Russian soldiers through the eyes of the Germans

It’s not enough to kill a Russian soldier, he must also be thrown down!
Frederick the Second Great

Glory to Russian weapons knows no bounds. The Russian soldier suffered what the soldiers of the armies of other countries never tolerated and would not suffer. This is evidenced by the entries in the memoirs of soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht, in which they admired the actions of the Red Army:

“Close communication with nature allows Russians to move freely in the fog at night, through forests and swamps. They are not afraid of the dark, endless forests and cold. They are not in the wonder of winter, when the temperature drops to minus 45. A Siberian, who can be partially considered as an Asian, is even tougher, even stronger ... We already experienced this during the First World War, when we had to deal with the Siberian army corps. ”

"For a European accustomed to small territories, the distances in the East seem endless ... The horror is aggravated by the melancholic, monotonous character of the Russian landscape, which acts depressingly, especially in the dark autumn and tediously long winter. The psychological influence of this country on the average German soldier was very strong. He felt insignificant, lost in these vast expanses "

“The Russian soldier prefers hand-to-hand combat. His ability, without flinching, to endure hardships causes true surprise. Such is the Russian soldier, whom we have learned and for whom imbued respect a quarter of a century ago. ”

“It was very difficult for us to get a clear idea of ​​equipping the Red Army ... Hitler refused to believe that Soviet industrial production could be equal to German. We had little information regarding Russians tanks. We had no idea how many tanks per month Russian industry is capable of producing.

It was difficult to even get the cards, as the Russians kept them under a big secret. The maps we had were often incorrect and misleading.

We also didn’t have exact data about the combat power of the Russian army. Those of us who fought in Russia during the First World War thought that it was great, and those who did not know the new enemy were inclined to underestimate it. ”

“The behavior of the Russian troops, even in the first battles, was in striking contrast with the behavior of the Poles and the Western allies during the defeat. Even surrounded by Russians continued stubborn fighting. Where there were no roads, the Russians in most cases remained inaccessible. They have always tried to break through to the east ... Our Russian entourage has rarely been successful. ”

“From Field Marshal von Bock to the soldier, everyone hoped that we would soon march through the streets of the Russian capital. Hitler even created a special demining team, which was to destroy the Kremlin.

When we came close to Moscow, the mood of our commanders and troops suddenly changed dramatically. With surprise and disappointment, we discovered in October and early November that the defeated Russians did not cease to exist as a military force. In recent weeks, the resistance of the enemy has intensified, and the tension of battles has increased with each passing day ... ”

Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht 4 Army, General Gunter Blumentrit

“Russians don't give up. The explosion, another one, everything is quiet for a minute, and then they open fire again ... ”
“We watched the Russians with amazement. It seems that they didn’t care that their main forces were crushed ... ”
“Loaves of bread had to be chopped up with an ax. A few lucky ones managed to acquire Russian uniforms ... "
“My God, what did these Russians intend to do with us? We'll all die here! .. ”

From the memories of German soldiers

“From the very beginning, the Russians showed themselves to be first-class warriors, and our success in the first months of the war was simply explained by better preparation. Having gained combat experience, they became first-class soldiers. They fought with exceptional stubbornness, had amazing endurance ... "

Colonel-General (later Field Marshal) von Kleist

“It often happened that the Soviet soldiers raised their hands to show that they were surrendering to us, and after our infantrymen approached them, they again resorted to arms; or the wounded man feigned death, and then fired at our soldiers from the rear. ”

General von Manstein (also a future field marshal)

“It should be noted the stubbornness of individual Russian units in battle. There have been cases when the garrisons of the pillboxes blew themselves up together with the pillboxes, not wanting to surrender. ” (Writing from 24 Jun.)
"Information from the front confirms that the Russians fight everywhere until the last person ... It is striking that when seizing artillery batteries it.p.v few surrender captivity." (29 Jun.)
“Fights with Russians are extremely persistent. Only a small number of prisoners have been captured. ” (July 4)

Diary of General Halder

“The uniqueness of the country and the uniqueness of the character of the Russians lend the campaign particular specifics. The first serious opponent "

Field Marshal Brauchitsch (July 1941 of the Year)

“About a hundred of our tanks, of which about a third were T-IV, took their initial positions for delivering a counterattack. From three sides we fired at the Russian iron monsters, but all was in vain ...

Layered on the front and in depth, the Russian giants were getting closer and closer. One of them approached our tank, hopelessly stuck in a swampy pond. Without any hesitation, the black monster rode around the tank and crushed it into the dirt with its tracks.

At this point, the 150-mm howitzer arrived. While the commander of the gunners warned about the approaching tanks of the enemy, the gun opened fire, but again, to no avail.

