted of 26 divisions of the 8th and 11th armies, including 6 tank divisions. To the south were located the 3rd, 10th and 4th armies, already belonging to the Western Special Military District, which had 36 divisions, of which 10 were tank divisions. The Kiev Special Military District (5th, 6th, 26th and 12th armies) included 56 divisions, of which 26 were tank divisions. In the south of the USSR, the Odessa Special Military District consisted of 14 divisions, including 2 tank divisions. Behind the listed districts in the north was the Leningrad Military District - the 14th, 7th and 23rd armies. Such were the forces opposing the planned German invasion on a front 1,800 kilometers long from the Baltic to the Black Sea. [11] “On June 13, 1941, we received a directive of special importance from the district headquarters, according to which our division was to change its“ place of deployment ”. What kind of place of deployment it was, it was not even reported to me, the division commander. Only in Moscow did I learn that our division was ordered to concentrate in the forests west of Idritsa. " Similar directives were sent to all divisional headquarters of the Ural Military District. Separate parts of the 112th Infantry Division began loading into trains, then it was the turn of the 98th, 153rd and 186th. All troop movements were kept in strict confidence. Similar movements took place simultaneously in all districts of the Soviet Union, in Kharkov, in the North Caucasus, in Orel, on the Volga, in the Siberian and Arkhangelsk military districts. Thus, 8 armies were formed at full strength. Five of them were immediately and in secrecy transferred to the Ukraine and Belarus. As a result of this operation, all the resources of the country's railway transport were involved, but even they were not enough for the simultaneous redeployment of troops. There were about 860,000 reservists in the heating facilities. Colonel I. Kh. Bagramyan, Chief of the Operations Department of the Headquarters of the Kiev Military District, recalls the feverish activity associated with the reassignment of the 21st Rifle Corps. Its mountain infantry and 4 rifle divisions numbered 48,000 people. The hull withstood a multi-thousand-kilometer transportation by rail from the regions of the Far East. “We had to provide living conditions for practically an entire army, and in the shortest possible time,” wrote I. Kh. Baghramyan. "At the end of May, trains began to arrive one after another." Literally all available resources were used. With the observance of appropriate secrecy measures, the troops of the first echelon of the covering armies were reinforced. And the worries associated with the arrival of a huge mass of troops were not limited only to the deployment of newly arrived units and subunits; forces were also deployed along the border areas. Under the cover of sending them to summer camps, the units moved closer and closer to the border. The 78th Rifle Division of the Kiev Special Military District "under the pretext of going to the exercises" was "moved to the border areas." Colonel Baghramyan recalls the instructions received regarding the transfer of all five corps subordinate to him to the border on June 15, 1941, confirming that "they had all the necessary equipment and weapons for the conduct of hostilities." In the Odessa military district, Major General M.V. Zakharov, chief of staff of the 9th Army, on the same day followed the progress of the transfer of the 30th and 74th rifle divisions. They "concentrated in the forests east of Balti, ostensibly to conduct exercises."
One historian describes the events, but he does not refute the myths that were created in the West about Stalin and the Soviet system. Several generations have been poisoned by propaganda "professors of history" who received their titles in this field. What if you pull one brick out of this dilapidated building?
@Rios Salvajes SIR WINSTON ,BUTOMLES,SITTING IN HIS 4TH.LEVEL UNDERGROUND SAFE,,DRINKING TWO GALLONS OF WHISKY A DAY..WRITING HIS NEXT,RADIO SPEECH..HE HAD ALREADY LOST THE WAR, ROOSEVELT WAS NOT A FOOL,HE WOULD NOT LET BRITAIN,LOSE THE WAR AND THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOANED,WERE GOING TO COST AMERICAN BANKES TO CRASH..SO THERE WAS MORE THAN ,WINNING THE WAR,AGAINST GERMANY,IN FACT,USA.PROFITED A GREAT .DEAL FROM THE WAR,AMONG THEM LENDING BANKS,BOTH SIDES,THE OIL SUPPLIED BY THE USA.THE FORD MOTORES,MANY AMERICANS GOT SUPER RICH,PROFITING FROM THE WAR,INCLUDING THE BUSH FAMILY,AND THE KENNEDY,FORD MOTORS,.ALL THE BANKERS,TO LIE ABOUT HISTORY,IS A NATURAL HABIT OF THE ANGLO SAXON ,HISTORIANS.BESIDES,AMERICA WAS A CART AND MULL OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT,COMPARING WITH THE FANTASTIC GERMAN ARMY,IN AIR,LAND AND SKY...THEY RUSHED , TO GRAB EVERY ,NATZI SCIENTIST,ENGENEARE ,ARCHITECT THEY COULD,SAVING THEM FROM NUREMBERG,AND FLYING THEM TO THE USA.'OPERATION PAPERCLIP',2600 NATZI GENERALES,HIGH NAMES,VERY CLOSE TO HITLER'S CIRCLE,WERE FLOWN RIGHT TO THE US.TO WORK ON THE ATOMIC BOMB..AMONG THEM EXPERTS,THAT CREATED,THE NERVE GAS,CICLONE..WORKING FOR THE U.S.A.MILITARY,DARPA.ALL WONDERFUL STILT PLANES,BOMBERS,ARE COPIES,OF GERMAN AIRENOTIK WONDERS.THE NUCLEAR BOMB(HYDROGEN) WAS COMPLETED,ON TIME TO USE IT ON JAPAN,TO TRY ITS POWER...THE JAPAN HAD ALREADY,SIGNED DEFEAT.
Stalin did plenty of things right, and he did seem to learn from his mistakes. Still, I'd argue that Stalin was ultimately more of an impediment than an asset to the Soviets in their struggle against the Nazis.
The USSR defeated fascism, full stop. The Americans arrived pretty late on the scene-it was Soviet forces who bore the brunt of the bloodshed of WWII, and it was the Red Army who was victorious in the greatest military encounter in human history, which was Stalingrad. Kennedy even recognized this in a speech when he declared that no other country had comparable suffering to the USSR, which endured the equivalent to the entire destruction of the country Chicago eastward.
It was the USA that supplied Russian troops food and supplies to wage war. And it was the USA that fought on 2 fronts and waged war thousands of miles away from its home. You can walk to Germany from russia. If Japan had not attacked pearl harbor Stalin would have had to keep troops in Siberia to make sure Japan did not try to invade again. How many sea battles did Russia win? Zero none nada zilch. Make no mistake the U S let the Russians take Berlin and we could have beat the Germans without the red army eventually but the red army could not beat the Germans without supplies from the U S.
Even with all reject that produces post war USA's behavior, it is an undeniable truth. Russia won because of american equipment help. Even Kruschev made a comment about that after the war.
