just because they were crushed once by the nazis doesnt mean that they wont rise up again.
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Originally posted by dalemUmm, the Poles weren't just crushed by the Nazis. Your vaunted USSR abandoned the Warsaw uprising to the Nazis, then moved in and killed the leftovers themselves.
My vaunted USSR throw Nazis out of Poland. My vaunted USSR free CCamps prisoners.
Vaunted.Last edited by Prosto ILya; 28 Feb 05,, 21:40.
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Originally posted by Prosto ILyaAnd your precious West did nothing to save them.
My vaunted USSR throw Nazis out of Poland. My vaunted USSR free CCamps prisoners.
And sure, the Sovs threw the Nazis out of Poland, then enslaved Poland. So they ended up getting the Western half of Poland too after 4 years of bloody war, when they only started by splitting the country with the Nazis and taking the Eastern half. Good work.
Any other historical events you are ignorant of that you wish to opine on, tovarishch?
-dale
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I am not your tovarisch, dalem.
Originally posted by dalemAnd sure, the Sovs threw the Nazis out of Poland, then enslaved Poland.
Originally posted by dalemSo they ended up getting the Western half of Poland too after 4 years of bloody war, when they only started by splitting the country with the Nazis and taking the Eastern half. Good work.
Originally posted by dalemAny other historical events you are ignorant of that you wish to opine on
Stalin was a monster. Nobody argue with that. USSR was a country with dictatorship regime.No argues here. But it is nothing compared to Nazi Germany. And when Soviet solder compared to Nazi I prefer to be silent. Because if will speak moderators will ban me I can use quite harsh worlds. My grandgrandfather - half jew-half russian - got a bullet in West Ukraine. He never recovered, fighting not for comrade Stalin but for motherland. And now allies of SS in West Ukraine siting in watnth and wealth. Yes, USSR oppressed. Yes. Yes, Baltic Countries war under harsh control. But why those countries ,I wonder, forgot, that Hitler planning total annihilation of their people. Total and absolute annihilation. USSR never made gloves from a skin of a children (good skin. Softer than usual written in dairy of one of the nazi officer ). USSR never planning to destroy nations only because they were darker or whiter than Ariec-uber-race.
And yes USSR brought if not freedom, but at least chance to live. USSR in WW2 - is not only comrade Stalin. As USA - not only Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Last edited by Prosto ILya; 28 Feb 05,, 22:17.
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Originally posted by Prosto ILyaAnd yes USSR brought if not freedom, but at least chance to live. USSR in WW2 - is not only comrade Stalin. As USA - not only Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Bottom line is that the USSR allied with the Nazis and split up Poland, got attacked, fought back, got back Poland, killed some Poles, then enslaved half of Europe for 50 years.
Eff 'em.
-dale
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Originally posted by Officer of EngineersM21,
Those Soviet Siberian divisions were the cream of the crop. Zukhov cut his teeth with them, killing the Imperial Japanese Army's incursion into Siberia before he took his art West against Paulis and Von Manstein. At the end of the war, they smashed the IJA's Kwangtung Army in Manchuria in a matter of days.
While Patton is undoubtly one of the best Western allies' manouver generals, he was on par with Zukhov and Chuikov which meant that all three were nowhere near Kesselring, Von Manstein, and Rommel. What the Allies excel at was artillery and bombardment. Manouver was iffy. I don't think Patton could have did any better than Montgomery did. Montgomery caught the Wehrmacht by surprise in Market-Garden. The Wehrmacht was waiting for Patton.
Kursk and the Battle of the Buldge were used by the Soviets in the 50s and 60s to devise hugging tactics. They remembered that at Kursk, the airforces from both sides refrain from making ground attacks because the battle was so intertwined. In the Battle of the Buldge, the Wehrmacht kept their distance as part of their doctrine to use firepower as the decisive force. This naturally allowed ground attack aircrafts to make life a living hell for them.
Now Operation Market-Garden without question the idea was suprise, but it wasnt that suprising, the Germans blew most of the bridges the troops needed to secure and the paprdrop did not occur in one mass wave as necessary but in three waves becasue of a lack air transports. In addition, the allies knowingly sent men into a well defended area, I mean there were three SS divisions there, if they didnt get those bridges in tact and the group support was bogged down, it was a meat grinder in the making. I think Patton's worse decision is distinguishable from Market Garden.
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Originally posted by FlyingCaddyFIrst, I am suprised at the lack of appreciation you give to Heinz Guderian, the man was the father of Blitzkrieg, if Hitler did not order his Panzer Group to Kiev after Smolensk, he would be drinking his tea in Moscow. The only reason he never made Field Marshall was Hitler disliked Guderian's frank style and opinions about armored warfare. Another fact of all the units in army group central, only Guderian's men reached thier objectives in Operation Typhoon.
Originally posted by FlyingCaddyNow Operation Market-Garden without question the idea was suprise, but it wasnt that suprising, the Germans blew most of the bridges the troops needed to secure and the paprdrop did not occur in one mass wave as necessary but in three waves becasue of a lack air transports. In addition, the allies knowingly sent men into a well defended area, I mean there were three SS divisions there, if they didnt get those bridges in tact and the group support was bogged down, it was a meat grinder in the making. I think Patton's worse decision is distinguishable from Market Garden.
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JJ,
If you have no clue, it is better to can it.
What do you know of war? You are a man of the cloth. Stick to your homilies, even though that also rankles when put across out of context.
"Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
HAKUNA MATATA
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@Ray --- What am I trying to say? Simple, that the Germans were overrated! Who did they really defeat? Poland, Luxemberg, Amsterdamn, & Paris? Big deal, half those people were Nazis anyways!
Goering's Luftwaffe got destroyed by the RAF! The Royal & US Navy won the battle of the Atlantic. The Germans did well in Russia, but just for a year after Barbarossa.
The Germans built & a bunch of tanks to attack weak countries. Against strong opponents, the Nazis lost!
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Originally posted by Prosto ILyaAt the end of the War military experience of USSR armies were unmatched. The Europe will be cleansed in a matter of months. And do not forget about USSR armies in China, which defeat Quantone army. They were ready to march on.
of it's own trucks, the United States was providing the vast majority.
I remember. But rebuilding was incredibly fast. After 10 years we already put sputnik on orbit.
According to whom? At the end of war USSR has more than enough submarines with war trained crews.
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Originally posted by jon_j_ramboThe Germans built & a bunch of tanks to attack weak countries. Against strong opponents, the Nazis lost!
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Originally posted by dalemBottom line is that the USSR allied with the Nazis and split up Poland, got attacked, fought back, got back Poland, killed some Poles, then enslaved half of Europe for 50 years.
Originally posted by dalemI disagree. Anything involving the USSR in WWII was only comrade Stalin.
Originally posted by dalemI grant you that he actually starved and killed fewer of his own people directly during that time than before the war, inasmuch as he allowed his generals to run them over German mines and into German machinegun fire, so the Germans killed them instead of Uncle Joe.
Originally posted by lwarmongerand the US would have buried the Soviet Union under a flood of mass produced tanks and aircraft
Originally posted by lwarmongerOur submarine crews had far more experience than Russia's (sinking Japan's merchant fleet)
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