One of the Soviet tanks approached the howitzer on 100 meters. The gunners opened fire on him and got hit - it's like lightning struck. The tank stopped. “We knocked him out,” the gunners breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, someone from the calculation of the gun screamed heart-rending: “He went again!” Indeed, the tank came to life and began to approach the gun. Another minute, and the tank's shiny metal caterpillars smashed a howitzer into the ground like a toy. Having settled down with the weapon, the tank continued on its way as if nothing had happened. ”

The commander of the 41 th Wehrmacht Tank Corps, General Ringarth

Courage is courage inspired by spirituality. The stubbornness with which the Bolsheviks defended themselves in their pillboxes in Sevastopol is akin to a certain animal instinct, and it would be a profound mistake to consider it the result of Bolshevik beliefs or upbringing. Russians have always been like that and most likely they will always remain so. ”

Josef Goebbels

Comments

[avia12005]

And where are "our" destalinizers ???

[Greyfox]

According to the memoirs of Guderian, Middeldorf, Mellenthin, Manstein and Tippelskirch

1) Hitler disturbed us. Hitler was a fool ... ac. The German soldier was rulez. The German commander was like Great Frederick, but without vicious inclinations.
2) Russians overwhelmed us with meat. The Russians had a lot of meat. The Russian soldier is a child of nature, he eats what he cannot run away from him, sleeps standing up, like a horse, and knows how to leak. The author has repeatedly witnessed how entire Russian tank armies were leaking through the front line, and nothing betrayed their presence - it would seem that yesterday, the usual artillery preparation, bombing, the Russian offensive, and suddenly once !!! - in the rear is already the Russian tank army.
3) SS sometimes went a little too far. That is, if everything was limited to the usual robberies, executions, violence and destruction that the German soldier would sometimes inflict from an excess of youthful force, much more people would accept the new order with pleasure.
4) The Russians had a T-34 tank. It was not fair. We did not have such a tank.
5) The Russians had a lot of anti-tank guns. Each soldier had an anti-tank gun - he hid with her in the pits, in the hollows of trees, in the grass, under the roots of trees.
6) The Russians had many Mongols and Turkmen. Mongols and Turkmen, backed up by the commissioners is a terrible thing.
7) The Russians had commissars. Commissars is a terrible thing. By definition. Most of the commissioners were Jews. Even the Jews. We have not destroyed our Jews in a businesslike way. Himmler was also a fool ... ac.
8) The Russians used a dishonest method - they pretended to give up, and then - RRA! and shot the German soldier in the back. Once, a Russian tank corps, pretended to surrender, shot a whole heavy tank battalion in the back.
9) The Russians killed German soldiers. In general, it was a terrible zapadlo, because honestly, it was the German soldiers who had to kill the Russians! Russians are all goats .. ly, without exception.
10) Allies betrayed us. In a sense, the Americans and the British.

[Black]

Quote: Greyfox

Russians killed German soldiers.

This is finally below the belt !!!!

But seriously, according to the recollections of our veterans, the German is a worthy rival, a good warrior. the higher the price of our victory.

[dmitreach]

Yes we are.

[Setrac]

Quote: Chen

But seriously, according to the recollections of our veterans, the German is a worthy rival, a good warrior. the higher the price of our victory.

To exaggerate the greatness of the enemy in order to exalt is an old propaganda device.
The Third Reich with its allies had more than one and a half times superiority over the USSR in people, in industrial potential it surpassed the USSR several times, had a more trained army, and what was the result? Shameful drain! In addition, the fascists killed the civilian population in the most dignified manner, robbed, raped, used slave labor ... and many more "worthy" deeds. Actually Europeans in our time have remained "worthy".

[Mohomax]

Glory to those heroes who fought for our country for the children and all of us so that there would be no domination over us but freedom. What no, but still freedom, bought by inhuman efforts

[Deathfornazism]

Where are we? Where is our dignity? and stop the Germans called fascists

[Alone]

Live in your Turkey and do not meddle in the affairs of a great country.

[zao74]

They conquered all of Europe ... And we - them.

[A. Yaga]

And I liked it:

Courage is courage inspired by spirituality. The persistence with which the Bolsheviks defended themselves in their pillboxes in Sevastopol is akin to some animal instinct, and it would be a profound mistake to consider it the result of Bolshevik beliefs or education. Russians have always been like that and most likely will always be like that»

Josef Goebbels

[Denzel13]

Yes, these words need to be written on each border post of the Russian Federation.

[VADIMKRSK]

Nobody Dares to Attack Russia! BUT GET MUCH WISHING. TO INCREASE YOUR SIGNIFICANCE IN YOUR OWN OR SENATE.

[GSH-18]

I can not add another fact told to me by my mother. They then lived with their whole family in Kerch. Everyone knows that Kerch several times passed from the Soviet troops to the Germans and vice versa. My aunt (then still a little girl) had severe inflammation of the ears and pus flowed out of them, the child cried all the time. So, my grandmother with a young aunt in her arms on the street was seen by a German military doctor, she called out-hey uterus, stop not to be afraid! He examined the child and gave them a bottle of ointment. This ointment helped a lot. Grandma also used it after the 45th in similar cases.
So that. The Germans were different.