Stalin was "utterly immoral" regarding Poland and the Baltic States...On the other hand, Churchill was obviously utterly moral regarding Greece.. Of course. Have a look of what he did there in December 1944 e. g...
What's this presenter's name? His documentaries are very good. I periodically return to them to watch them again. He's got this wonderful sense of humour and well-placed cynicism about these horrible men. I love his accents when he's quoting certain nasty characters!
Professor David Reynolds British historian and professor of international history and yes you’re right he’s very good I enjoy watching his WW2 documentaries
your statement is historically incorrect. All those nations have distinct history going back hundreds of years "way before" being part of the Russian Empire or the USSR. And even in that period you could hardly say they would identify themselves as Russian.
It was a great battle, but the "the biggest tank" battle has been debunked many times. This primarily came from Soviet sources as to hide their enormous losses during the first days of the Kursk battle. The soviets had like over 200 tanks destroyed during the first week or so. So the propaganda machine designed this narrative of a massive battle to justify such losses. When historians investigate German war archives, there is nothing to suggest there was this "massive" battle that the Soviets talk about at Prochorovka. It was all made up.
I'd love to hear more about where the huge number of railcars and required engineering talent came from just in time to move heavy industry east of Moscow as mentioned in the first few moments.
Борьба за власть встала в мирном обустроенном по новому СССР 30-х годов из Царской России как и убийство Немцова по заказу в ЦРУ МВД Колокольцева та в============== ФБР заказ дала в Пентагон====================================================== =Литвиненко так же МВД первоисточник,видно в 90-х МВД обрела особую стать................ =============================================================================
By June of 1942, Russian production of the new T-34 tank exceeded the German tank production of all models. The T-34 had a lethal combination of speed, reliability, armor, and gun that made it the most effective tank fielded in any numbers during WWII.
not to mention that germany's tank production was so unreliable that a panther became easier to produce and mantain than a panzer IV after all the armour modifications and by 1943 they were still drawing and building dumb tanks like the jagdpanzer 38t because StuG factories kept being blown up
There was a German Officer that wrote to his diaryduring the first weeks of invading Soviet Union (when there was huge territorial gains for Germany and hunders of thousands of captured Soviet soldiers) " I observe thousands of enemy soldiers without hands, eyes and other horrible wounds but I hear not a moan from them. If this is average Soviet soldier, the was is lost"
Something similar or this particular phrase was said by general Heinz Guderian, architect of Blitzkrieg and the very same general who ordered the halt of German army right outside Moscow after which battle of Moscow took place if I'm not mistaken about these supposed facts.
Who lost the war here, germany I know did and dam good badly!
lol
@@Vlad79500
The midnight knock at the door by armed government thugs, and the trip to the Lubyanka or the gulag, were horrors most of the free world did not need to fear, despite the economic privations wrought by the global depression. Nor was genocidal starvation common in the free world.
@@getbennt ..They lost both wars; what a country of losers they are!
I am obsessed with WW2 History
@@Brockinator what?
@@Brockinator what whattttt
If it’s the western version then you’re obsessed with fairytales.
@@rnsone8827 what's your version?
@@savagehadoken6828 the first question you have to ask yourself is why when the Soviets went into Poland, war wasn’t declared on them.
I cant stop watching. Wish I'd seen this in school instead of dry memorization of dates.
Oh yeah I agree with that.
@@Indoctrinate420 ÀAÀ m.
You and me both. Funny how i seek this out now but back when it was taught was bored by it.
Trouble is it does not cover churchill racist mass murder on indian people in particular.
@@johnhodge1263 but that’s not what this video about so why it would need to talk about it
These timeline documentaries are absolutely some of the best historical content ever produced. Period.
I don't like the title the Man of Steel makes him out to be Superman. He was a monster who MURDERED 6 million of his own people and never himself fought in any wars.
@@thesuncollective1475 absolutely agreed. I spat out my coffee when I read the title.
Timeline didn’t invent calling Stalin the man of steel. It’s what he was known as during the war due to the amount of steel the country produced.
The presentation of this series and the way complex issues in history are explored and explained is second to none
From what I have seen, I wholly agree.
Try Soviet Storm series
Britain may have lost some glory, the crown still reigns on the historical documentaries realm though!
any documentary with a British narrator is a good watch in my opinion
I wouldn't say they are explored, after all they are giving you the Anglo-Saxon version of events only. From what history has confirmed, Anglo-Saxon historians tend to be unreliable
My grandfather, Pavel V. Soloviov, was among those captured during the disastrous Kharkov operation. His entire tank brigade was wiped out and ceased to exist, among numerous other units - all thanks to the inadequacy and arrogance of Kremlin's high command (especially Khrustchev). He ended up spending 2.5 years in a German POW camp (where Soviets were treated very badly) before bravely escaping and rejoining the advancing Soviet forces in 1944. After the war, he was stripped of all his honors and medals and forbidden from ever using his college degree - the price he was forced to pay for having "acted as a traitor". Many others paid a much higher price: they were sent to Soviet labor camps. For the rest of his life, my grandfather drove a tractor in his small village and suffered from various ailments he had brought back from the war. He refused to talk about his wartime experiences, fearful of the NKVD and the Gulag. He passed away at the age of 51. RIP 🙏❤️🥀
This the reality of the world man......Sorry to hear it.
@@ranjanswami1288 Thanks bro 🤝
It's just incomprehensible today, what people had to go through during those times. And when it comes to POW's, the soviets were very much like the japanese. You either die or fight. If you're captured, you're a traitor, no matter what.
western people are unable to comprehend how inept stalin really was.
What Stalin did to his own country was crime, Soviets War losses may be hafved if somebody competent was in power... what comunist did to peaple who went to fight Nazis from "wrong" side was also crime,... for example many Czechoslovak pilots and crews who fight from Britain alongsite RAF got even imprisoned after returning to Czechoslovakia after Comunist came to power.
I’m obsessed with WWII history too, why?!
Our life, customs, way of thinking, politic, millions of other things are still as the results of WWII ‘s events and the way it was fought and handled.
It is amazing that the biggest event of Human history, unfortunately not too many people are aware of it
And it is disappointing that eighty years later every country is still making up its own story of it - though they were all involved.
@@henryseidel5469 isn't that history in a nutshell though?
Probably because you understand instinctively that in a sense we're still dealing with the repercussions of that war and that much of U.S. global policy and belligerence stems from that era.
It's amazing how people are so willing to give up their freedoms under these vaccine mandates. As they say, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
@@BladeJones bs
Strange how Britain considered themselves so superior than Russians but the fate of their empire depended on the Russians
Likewise the fate of the soviet Union depended on the British empire
Vice versa
Eh, more like the fate of continental Europe. They beat the Germans back on their own in the battle of Britain. Being an island (difficult to invade) and having the backing of industry in the United States, they could have held out on their own. The Soviet Union definitely was crucial in winning though as they fought continuously from 1941-45 and as slavs faced more German barbarism than anyone other than the Jews.