[lyuboyan]

Such stories had to be heard more than once. Moreover, from relatives and friends, in Ukraine, Voronezh, Moscow region. I was always surprised and now, for some reason I don’t really believe it. I don’t know why, but these stories seem to me a legend. They look very much alike, like they are written off under tracing paper. Everywhere there is a small child and a kind German doctor saving him from a deadly disease. I do not affirm anything. But I doubt it.

[Maverick78]

Do not hesitate ... and not only normal doctors came across. If all Germans were Nazis, then most of us would not be. But not even the Nazis came here for living space, so they got what they deserved.

[sasha.28blaga]

Germans may be different, but fascists are the same

[Alex]

The Germans were different.

Germans may be different, but fascists are the same

The Germans, of course, were different. The more disgusting fascism will look. Sometimes you even wonder how the people of Goethe, Beethoven, Bach and Heine could think of Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka. Indeed, "the dream of reason gives birth to monsters."

[Alexey K.]

Addition to the above.
“1941 is through the eyes of the Germans. Birch crosses instead of iron "English historian Robert Kershaw.

June 21 evening

Non-commissioned officer Helmut Kolakowski recalls: “Late in the evening, our platoon was assembled in sheds and announced:“ Tomorrow we have to enter the battle with world Bolshevism. ” Personally, I was simply amazed, it was like snow on my head, but what about the non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia? All the time I recalled the issue of Deutsche Wohenschau, which I saw at home and which reported on the contract. I could not even imagine how we would go to war in the Soviet Union. ” The order of the Führer caused surprise and bewilderment of the rank and file. “You could say we were bewildered by what we heard,” admitted Lothar Fromm, a spotter. “We all, I emphasize this, were amazed and not at all ready for such a thing.” But perplexity was immediately replaced by relief from an incomprehensible and languid expectation on the eastern borders of Germany. Experienced soldiers who had captured almost all of Europe began to discuss when the campaign against the USSR would end. The words of Benno Zeizer, who was still studying for a military driver, reflect the general mood: “All this will end in some three weeks, we were told, others were more careful in their forecasts - they believed that in 2-3 months. There was one who thought that this would last a whole year, but we laughed him: “And how much did it take to deal with the Poles? And with France? Have you forgotten? ”

But not everyone was so optimistic. Erich Mende, the lieutenant from the 8th Silesian Infantry Division, recalls the conversation with his superior in these last minutes of peace. “My commander was two times older than me, and he already had to fight with the Russians near Narva in 1917, when he was a lieutenant. "Here, in these vast expanses, we will find our death like Napoleon," he did not hide pessimism ... Mende, remember this hour, it marks the end of the old Germany. "

At 3 hours and 15 minutes, the advanced German units crossed the border of the USSR. Johann Danzer, an anti-tank gunner, recalls: “On the very first day, as soon as we went on the attack, one of ours shot himself from his own weapon. Clutching a rifle between his knees, he inserted the barrel into his mouth and pressed the trigger. So for him the war ended and all the horrors associated with it. "

[Alexey K.]

June 22, Brest

The capture of the Brest Fortress was entrusted to the 45th Wehrmacht infantry division, numbering 17 thousand personnel. The garrison of the fortress - about 8 thousand. In the first hours of the battle there were reports on the successful advance of German troops and reports on the seizure of bridges and fortress structures. At 4 hours 42 minutes, "50 prisoners were taken, all in the same underwear, their war found in bunks." But by 10:50 the tone of the combat documents had changed: "The battle for the seizure of the fortress is fierce - numerous losses." Already 2 battalion commanders, 1 company commander were killed, the commander of one of the regiments was seriously wounded.

“Soon, somewhere between 5.30 and 7.30 in the morning, it became completely clear that the Russians were desperately fighting in the rear of our advanced units. Their infantry, with the support of 35–40 tanks and armored vehicles that appeared on the territory of the fortress, formed several centers of defense. Enemy snipers fired from behind trees, roofs and cellars, which caused heavy casualties among officers and junior commanders. ”

“Where the Russians managed to get out or smoke, new forces soon appeared. They crawled out of basements, houses, from sewer pipes and other temporary shelters, fired, and our losses grew steadily. ”

A summary of the Wehrmacht High Command (OKW) for June 22 reported: "It seems that the enemy, after initial confusion, begins to show increasingly stubborn resistance." The OKW chief of staff, Halder, agrees with this: “After the initial“ tetanus ”caused by the surprise of the attack, the enemy went over to active action.”