British superiority was mainly on the sea...
Depends on American Industry
My two uncles fought in the Polish first division under Soviet control all the way into Berlin ...my father was captured along the way sent into forced slave labor... after the war he joined up with the American army got us tickets to come West after he met my mother at a displaced persons camp dance
Can't get enough of David Reynolds documentaries.
I am amazed that Churchill is being represented as having killed less people than Stalin. He killed 3 1/2 million in one go, during the now famous Bengal famine. Both were above average men and both had their short comings. But I feel this documentary is much less unbiased than the ones we normally come across.
Ajaypal Sidhu. Are you crazy? Do you reallly expect an English historian to tell of Britains atrocities??
anyway he was greatest British politician in my opinion
I mean technically yes churchill did kill less ppl than stalin
No doubt Indians were shortchanged over the many years that India was under the British Empire. Although Churchill was probably aware of the rice shortage in Bengal I couldn't find any reference to it when I read his memoirs about WW II. It was the middle of the war and Britain was fighting for its own survival. Given that there were dire shortages of all kinds of products, I think it's reasonable to assume that Churchill put the interests of his own country ahead of any others. (Added: Now that I recall Churchill's memoirs, he had glowing praise for the Sikhs. The Sikhs made up the majority of the British Indian Army. They were Punjabis. There was another Indian army, the Free India Legion, that supported the Nazis. The fact that the Free India Legion was headed by a Bengali, Subhas Chandra Bose, may have influenced Churchill's attitude.)
He did kill less people, you animal
Real life is so much more interesting than fantasy.
N E R D A L E R T ! ! ! !
I'm agree with You!
Then how come movies make millions every year ?
Kira Krum Because most people are morons!
@Bruce Bat nope. You are clearly using riduculing logical fallacy since you cant prove me wrong.
The Communist and Bolshevik leaders took the wheat and sold it in the international markets. Russia could have fed the whole Russia and half of Europe if it was not for the crooked elite.
praise & homage to the soldiers, martyrs & victims. the bloodletting & loss of life in war should never be forgotten.
we all stand at the graveside of each and all who died. We stand there together.
We grieve together.
He was not a man of steel his Generals, Soldiers and luck won the War. He was a murderous wretch who cared only for himself.
Two f____n monsters!!!!!
my grandfather was captured and spent 4 years in the gulags of Vladivostok. I miss his stories from that period.We are not a tenth as manly as that generation was. Today if we forget our phone at home for a day we are done
My German grandfather died on the Russsian Front. On his one leave he hinted at horrible things. My uncle, 17 when captured, wasn't released until late 1949. He spent most of the time in a camp outside Leningrad. He got night blindness, and a Russian woman restored his sight by smuggling him carrots. She felt sorry for him. He learned Russian and liked the people. He said if it weren't for Stalin, he said he would have stayed. He was lucky to survive, but he was always a quiet and withdrawn guy. My grandfather was 41 when he was sent to fight (he wouldn't join the party). Soon after his son, 17. Horrible times.
A monster defeated another larger monster
*You can congratulate your uncle, he is a war criminal on whose conscience 800 thousand lives of innocent civilians, I also advise you to read what the German soldiers from the North Army Group did in Veliky Novgorod, out of 300 thousand inhabitants at the time of its liberation by the Red Army, 2,000 people remained in it , the rest were all brutally killed by German and Spanish soldiers!*
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@@UltraTotenkopf so true...its amazing how brutal they (germans) were...but Stalin was a murder of his own people
@@UltraTotenkopf war is horrible my friend. you cant blame the soldiers for the decisions of their commanders.
@@UltraTotenkopf An old man in Gomel told me 1985 about the murdering of 60000 Jews from the town.Actually fake news,they were evacuated long before the Wehrmacht arrived.Most Russians have not the slightest problems with blatant lies.
Dis mantel 1500 factories, move them and their workers and families to a new location, a thousand or more kilometers away, while the nation was under attack, re assemble and begin producing, some within weeks! That"s mind boggling even by today's standards.
*@Brian W.* _"That"s mind boggling even by today's standards."_
Actually there is a more mind boggling than that. The US dismantled over 7000 of their factories and in no time moved them to China...without their workers and families...wait I am not finished yet... after the move the US started a war, a trade war with China and then blaming and cursing her for _stealing_ American jobs and for the trade deficit in her favor ... and that the US workers lost their jobs because the Chinese opened the flood gates to the super greedy and nationless US corporations that by the way run and direct the US government. So to conclude they moved their factories to their _enemies_ camp and then started the war, *THAT"S MIND BOGGLING.*
Very impressive description of war politics.
brahim119 😂 you’re right on this
@@bl00dline360 Thanks Frankie, my comment was loaded with sarcasm I admit, but also loaded with facts. This said, *Brian W* was *ABSOLUTELY* right about the incredible and mind boggling implementation of a complex operation (logistics) of dismantling and moving thousands of factories their workers and their families behind the Ural and out of reach of the invaders. It is reported that it caused diarrhea to the half-mustached shorty 😂
@@brahim119 That took 30 years not a couple on months
I am so disappointed that the directors of this documentaries didn't even bring up Central Asian people who had a huge impact to Red Army. Millions of them died in order to defend the Soviet union, whereas it is believed that Russian people only had won the war
I believe you are correct.
Didn't know that need to research. Thanks
So? People say "British" when they refer to the entire Empire. Whether you like it or not, Central Asia was in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union claimed to be the successor state to the Russian Empire. This documentary was purely about the Stalin and his personality. There is nothing stopping you or anyone else doing a documentary on the "central Asians"
@@21silvermoon The more research one does the more things come up and change the outlook.In the future it will be possible to use artificial intelligence to know the past and the present in a better way.
It's really only been in the last few decades that the Indians and other colonies have gotten their due as well, fighting for their subjugators. I would appreciate a documentary on the minor powers of the war and their sacrifices.
Professor Reynolds- I have never posted a comment on any documentary before, but I feel absolutely compelled to do so here. Simply extraordinary work by you and your staff in bringing forward the vivid reality of how things progressed, with all the heart wrenching uncertainties every step of the way.
In particular, the way EGO (on all sides) is portrayed throughout and how it impacted how the war progressed in very real terms with alliances, conspiracy theories and the fragility of the ultimate outcome was simply expertly portrayed.
Kudos to you Sir- I am far from a scholar in the discipline of journalism but feel this is the a shining example - especially in these times of flagrantly non-objective media
Stalin "liberates" Poland from the nazis:
"Poland- Oh, you saved me!
Stalin - I would say, "under new management"
Just like America saved Italy from Nazis and Fascists'
@@mikejan2323 We did save them and if it wasn't for us they both be Communist countries today.
@@dannyv2468va2 that is good.
Luciano Silvestri. Did not the Italians change sides when their uniforms got dirty? And by the way the Soviet forces liberated Poland gfrom the Nazis, it was Churchill that offered Poland to Stalin.
@@dannyv2468va2 Well yeah since they were Partisans...Better to be communist than American puppet...
They are talking about Russians all the time, when in actuality they should talk about the Soviet people, because it wasn't only Russians suffering and fighting. The people,that suffered the most, where the Belarusian, the Baltic people and the Ukrainians. Their countries got occupied and pillaged.
It is fascinating how colonial history is praised as the great expansion by the Great British Empire, but the cruelty of it occupation is overlooked. At the same time criticising another cruel regime.
I don’t think anyone in their right mind is praising colonialism.
@@beaupeterson188 yet no significant shunning of the mass slaughter and imprisonment of African liberators.
@@beaupeterson188 yet no significant shunning of the mass slaughter and imprisonment of African liberators.
Great hypocrisy is nothing new in circles of high power.
Those previous and present colonialists has not stopped doing that.
Stalin didn't fully "get away with it" on his deathbed it is said that nobody wanted to risk upsetting him so he was left alone to die slowly,unattended. A victim of the fear he imposed on those around him.
Lol nah that's a ridiculous made up story and rumor that only useful simple minded idiots like you think are true but any real experts or historians know is ridiculous.
@@sufimuslimlion4114 SO WHAT IS THE REAL STORY?
Mark The real story is - he was found dead but some of the higher elite inner circle of Soviet Union who were mainly careerists like Khrushchev were glad to take their time to attempt to save Stalin because Stalins Soviet Union and terror and purges were almost entirely aimed at the powerful elite and threatened them - not the average worker even if he was critical of Stalin and said things which would have gotten them killed if they were powerful and among the most leadership so yeah Khrushchev and other careerists who had power but always feared Stalin would cleanse them of the party leadership - so they were much more comfortable with Stalin dead because they would inherit the collective leadership and power but wouldn’t have to worry about being watched by Stalin to see if they were becoming corrupt selfish careerists
@@sufimuslimlion4114 That is complete nonsense. The purges were also targeted at the kulaks, religous leaders and minorities. literally anyone who stalin didn't like, not to mention you are trying to make it seem like stalin only wnet after elites for benevolent reasons and not because they were a threat to his power.
Sufi Muslim Lion How immature do you have to be to make a comment like that
I read a quote somewhere, perhaps from Dr Zhivago or Dostoevsky. 'Russians have a unique ability to endure the greatest suffering.'
HP Lovecraft that was from the brilliant dostoevsky, the gulag archipelago. One of my favorite books.
Endure, possibly. Inflict, certainly.
Well Stalin certainly was an exception to that saying!
But Dostoevsky didn’t write “The Gulag Archipelago.”
Is it a "unique ability", or just the fact that they have had to suffer, mostly due to circumstances largely beyond their control, so much misfortune in the past 150 years?
I certainly wish I had Professor Reynolds for WWII History in school! His knowledge and delivery are both outstanding! When young, one doesn't really understand the significance of many historical events. But as one advances in years, history becomes more and more interesting - especially with a teacher like Professor Reynolds! . Thank you for a great video!
not all history teachers are rock-star history teachers. that's like wanting to take guitar lessons; but only from Eddie van Halen (if he was alive)
O I so agree.
-‘The monster who got away with it’ those words are so true
So was Churchill... More than 25 millions people were starved to death by England
@@rudranarayan8762 25 million you know 🤣🤣 it’s GREAT Britain by the way
@@tomjones7184 You are super-stupid and overfucked by the way
@@tomjones7184 he is right,he is talking about Bengal famine caused by Churchill in Bengal, India.
@@historyeditz8326 I’m not disputing that, Britain was at war at that time. It had more pressing matters at hand. But to say 25 million people died is pathetic.
According to Stalin's own words the resistance of Greece was so fierce that delayed the German Divisions long enough for the Russians to prepare their defense.
80 years later: Greece sold itself to EU for money/loans.
Stalin refused admit that Germany invading
He then got whole armies destroyed threw his interfering
It wasn’t until the tide had really turned that he again took tactical control again.
The man would have thrown his own mother in front of him to save himself
He was a bloody murdering tyrant before during and after the war
Unless there's video footage, it's remains a myth to trick depressed men to get off there bums and get some work done.
Some key factors, such as this, is great of you to point out.
@@seanmoran6510 Because of him the USSR won
The leader who can rally together it's people by any means always stood a chance in time of crisis and Stalin how ruthless he may be manage to do just that.
@@deesus1085 USA have invested to much in defence weapons and so without war or conflicts that will be the end of it.
The disdain Churchill places on Stalins humble upbringing is pretty disgusting
What Stalin did to his people was disgusting.
@@adrianchannelle8651 I don't the Britishs were Historically innocents .
@@adrianchannelle8651 No what Churchill did to the Indians in Bengal and other parts was disgusting.
@Alenas Kvasninas ofcourse western world always do their best propaganda to defame east anti colonialist freedom fighters or leaders.
@@adrianchannelle8651 Massively improve quality of life, teach everyone how to read, give everyone free healthcare, give everyone access to culture like classical music and theatre? How disgusting.
The organization is unbelievable. I can barely throw a meal together daily
"The most remarkable turnaround in military historty"... Which cost russia 27 million ppl.. Russia has lost more ppl than all the other nations COMBINED no matter allied or axis!!!!!
@@KP-kg2ky So what? The bottom line was to beat the Nazis or otherwise face extermination. This was a race war.
@@KP-kg2ky You're just jealous ))) And you don't see any reason why the Soviets won . Pull all the dirt in your mouth in the style of Dr. Goebbels ..just make people laugh )))
@@mythbuster4009 Stalin murdered more people than Nazis though.
@Alenas Kvasninas The difference Stalin killed millions of Soviets in the 20th Century and he killed his own people. The US and British killed their enemies and all before the 20th Century.
@Alenas Kvasninas. Surely you don't expect and answer from the descendants of those murderers.
the sheer genius of relocating everything to behind the ural mountains is mindblowing.
How Churchill can moralised millions of death of Russian described by Stalin during the dinner.
Because Churchill himself responsible for millions of such death would wise.
Churchill himself responsible for millions of death in Bengal province of India during Bengal famine of 1943. His policy was responsible for such atrocities.
But in a British documentary it will not be told.
you mean that Churchill was responsible for the failure of the Government of Bengal to admit how serious the crisis was, or for the hoarding by speculators of foodstuffs, or for the loss of food imports from Malaya, or for FDR's refusal to allow transfer of allied merchant shipping?