For the soldiers of the 45th division of the Wehrmacht, the beginning of the war turned out to be completely bleak: 21 officers and 290 non-commissioned officers (sergeants), not counting the soldiers, died on its very first day. In the first day of fighting in Russia, the division lost almost as many soldiers and officers as in all six weeks of the French campaign.

[Alexey K.]

About Russian soldiers

The initial idea of ​​the population of Russia was determined by the German ideology of that time, which considered the Slavs to be "subhuman." However, the experience of the first battles made adjustments to these ideas.

Major General Hoffmann von Waldau, chief of staff of the Luftwaffe command 9 days after the start of the war, wrote in his diary: "The quality level of Soviet pilots is much higher than expected ... Fierce resistance, its mass character does not correspond to our initial assumptions." This was confirmed by the first air rams. Kershaw quotes the words of one Colonel of the Luftwaffe: "Soviet pilots are fatalists, they fight to the end without any hope of victory or even survival, driven either by their own fanaticism or fear of the commissars waiting for them on earth." It is worth noting that on the first day of the war with the Soviet Union, the Luftwaffe lost up to 300 aircraft. Never before had the German Air Force suffered such large, one-time losses.

In Germany, the radio shouted that the shells of "German tanks not only set fire to, but also flashed Russian cars through and through." But the soldiers told each other about Russian tanks, which could not be pierced even by point blank shots - the shells ricocheted from the armor. Lieutenant Helmut Ritgen from the 6th Panzer Division admitted that in a clash with new and unknown Russian tanks: “... the very concept of tank warfare has changed, KV vehicles have marked a completely different level of armament, armor protection and weight of tanks. German tanks suddenly went into the category of exclusively anti-personnel weapons ... "Tanker of the 12th Panzer Division Hans Becker:" On the Eastern Front, I met people who can be called a special race. Already the first attack turned into a battle not for life, but for death. ”

The anti-tank gunner recalls what an indelible impression on him and his comrades was made by the desperate resistance of the Russians in the first hours of the war: “During the attack, we stumbled upon a light Russian T-26 tank, we immediately clicked it directly from the 37-graph paper. When we began to approach, a Russian leaned out of the hatch of the tower to the waist and opened fire on us with a pistol. It soon became clear that he was without legs, they were torn off when the tank was hit. And despite this, he fired at us with a pistol! ”

The author of the book “1941 through the Eyes of the Germans” quotes the words of an officer who served in a tank unit on the site of Army Group Center, who shared his opinion with a war correspondent, Curicio Malaparte: “He reasoned like a soldier, avoiding epithets and metaphors, limiting himself only to argumentation, directly related to the issues discussed. “We almost did not take prisoners, because the Russians always fought to the last soldier. They did not give up. They cannot be hardened with ours ... ”

The following episodes made a depressing impression on the advancing troops: after a successful breakthrough of the frontier defense, the 3rd battalion of the 18th infantry regiment of Army Group Center, numbering 800 people, was fired upon by a unit of 5 soldiers. “I did not expect anything like this,” Major Neuhof admitted to his battalion doctor, the battalion commander. “It is sheer suicide to attack the forces of the battalion with five fighters.”

In mid-November 1941, one infantry officer of the 7th Panzer Division, when his unit burst into Russian-defended positions in a village near the Lama River, described the resistance of the Red Army. “You just won’t believe this until you see it with your own eyes. The soldiers of the Red Army, even burning alive, continued to shoot from the blazing houses. "

[Alexey K.]

Winter of the 41st

The proverb “Better three French campaigns than one Russian” was quickly adopted by German troops. “Here we lacked comfortable French beds and were struck by the monotony of the area.” "The prospect of being in Leningrad turned into an endless sitting in numbered trenches."

The high losses of the Wehrmacht, the lack of winter uniforms and the unpreparedness of German equipment for military operations in the conditions of the Russian winter gradually allowed the Soviet troops to seize the initiative. For a three-week period from November 15 to December 5 1941, the Russian Air Force made 15 840 sorties, while the Luftwaffe only 3500, which further demoralized the enemy.

The situation was similar in the tank forces: Lieutenant Colonel Grampe from the headquarters of the 1st Panzer Division reported that his tanks were sky-ready due to low temperatures (minus 35 degrees). “Even the towers are jammed, optical devices are covered with hoarfrost, and machine guns are capable of firing single shots only ...” In some units, frostbite losses reached 70%.

Joseph Deck from the 71st artillery regiment recalls: “We had to chop loaves of bread with an ax. First aid packs petrified, gasoline froze, optics failed, and hands clung to metal. In the cold, the wounded died a few minutes later. A few lucky ones managed to acquire Russian uniforms taken from the corpses warmed by them. ”

Corporal Fritz Siegel wrote in his letter home on December 6: “My God, what did these Russians plan to do with us? It would be nice if up there at least they listened to us, otherwise we all will have to die here. ”

[Setrac]

Quote: Alexey K.