You do know that Churchill took food distribution out of the hands of the Bengal administration and gave to the Anglo-Indian army, or that he diverted grain shipments from Australia to India? No, of course you don't, because it doesn't fit your prejudiced agenda.
Churchill was certainly guilty of not realising that the Bengal administration were making light of the situation as it developed. Obviously, he should have done. After all, it is not that, in 1943, he had anything else on his mind, is it?
Haha they didn’t admit that. If soviets did that. They are cruel monsters. But if they did. They gave many justification. Basically propagandas.
How convenient it must be after millennia of dysfunction, malfeasance, total disregard of they're own country men vis-a-vis the caste system to blame it on one outsider. It precisely this kind of thinking that holds individuals and countries back. Take responsibility, and move forward.
Prof David Reynolds' way of presenting along with the ominous BGM makes this documentary such an entertaining watch!!!
WATCH AND LEARN, THANKS TO ALL WHO PAID THE GHASTLY PRICES YOU HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD!
This documentary is truly a masterpiece, especially the closing quote from 'Life & Fate' in the ending was truly chilling and sublime. An eloquent end to a captivating story.
With bravery and wisdom these heroes teach every human never give up.
Terrific. Children must see this lest we forget.
What? Anti Soviet propaganda? The Cold War is over
@@ryanoverstreet7721 Really? That's all you got out of this presentation? 'Cause we all know history can't repeat itself, right?
@@ryanoverstreet7721 this guy is an example of what Reynold D'Souza is saying
This kind of war will never be repeated, the whole world is connect now. The future fight will be all about climat and energy.
One thing is the Germans certainly seemed very organized and disciplined. Not saying that produced desirable outcomes, but they certainly did seem very organized.
The Germans (Prussians) had mandatory conscription for one male per family back in the 1800’s. They were expertly trained and a culture of superiority through strength was the norm. They expected to win as a world champion football team expects to win. A study by the British General Staff said they couldn’t be beat on the ground. The strategy was to blockade and let the Russians bleed.
i will clarify that is "germans", a lot of it comes from their prussian military heritage and from the leadership of many famous and skilled military leaders. it had absolutely nothing to do with the nazis, just to point that out.
@@livethefuture2492
Exactly what I thought when I saw the comment.
Politically the nazis were a mess full of corruption.
tremendous documentary. loved it. the narrator lets you into the humanness of Churchill and Stalin, in all their glory but especially into their dark sides.
Some of the comments are really inane!
Glory????
@@carlpiazza1950 you have to be able to step out of ethnocentrism to understand the perspective of the other side. Russians expect strong rulers.
but even in understanding their perceived “glory”, even Russians would bemoan Stalin’s darkside at the time of millions of them slaughtered.
We owe the Soviets a debt of gratitude for Stalingrad and the whole Eastern Front. Churchill was so pompous. He had some nerve.
@@brandmotivo More like wildly incompetent.
@@brandmotivo Yes, I agree with you. He was the perfect leader for the time.
Interesting viewpoint and in many ways I agree. The nerve you are referring to was the blood shed by those that went where his cigar pointed without him, losing an ash off it.
Did you know Churchill was in the political wilderness for 10 years. After he was voted out of Stanley Baldwins government in 1927, he was broke by 1929, the stock crash in the USA cleaned him out. He turned to US tycoon Bernard Baruch and he bailed ole Winston out. A few years later Churchill almost lost his Country manor called Chartwell, due to his lavish spending habits, expensive cigars, brandy and champagne(all while the British public was living on rations) and this time he was bailed out with £40,000(£750,000 today) by South African Gold mining magnate Henry Straikosch. Churchill then came under the influence of the Focus Group.
Well yeah. The allies waited for the russians to wear down the germans before they even thought about invading Europe. And that was only to keep Russia from taking over all of Europe.
Some historians maintain that even if the Germans had taken Moscow the ultimate victory would not have been theirs. Coming from Europe Russia is like a funnel and you enter it from the small opening. Beyond Moscow the vastness of Russia reveals itself, getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
That's called being stretched very thin; they would've been diced up eventually.
What europe does not understand about russia is russian decentralization...russian power is not in moscow like London or Paris...russia and germany gets power from their well spreaded economy...across geography
Well said.
@@jagatdave
to be fair, that would be true for most large countries. USA, and China come to mind. taking the capital is just one strategic goal, it does not guarantee victory.
what matters is crippling the enemy's ability to fight, targeting their industry and manpower, and inflicting consistent military defeats in the field through better tactics, and technology.
russia adopted the warfare tactics of mongolians and indians who favored a strategy of draging the enemy into a vast large lands to suffer from the vastness before launching a counter attack with mobilized units like horses or tanks.
anyone who would eat tree bark is a formidable enemy
or walk a thousand kilometers
As a kid I was taught what in the forest is edible; berries, mushrooms, plants etc., how to hunt and how to fish. It's like that for most kids. This knowledge can be the difference between life or death if you're stuck in a forest with no food.
and German gobs were filled with Russian boots, once again. I feel sorry for them hehe
The West is criticizing Stalin for signing a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939 to gain time. Yet no one talks about the Poles who signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1934.
Or France that had a mutual help treaty with chekoslovakia but refused to help and stop Germans from invading. Or Britain that easily gave up other countries to appease Germans.
The best historian, Professor Reynolds!
Churchill was starving millions of indians, but was appalled by stalin's treatment of rural peasants.
The Brits were incredibly racist
I mean mass murder deportation and death due to imprisonment in gulag is not the same as war time economic famine 🤷♀️
@Alenas Kvasninas Churchill's famine was a result of being at war with the Japanese, Stalin's famine was for what exactly? Don't try and talk to me about the attrocities of the British government unless you are West Indian descent like me 🇬🇾 my point was the comparisons in the comment above weren't equivalent
@@JJR0694 churchill just wanted an excuse to murder indians lol
Of course it had nothing to do with India's deeply dysfunctional government and centuries old, self imposed caste system. It so, so easy to blame outside forces rather taking responsibility for ones own corruption and malfeasance.
This is so great. From the script to the narrator and the production value. Top notch.
The narrator is a maker or breaker in such documentaries. Great work!! Love from South Africa
So original Man of Steel was Stalin not Superman lol.
Of course. Superman was invented because the Americans haven't had their own Stalin.
He was the man of steel in his own mind only,in reality he was a pock-faced,foul-speaking,barbarian with no conscience.
@@petert9110 churchill was the bigger monster and mass murderer then stalin. But the catch is that, churchill succeed to penetrate his propaganda into the brain of his people, so now he is remembered as hero. 4 million deaths in Bengal famine caused by churchill will not be forgotten.
@@petert9110 And What American "Leader" is better?, Trump carried America?. No. America is full of fraud and all your politicians steal Billions every year. Americans ignore this and just live on while their "Leaders" steal all the money.