The high losses of the Wehrmacht, the lack of winter uniforms and the unpreparedness of German equipment for military operations in the conditions of the Russian winter gradually allowed the Soviet troops to seize the initiative.

By winter, the fighting units of the Wehrmacht lost an average of 70-80% of the personnel, and the presence or absence of warm clothes did not play a role here. In general, the reference to the cold winter does not hold water. They were going to somehow hold the territory to the Urals? The Wehrmacht was ready for winter as a natural phenomenon. The Wehrmacht was not ready for the winter to suffer such high losses.

[Denzel13]

That's right, for some reason, Western historians and memoirists believe that in the winter in the USSR only Germans and their hangers-on were freezing, only German troops were mired in the mud, in spring and autumn. They do not take into account at all that their opponents faced similar weather conditions, that is, our army. Just a dumb desire to brighten up your defeat.

[VADIMKRSK]

WHAT ARE THE GERMANS GOING TO DO IN RUSSIA? Lying on the stoves and drinking moonshine? THE CAUCASUS WITH OIL WAS NEEDED THEM. ABOUT OUR TIME SIMILAR SO SUCH ...

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Alexey K.

The high losses of the Wehrmacht, the lack of winter uniforms and the unpreparedness of German equipment for military operations in the conditions of the Russian winter gradually allowed the Soviet troops to seize the initiative. For a three-week period from November 15 to December 5 1941, the Russian Air Force made 15 840 sorties, while the Luftwaffe only 3500, which further demoralized the enemy.

1. Bro, do you, do you believe in "fairy tales about General Winter"?
2. The theme of the absence of "own" aviation in the sky during the "brutal" Soviet, are found in the Wehrmacht's memoirs from the first months of the war.

[lazy]

what is interesting, our veterans talk about German domination and our absence. why is that?

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: lazy

what is interesting, our veterans talk about German domination and our absence. why is that?

Such moments are "engraved in memory" for life ...
And someone can "sachkanut" - they did not give, they say, the damned enemy falcons to perform a feat.

[Raven]

tell me what didn’t influence, get into the Finnish how many soldiers froze in the snow

[brelok]

The 45th division ceased to exist near Brest. It was re-formed by the fall of 41.

[smile]

Greyfox
Based on my experience, I came to the conclusion that the most honest estimates are contained in diaries not taken for publication, taken from murdered Germans — a striking difference with memoirs — no Chernukh’s general characteristic of memoirs ... previously published occasionally .. if anyone has links- discard please ...

[Denzel13]

I read a certain Hans Refeld "To hell with" Great Germany "", so there are often such things like this ".... we have been continuously advancing on the West for almost a week ...". Moreover, it took place at the end of 1944. That is, even years later, these freaks find it difficult to admit on paper that it was an escape from the advancing Red Army.
I would also like to add that this pretzel wrote a diary throughout the war, but published only the part that begins in 1943, when they began to tumble over them and the whole text is directly permeated with grief about the poor and unfortunate soldiers of the SS division and peaceful German residents. About the first years of the war, he just wrote in passing that "... some of our soldiers treated the peaceful Russian residents badly" - such a desire arose to take this memoirist to Mamayev Kurgan on May 9, let him tell our veterans what it means to be "treated badly."

[rodevaan]

Quote: Greyfox

According to the memoirs of Guderian, Middeldorf, Mellenthin, Manstein and Tippelskirch

1) Hitler disturbed us. Hitler was a fool ... ac. The German soldier was rulez. The German commander was like Great Frederick, but without vicious inclinations.
2) Russians overwhelmed us with meat. The Russians had a lot of meat. The Russian soldier is a child of nature, he eats what he cannot run away from him, sleeps standing up, like a horse, and knows how to leak. The author has repeatedly witnessed how entire Russian tank armies were leaking through the front line, and nothing betrayed their presence - it would seem that yesterday, the usual artillery preparation, bombing, the Russian offensive, and suddenly once !!! - in the rear is already the Russian tank army.
3) SS sometimes went a little too far. That is, if everything was limited to the usual robberies, executions, violence and destruction that the German soldier would sometimes inflict from an excess of youthful force, much more people would accept the new order with pleasure.
4) The Russians had a T-34 tank. It was not fair. We did not have such a tank.
5) The Russians had a lot of anti-tank guns. Each soldier had an anti-tank gun - he hid with her in the pits, in the hollows of trees, in the grass, under the roots of trees.
6) The Russians had many Mongols and Turkmen. Mongols and Turkmen, backed up by the commissioners is a terrible thing.
7) The Russians had commissars. Commissars is a terrible thing. By definition. Most of the commissioners were Jews. Even the Jews. We have not destroyed our Jews in a businesslike way. Himmler was also a fool ... ac.
8) The Russians used a dishonest method - they pretended to give up, and then - RRA! and shot the German soldier in the back. Once, a Russian tank corps, pretended to surrender, shot a whole heavy tank battalion in the back.
9) The Russians killed German soldiers. In general, it was a terrible zapadlo, because honestly, it was the German soldiers who had to kill the Russians! Russians are all goats .. ly, without exception.
10) Allies betrayed us. In a sense, the Americans and the British.

- We are laughing at it! But it is precisely this way, and not otherwise, verbatim, that the dermocratic media and other horns of the West-shaped cattle are hammered together with the history of World War II and World War II! Yes, and we almost brought this to the shit-degenerates in the 90s! Only Rezuns and Sokolovs are worth it, and there was and is them - the legion!
Now it’s ridiculous, but in fact it’s scary how they can turn it into a huge herd of people by constant swotting and substitution of concepts.

[xzWhiteWolf]

Quote: Greyfox

Greyfox (3) Yesterday, 08:08 ↑
According to the memoirs of Guderian, Middeldorf, Mellenthin, Manstein and Tippelskirch

Some kind of nonsense ... The Russians had a lot of anti-guns ?? What year is this? 44-5?
At the beginning of the war, we did not have any hand-held anti-tank guns and self-propelled guns that would pierce even their groove. Just for the reason that the Germans misinformed our troops well before the war .. When "accidentally" we were beguiled with the Poles. Huge armor plates were welded onto the tanks, which could not be penetrated by our guns. Based on the stories of the fighters who fought with the Germans in this border incident, it was formulated that there was no point in creating an anti-tank gun because the armor of German tanks was too thick. And as life has shown .. Half of the German tanks were cardboard, most of them captured.

[datur]

Some kind of nonsense ... The Russians had a lot of anti-guns ?? What year is this? 44-5? --- they probably meant ptrd !!! but in general it's just banter !!!!!

[carbofo]

Quote: xzWhiteWolf

The Russians had a lot of AT guns ?? What year is this? 44-5?

It was during the initial period of the war that we had a lot of PTRs in service, by the time of the winter of 1941 there were tens of thousands of PTRs of various designs in the troops, German tanks of that time sometimes made their way even into the forehead, so the weapons were timely, as the PTRs increased their armor for suppression of firing points, pillboxes, removal of tank optics, destruction of non-armored and lightly armored vehicles.
/ The first batch of 300 ATGMs was made in October and sent to the 16th Rokossovsky Army in early November. They were first used in battle on November 16th. By December 30, 1941 17 688 ATGMs were issued, and in 1942 - 184.
/ In 1941. only 77 PTRS were produced, in 1942 - 63. After the tests on August 308, the State Defense Committee decided to take them into service.
The production of the simpler "degtyarevskoe" was adjusted faster, and in 1941 the plant in Kovrov produced 17688 anti-tank guns, and the next year - 10 times more. /http://armyrus.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=666&Itemid=2080/

[starshina78]

Remember the story "Not on the lists"? This is a story about the heroes of the Brest Fortress. It ends with the fact that German soldiers salute the Soviet soldier, who was the last defender of the fortress. This is a work of art, but in fact there were cases when the Germans buried our soldiers with honors, thereby paying tribute to courage, courage and fortitude. How our people differs from other nations can be seen in the days of severe trials and years. In no country in the world that foreigners tried to capture, there was such general opposition. People stood up to defend the Fatherland as one, young and old. Abroad, this is considered fanaticism (the Germans considered it to be communist fanaticism), and we simply love our Motherland, despite the fact that it is sometimes our stepmother. What were the Germans counting on when attacking the USSR? The fact that the people will rise up to fight the communist monster, the commissars, but the opposite happened. The people rallied around the CPSU (b). But before the war, a huge number of people suffered from repression. Probably, all the same, in the blood of the Russian people, love for the Motherland, hatred for the invaders, whoever they were. Hence, self-sacrifice, shown at the front, in the rear, courage, fortitude, courage, and even recklessness to some extent, which manifests itself in contempt for death and the enemy. Not a single army of the world had Matrosov and Gastello, a battalion of four and 28 pafilov's men, Talalikhin and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. And this small fraction, and how many feats have gone unnoticed and nameless.

[to4kavserdce]

Totally agree with you)))

[VADIMKRSK]

None of the German pilots did not go to the ram ...

[Lopatov]

This is not true.

[Vladimirets]

Quote: avia12005

And where are "our" destalinizers ???

And will you now shout glory to Comrade Stalin or glory to the Russian soldier?

[Vladimirets]

Well, what are you minus? Justify. And what about the de-stabilizers? Or is it the leader of our soldiers who taught me how to navigate in nature, to love melee, to endure frost and heat steadily, to fight to the last and blow myself up with pillboxes, i.e. to what the German warriors write about? The point is not even in relation to Stalin, he is a great figure. So where do the de-stabilizers?