Doctor Stalin as i guy who grew up near bengal im glad someone mentioned the hypocrisy of Churchill
This is truly a remarkable history lesson. Thank you.
what a amazing and crazy time in history
And we are in a even crazier time right now and most don't even see it.
My mother's village South of L'wow was destroyed as well as her house in Operation Barbarossa members of her family and villagers were killed... Two of her sisters ran to the Carpathian mountains and joined the resistance under Soviet control
Condoleances, may they rest in peace.
6:04 Poster says: "Stalin leads us to victory!."
Nice. I wonder why so many European leaders were so obsessed with that hand-in-waistcoat gesture while taking photo...
@@linhhoang1363 Napoleon's gesture.
The nazis were so awful that the Russian people lined up behind Stalin. That’s saying something.
*@A T.* Russians lined up behind *RUSSIA.* Stailn just happened to be the head of the state during that time. The patriotic saying of the Russians is: _"We may all die, but we will win"_ The other one is: _" We retreated and we retreated, but we ended up drinking coffee in Paris (1814) and schnapps in Berlin (1945)."_
They had no choice... there were NKVD men waiting with pistols if they didn’t. Sad that many of the people East of Germany basically had no choice of what to do.
brahim119 Сталин выиграл войну
Joseph Mountford like your capitalism
@@josephmountford2292 Это враньё вашей лживой пропаганды. Советский народ воевал за своё Социалистическое отечество и Советскую власть, в то время как Европа легла под Гитлера и работала на нацистов.
With 16 million in reserves, tenacious fighters, and good strategies by zhukov, koneiv and rokosovsky turned the war around.
These are the FACTS of case, this war was won on the EASTERN front, even western scholars admit that, only in West are children taught that the west was significant. As you have done just count the number of divisions and men in east, you get the ANSWER, like this program which treats war like a soap opera, as opposed to seeking the FACTS.
@@petergreen5337 Agree. If the allies could have opened the 2nd front 2 years ago, so many soviet lives could have been saved. They advertised their landing of 1 lakh soldiers on D-day like the greatest thing in history. On the eastern front, each battle comprised of millions of men and hundreds of thousands dead. The over-hype from the western allies was comical.
Yes, tenacious people. The title gives a lot of credit to Stalin, but didn't mention that he weakened Soviet army before the war with his purges. One can look at Soviet invasion of Finland to see how bad Soviet army was. A lot of lives was lost before Soviet army learned to fight again.
Stalin did not turn the tide of WW2. The incredible bravery and stoicism of the Russian people did. Stalin was more of a hindrance than a help to the Russian war effort .
This documentary is amazing, I wish this was around when I was in school back in early 2000s :o
school teach u nothing
I Hurd nothing of this in school....
@@jonascorreia6365 They didn't teach you English.
Phenomenal documentary this is really top draw from such a distinguished authority. Thank you for sharing.
@Min Tin Oh? Any more details for that?
If you are talking about Churchill, then yes. I agree.
It wasn't Stalin. I repeat, it wasn't Stalin. It was the Soviet People that bled dearly for years before our men and women became involved.
The people are not with their leader, and a leader is not without his people
That’s me!
Wowzer! James Bond and Josef Stalin in the same comment thread! Taking a screenshot 😀😀
Neil Allen they’re messing around, no need lol
Slime ball killing your own people cause your paranoid lol crackhead lol
What do you think of the song BACK IN USSR? It talks about you...
Stoic Saxon he didn’t kill 90 million people. He killed like 25 million
Excellent documentary!
Concise, informative and full of enlightening details.
Definitively a Must See...!
7:18 Stalin in ordinary metro stations in an air raid...that must have been extremely morale boosting. The leader is here. This must be truly the safest place.
i wonder why, even now, some historians try to paint Churchill in a good light, presenting him as an compasionnate person. We are well aware of the Bengal famine at this point, so he was a man willing to make sacrifices (in the form of other people he considered inferior)
Great documentary! I must say I really am surprised someone as knowledgable as David Reynolds would use the terms "Russia" and "Russians" so carelessly. The Soviet Union was more than just Russia and using the term Russians when Soviets should be used instead is an insult to all of the other ethnicities and Republics of the Soviet Union.
In UK english the word "Russia" or "russians" actually meant the USSR although officially the country was known as the USSR. So it's not a mistake but a generalisation.
The Soviet Union is a stripped-down part of Russia 1918 without Finland and Poland, like the Baltic states, gained independence. In 1918, the Romanians captured Bessarabia, the Poles captured western Ukraine and Belarus. For 23 years, 15 republics were created on the territory of Russia. In 1940, Stalin partially restored, but...
You will not find another name in the memoirs of historians. Nor the memoirs of German generals. They always use the word Russians. Churchill sometimes uses - Soviet Russia.
It's like drawing a parallel to the United States. California American of Italian origin... Or just American?
Fantastic commentary and documentary!
I wouldn't call Chruchill "a stauch capitalist". He was "a staunch imperialist" from everything I read.
One of the best history channels., I love the fact that of imagery, there's actual footage. Plus the Narrator is very entertaining (at least to me).
Cheers from Angola
Stalin staring down Churchill was a beauty. *never let anyone trample over you*
The Soviets had the 3 best generals: Generals Winter, Mud and Distance.
Well put!
Here, here!
@@getbennt Mussolini's quote
@@DawnOfTheDead991 thanx for the heads up on that.
@@getbennt Not an exact quote, but it was relayed by his sil Ciano
Ok, it's an English production, but even so the focus is derailed too much. The British, after all, was but a sidekick in WW II. The war was decided on the Eastern front.
I loved the narrator guy he seems very into what he's talking about, very passionate!
May this history never repeat itself 🙏
This was an absolutely brilliant watch
Interesting perspectives in this enjoyable narration and story-telling...
1. Germans at that monument of "closest to Moscow" point could not see Kremel. And it was mainly mechanized infanty which was immediatelly pummelled.
2. Huderian was pummelled at south.
3. Central front was already deplented and bogged down, incapable to advance (even if the weather didn't strike).
But seriously, WWII was won at Sevastopol and Leningrad due to huge losses and amount of forces which had to be kept there for much longer than Nazi's ever expected.
The Germans had such "good luck" at the beginning of Barbarossa invasion but off to a slow start, because of Balkans fighting. Then around October came Russia's rains and mud. German equipment bogged to a standstill. When the temperatures dropped a month later, the frozen ground solved the mud problem but the low temperatures hit the Germans due to their total unpreparedness. As if it could not get worse for the Germans, Russia at last got its reinforcements from Siberia, tough troops geared up, used to the cold, tanks capable of winter fighting, T-34. And air superiority.
You bring life to history with you stories and in-depth research! Wonderful presentation too!
Stalin was no monster. He was the hero of the 20th century.