[Aleks28]

Quote: Vladimirets

Well, what are you minus? Justify. And what about the de-stabilizers? Or is it the leader of our soldiers who taught me how to navigate in nature, to love melee, to endure frost and heat steadily, to fight to the last and blow myself up with pillboxes, i.e. to what the German warriors write about? The point is not even in relation to Stalin, he is a great figure. So where do the de-stabilizers?

I fully support it, Stalin himself wouldn’t have fought a lot.

[Blad_21617]

Without competent leadership and command, no bravery of the units will bring victory, most likely it will be acts of self-sacrifice. Why did the Germans shoot commissars and political instructors in the first place? because it was they who could raise all the warriors to attack. and so the bravest would have died at the beginning of the battle and the cowards would have fled. Stalin is the same "political leader" only on a national scale.

[nickname 1 and 2]

Quote: Blad_21617

without proper guidance and command no courage

do not pile everything.
we are talking about unlimited courage, stamina, heroism!
and great leadership, etc., is another song.

[SASCHAmIXEEW]

I totally agree with you, God of God, Caesar's Caesar, I wonder why they fool us for nothing, but we have something in response? For example, through the Web in their language, they would give them our memoirs of their soldiers, what they got here! So that their children and grandchildren do not think about the East, so that they can absorb "NO ROAD TO THE EAST" with their mother's milk. Or you need to scare the Main Skirmisher of the Eternal Jew from Wall Street so that they forget that there is money in nature! In general, I think the mess in the world will end when the loan interest is simplified and people begin to live honestly! What I earned, I got it !!!

[Dejavu]

Ohoho, the main thing for us is not to forget that we sacrificed ourselves not out of fear of Stalin or the political instructor, but because there were father, mother, wife Masha and 3 bark beetles on the stove under a sheepskin coat. For this they fought to the death! Nobody there yelled "For Stalin" on the battlefield, the current on the tanks was written for the video archive. And so they shouted "URAAAA, FOR THE MOTHERLAND" !!!

[carver]

Have you been there My grandfather said that they often went into battle with the slogan for Stalin, for their homeland. I tend to believe him. And in general, the pre-war life in the Union was quite good, and 37% of the population did not feel all these fears of the 99th year for sure, and they began to ascribe this coming night to Stalin only under Khrushchev.

[Akatsubasa]

Indeed, before Khrushchev, Stalin was perceived as the father of the people. Yes, contemporaries had some doubts, but absolute leaders never existed, the main thing is not this. It is not so important under what slogans our grandfathers moved forward or even great-grandfathers already came to someone - it is important that all the Soviet peoples rose together and defended their dear land and people. And what prompted them to do this is not so important.

[Denzel13]

Just like that for comparison:

1937 - the population of the USSR is about 180 million - if I am not mistaken, those sentenced to imprisonment - about 540 thousand people;

2010 of the Russian Federation, population of about 140 million people sentenced to imprisonment of about 780 thousand people.

[dddym]

1937 + 1938 - 162mln convicted by 2944879 with a total number of crimes of about 1600 thousand
2011 - 143mln convicted, including 1300 thousand people in jail with 2 million 302 thousand 168 crimes committed

[dddym]

I give more clearly.
1937 + 1938 (two years) - 162mln lived. 2944879 convicted with a total number of crimes of about 1600 thousand
if divided in half, then on average per year 1,43 million per year. 800 Thousands of Crimes.
2011 - 143 mln. Convicted, including 1300 thousand people in a pre-trial detention center with 2302168 crimes committed. All figures are taken from the "original" documents.

[vjhbc]

and where is now unlimited courage, steadfastness, heroism! there is no leadership there is no Russian people

Quote: nick 1 and 2

do not pile everything.
we are talking about unlimited courage, stamina, heroism!
and great leadership, etc., is another song.

[Vasily T.]

There is no decent leadership, I agree. But the RUSSIAN people you have in vain buried!

[Dejavu]

The Russian people lived, is alive and will live. We are cooler than cockroaches, horseradish corrode.

[A. Yaga]

Courage is courage inspired by spirituality. The persistence with which the Bolsheviks defended themselves in their pillboxes in Sevastopol is akin to some animal instinct, and it would be a profound mistake to consider it the result of Bolshevik beliefs or education. Russians have always been like that and most likely will always be like that»

Josef Goebbels

[psdf]

Starting from the department - to the marshals, the whole continuous management, which, as you know, is different.
True in the war it was more like this:

Comrade being the commissar of the fighter company of the 20th motorized rifle and machine gun battalion in the battle near the village of Vorontsovo, he replaced the killed commander and commissar of the rifle company, raised the fighters to the attack, as a result of which the enemy was knocked out of the village, having suffered heavy losses in manpower and equipment.
In the battle for the village of Makarovo comrade temporarily fulfilling the post of commissar of the 20th motorized rifle-machine gun battalion by personal example he dragged the battalion into the attack, the enemy from the village of Makarovo was knocked out.
In the area of ​​the village of Sorokino, with a company of 24 people, it repelled 4 enemy attacks with a force of up to 200 people with the support of the tank. The enemy lost up to 50 strikeouts.
In this battle comrade was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield until all attacks were repulsed. Comrade personally destroyed 17 fascists.