Yeah you could say Stalin got overconfident after Moscow. The Germans won not just at Kharkov, but a crushing defensive victory at Rzhev, the fall of the Crimea, defeat outside Leningrad, and defeat again at Demyansk, which together cost _~one million_ killed and captured.
I'm really sorry for what I'm saying. It maybe offended, but the man who talks in the document looks exactly like Beria.
Beria was fatter 😂
Stalin's moving fifteen hundred factories east dwarfed even Manstein's logistic manoeuvres to retake Kharkov.
Check this history note by kids and strategical blunder made by German ua-cam.com/video/WaWb6Rh4Iqo/v-deo.html
@@pradumna2007 Sir, thank you.I have read "10 ways in which Germany could have won ww2." I think that is enough.
Something that is not well known.
@@bskrishnamurthy7258 Out of the 10 reasons, only reason 1 stands out for me. With patience, Germany could've even come up with atomic bombs before anyone. Another reason why Germany lost the war is that it didn't have enough strength from allies. What if the Soviet had been its ally? I shiver at the thought.
@@nhatnamtrinh5017 yeah but they have different Ideals, which is bound to overcome their alliance one way or another.
The British are really good at being selectively low-key snarky when they want to be.
We Indians understand that better
It’s their tone and facial expressions that make it extremely low key
Russia is absolutely amazing. I hope one day before I die I can set foot on this beautiful country. From USA
John, go by plane, but hurry, until the US(Biden) wil destroy RUSSIA.
Enroll in Us army, you got a chance with the Russian -Ukranian war😃
Stalin had nothing to do with it. It was his fault the army was on it`s knees in the first place due to the purge of many competent officers. He refused to entertain the idea that Germany was breaking the pact and left the kremin in a nervous breakdown when they did. Yet he has a chest full of medals.
History will always judge our actions. we are meant to learn a lot from such and never let repeat its self. WW1 and WW2 are expensive experience's for man kind to learn.
Let's have a WWW3 for the current generation to experience Something.All other wars are read in history.
Stalins Saviour was Fieldmarshall Zhukov. he was the genius who won the war. And after beating the Nazis, he beat the Japanese
Ummmm no. The Germans weren't "stopped" in front of Moscow. They were nearly destroyed worse than Nepoleons forces.
Myth has it, that general winter destroyed the germans.
What drives me nuts about Stalin is that he complained to the Allies about rushing the beginning of a second front on the western side of Europe, while he denounces many many warnings of impending German invasions and even has his own men executed for 'allowing it' to happen.
Had he prepared better and actually consider the advice/warnings he received, who knows what difference it would have made...
"while he denounces many many warnings of impending German invasions"
What do you think?
Robert Kershaw "War Without Gerlands"
"There was no information ..."
In the interior of the country, units of the Red Army began to move. Endless trains, loaded with tanks, froze in anticipation of their arrival in the border zone. About 4,216 wagons with ammunition were heading along a labyrinth of railways to the border. 1,320 trains with trucks were hurrying to their destinations - and they were urgently transferred to the border. In mid-June 1941, the 63rd Rifle Corps, the 200th and 48th Rifle Divisions were en route, like many other formations of the Red Army. A gigantic cargo in the form of military cards - 200 freight cars - was waiting for its turn on the roads of the Baltic special, Kiev special and Western special military districts. The Soviet railways had never before encountered such a voluminous cargo transportation, which remained practically unnoticed for the eyes of German intelligence. All trains followed in a westerly direction ...
About 170 of the total number of 230-240 Soviet divisions were concentrated in the western part of the Soviet Union, but many of them were not staffed according to wartime states. All of them were part of the first echelon of the covering armies - 56 were located directly at the border and 114 were deployed at some distance from it. Ten Soviet armies were distributed across four border military districts from north to south. The Baltic Special Military District consisted of 26 divisions of the 8th and 11th armies, including 6 tank divisions. To the south were located the 3rd, 10th and 4th armies, already belonging to the Western Special Military District, which had 36 divisions, of which 10 were tank divisions. The Kiev Special Military District (5th, 6th, 26th and 12th armies) included 56 divisions, of which 26 were tank divisions. In the south of the USSR, the Odessa Special Military District consisted of 14 divisions, including 2 tank divisions. Behind the listed districts in the north was the Leningrad Military District - the 14th, 7th and 23rd armies. Such were the forces opposing the planned German invasion on a front 1,800 kilometers long from the Baltic to the Black Sea. [11]
“On June 13, 1941, we received a directive of special importance from the district headquarters, according to which our division was to change its“ place of deployment ”. What kind of place of deployment it was, it was not even reported to me, the division commander. Only in Moscow did I learn that our division was ordered to concentrate in the forests west of Idritsa. "
Similar directives were sent to all divisional headquarters of the Ural Military District. Separate parts of the 112th Infantry Division began loading into trains, then it was the turn of the 98th, 153rd and 186th. All troop movements were kept in strict confidence. Similar movements took place simultaneously in all districts of the Soviet Union, in Kharkov, in the North Caucasus, in Orel, on the Volga, in the Siberian and Arkhangelsk military districts. Thus, 8 armies were formed at full strength. Five of them were immediately and in secrecy transferred to the Ukraine and Belarus. As a result of this operation, all the resources of the country's railway transport were involved, but even they were not enough for the simultaneous redeployment of troops. There were about 860,000 reservists in the heating facilities. Colonel I. Kh. Bagramyan, Chief of the Operations Department of the Headquarters of the Kiev Military District, recalls the feverish activity associated with the reassignment of the 21st Rifle Corps. Its mountain infantry and 4 rifle divisions numbered 48,000 people. The hull withstood a multi-thousand-kilometer transportation by rail from the regions of the Far East. “We had to provide living conditions for practically an entire army, and in the shortest possible time,” wrote I. Kh. Baghramyan. "At the end of May, trains began to arrive one after another." Literally all available resources were used.
With the observance of appropriate secrecy measures, the troops of the first echelon of the covering armies were reinforced. And the worries associated with the arrival of a huge mass of troops were not limited only to the deployment of newly arrived units and subunits; forces were also deployed along the border areas. Under the cover of sending them to summer camps, the units moved closer and closer to the border. The 78th Rifle Division of the Kiev Special Military District "under the pretext of going to the exercises" was "moved to the border areas." Colonel Baghramyan recalls the instructions received regarding the transfer of all five corps subordinate to him to the border on June 15, 1941, confirming that "they had all the necessary equipment and weapons for the conduct of hostilities." In the Odessa military district, Major General M.V. Zakharov, chief of staff of the 9th Army, on the same day followed the progress of the transfer of the 30th and 74th rifle divisions. They "concentrated in the forests east of Balti, ostensibly to conduct exercises."
One historian describes the events, but he does not refute the myths that were created in the West about Stalin and the Soviet system. Several generations have been poisoned by propaganda "professors of history" who received their titles in this field. What if you pull one brick out of this dilapidated building?
Fascinating documentary, thank you!
David Reynolds speaks with alot of assumptions about personal accounts of Stalin.
@Rios Salvajes SIR WINSTON ,BUTOMLES,SITTING IN HIS 4TH.LEVEL UNDERGROUND SAFE,,DRINKING TWO GALLONS OF WHISKY A DAY..WRITING HIS NEXT,RADIO SPEECH..HE HAD ALREADY LOST THE WAR, ROOSEVELT WAS NOT A FOOL,HE WOULD NOT LET BRITAIN,LOSE THE WAR AND THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS LOANED,WERE GOING TO COST AMERICAN BANKES TO CRASH..SO THERE WAS MORE THAN ,WINNING THE WAR,AGAINST GERMANY,IN FACT,USA.PROFITED A GREAT .DEAL FROM THE WAR,AMONG THEM LENDING BANKS,BOTH SIDES,THE OIL SUPPLIED BY THE USA.THE FORD MOTORES,MANY AMERICANS GOT SUPER RICH,PROFITING FROM THE WAR,INCLUDING THE BUSH FAMILY,AND THE KENNEDY,FORD MOTORS,.ALL THE BANKERS,TO LIE ABOUT HISTORY,IS A NATURAL HABIT OF THE ANGLO SAXON ,HISTORIANS.BESIDES,AMERICA WAS A CART AND MULL OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT,COMPARING WITH THE FANTASTIC GERMAN ARMY,IN AIR,LAND AND SKY...THEY RUSHED , TO GRAB EVERY ,NATZI SCIENTIST,ENGENEARE ,ARCHITECT THEY COULD,SAVING THEM FROM NUREMBERG,AND FLYING THEM TO THE USA.'OPERATION PAPERCLIP',2600 NATZI GENERALES,HIGH NAMES,VERY CLOSE TO HITLER'S CIRCLE,WERE FLOWN RIGHT TO THE US.TO WORK ON THE ATOMIC BOMB..AMONG THEM EXPERTS,THAT CREATED,THE NERVE GAS,CICLONE..WORKING FOR THE U.S.A.MILITARY,DARPA.ALL WONDERFUL STILT PLANES,BOMBERS,ARE COPIES,OF GERMAN AIRENOTIK WONDERS.THE NUCLEAR BOMB(HYDROGEN) WAS COMPLETED,ON TIME TO USE IT ON JAPAN,TO TRY ITS POWER...THE JAPAN HAD ALREADY,SIGNED DEFEAT.
Stalin did plenty of things right, and he did seem to learn from his mistakes. Still, I'd argue that Stalin was ultimately more of an impediment than an asset to the Soviets in their struggle against the Nazis.
I'm the boss of all gods.
yeah
The USSR defeated fascism, full stop. The Americans arrived pretty late on the scene-it was Soviet forces who bore the brunt of the bloodshed of WWII, and it was the Red Army who was victorious in the greatest military encounter in human history, which was Stalingrad. Kennedy even recognized this in a speech when he declared that no other country had comparable suffering to the USSR, which endured the equivalent to the entire destruction of the country Chicago eastward.
It was the USA that supplied Russian troops food and supplies to wage war. And it was the USA that fought on 2 fronts and waged war thousands of miles away from its home. You can walk to Germany from russia. If Japan had not attacked pearl harbor Stalin would have had to keep troops in Siberia to make sure Japan did not try to invade again. How many sea battles did Russia win? Zero none nada zilch. Make no mistake the U S let the Russians take Berlin and we could have beat the Germans without the red army eventually but the red army could not beat the Germans without supplies from the U S.
Even with all reject that produces post war USA's behavior, it is an undeniable truth. Russia won because of american equipment help. Even Kruschev made a comment about that after the war.
Why show modern video dispersed within the historic content?
Yeah even i cringed a bit at this, narration is very nice , that would have sufficed
Churchill being driven back from in a sedan did make my day.
Stalin was "utterly immoral" regarding Poland and the Baltic States...On the other hand, Churchill was obviously utterly moral regarding Greece.. Of course. Have a look of what he did there in December 1944 e. g...
What's this presenter's name? His documentaries are very good. I periodically return to them to watch them again. He's got this wonderful sense of humour and well-placed cynicism about these horrible men. I love his accents when he's quoting certain nasty characters!
Professor David Reynolds British historian and professor of international history and yes you’re right he’s very good I enjoy watching his WW2 documentaries
British people are the best at that ! Thanks for sharing sorry I dont know his name ...
I love binging on documentaries. Thanks, UA-cam.
That was an amazing documentary 👏🏻 well done, ❤ from the 🇺🇸
Hearing him calling the Soviet army Russian is truly cringeworthy. There were over 10 other nations besides Russia within the USSR
All of then were called Russia way before the term Soviet was coined.
your statement is historically incorrect. All those nations have distinct history going back hundreds of years "way before" being part of the Russian Empire or the USSR. And even in that period you could hardly say they would identify themselves as Russian.
Never forget: history is written by the victorious.
This is just one perspective of some.
39:50 no mention of the battle of Kursk ?? Really ?? After all it was the biggest tank battle, and after it the germans no longer had the initiative.
It was a great battle, but the "the biggest tank" battle has been debunked many times. This primarily came from Soviet sources as to hide their enormous losses during the first days of the Kursk battle. The soviets had like over 200 tanks destroyed during the first week or so. So the propaganda machine designed this narrative of a massive battle to justify such losses. When historians investigate German war archives, there is nothing to suggest there was this "massive" battle that the Soviets talk about at Prochorovka. It was all made up.
A slice of history whose fine presentation results for me in a greater admiration for FDR.
I'd love to hear more about where the huge number of railcars and required engineering talent came from just in time to move heavy industry east of Moscow as mentioned in the first few moments.
Борьба за власть встала в мирном обустроенном по новому СССР 30-х годов из Царской России как и убийство Немцова по заказу в ЦРУ МВД Колокольцева та в==============
ФБР заказ дала в Пентагон======================================================
=Литвиненко так же МВД первоисточник,видно в 90-х МВД обрела особую стать................
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Даже Дрож земли под МВД.
Последннее не т
Строительная мафия Разбрасывает камни Эклизиаста.
кв.59 по ул.карпинского 38-2.В СПб.Гниды конченые.
By June of 1942, Russian production of the new T-34 tank exceeded the German tank production of all models. The T-34 had a lethal combination of speed, reliability, armor, and gun that made it the most effective tank fielded in any numbers during WWII.
not to mention that germany's tank production was so unreliable that a panther became easier to produce and mantain than a panzer IV after all the armour modifications and by 1943 they were still drawing and building dumb tanks like the jagdpanzer 38t because StuG factories kept being blown up