[pavlo]

He also didn’t run away from Moscow !!! Although he could.

[Dmitro]

What pile and what does it bring down?

It is true that without proper guidance, nothing will come of it.
And this is not “another song”, but the words of one song, and you cannot erase these words from the song. How old are you? .. I'm sure not enough.

[Dmitry_2013]

Stalin remained in history as the leader of the country, and many of those described in this article rest in peace in the earth ... So honor and praise to those who fought to the end.
PS And the article just emphasizes the steadfastness and heroism of the Russian Soldier, and not the ability or inability of the leadership to influence this.

[vjhbc]

there would be no leadership and there would not be any resilience and heroism it would all be like now the country has been set up with cancer and everybody has sundry and back and front and double and triple traction and all the people fuck

Quote: Dmitry_2013

Stalin remained in history as the leader of the country, and many of those described in this article rest in peace in the earth ... So honor and praise to those who fought to the end.
PS And the article just emphasizes the steadfastness and heroism of the Russian Soldier, and not the ability or inability of the leadership to influence this.

[mehanik27]

What does the leadership of the country have to do with it when it comes to the very beginning of the war ... a lot of the leadership has directed on June 22 in the Brest Fortress, for example (except for the regimental link) ????

[Setrac]

Quote: mehanik27

What does the leadership of the country have to do with it when it comes to the very beginning of the war ... a lot of the leadership has directed on June 22 in the Brest Fortress, for example (except for the regimental link) ????

Without diminishing the feat of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, I want to ask a question: what tactical or strategic benefit did this battle bring?

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Setrac

Without diminishing the feat of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, I want to ask a question: what tactical or strategic benefit did this battle bring?

The answer can be found in the memoirs of the same German military leaders.
The stubborn resistance of the surrounded parts of the Red Army forced the Wehrmacht command to keep combat-ready units in its rear, including armored units, which were desperately needed by the front.

[Setrac]

Quote: stalkerwalker

The answer can be found in the memoirs of the same German military leaders.
The stubborn resistance of the surrounded parts of the Red Army forced the Wehrmacht command to keep combat-ready units in its rear, including armored units, which were desperately needed by the front.

I can be mistaken, but didn’t the Romanian units block the Brest Fortress after they couldn’t take it on the move? So no VALUABLE units were detained.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Setrac

So no VALUABLE units were detained

1. I did not minus you.
2. Romanians "planted" after UNplanned BIG losses.
3. Not only the Brest Fortress pinned down the Wehrmacht units. By that time, the "Minsk pot" had already formed, and so on.

[Setrac]

oh well, here's a plus for you, sorry chtoli, they are free from me, and the previous message is another

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Setrac

oh well, here's a plus for you, sorry chtoli, they are free from me, and the previous message is another

Thank you.

[aleshka]

it is farmers in everything looking for profit or benefit, and the soldiers of the Brest Fortress simply fought as they were taught !!

[Dejavu]

Dear, you chronically carry nonsense. They haven’t regained their possessions in order to have Russia. No need to prioritize the 90s. Gone are the days. Russia comes to life and rises the spirit of the country. If this is not in you, then this is your problem. But do not dare to sow panic. Keep your point of view to yourself, otherwise you spoil the air here and do not be ashamed.

[Deniska999]

Stalin is a spiritual leader.

[vjhbc]

despite the fact that without a strong leader, a Russian herd of sheep which one kosel leads to slaughter and all this is confirmed by history. A strong leader everyone screams. The Russian people defeated.

Quote: Allex28

Quote: Vladimirets

Well, what are you minus? Justify. And what about the de-stabilizers? Or is it the leader of our soldiers who taught me how to navigate in nature, to love melee, to endure frost and heat steadily, to fight to the last and blow myself up with pillboxes, i.e. to what the German warriors write about? The point is not even in relation to Stalin, he is a great figure. So where do the de-stabilizers?

I fully support it, Stalin himself wouldn’t have fought a lot.

[Raven1972]

despite the fact that without a strong leader, a Russian herd of sheep which one ko-zel leads to slaughter

This is true everywhere, and not just ours ....

[carver]

What you wrote only says that you are a stupid ram. Any even the smallest group of people always has a leader.

[carver]

What you wrote only says that you are a stupid ram. Any even the smallest group of people always has a leader.

[se-ma]

Of course, there was an ideology, but I think the main thing is still love for the motherland.

[dddym]

I did not minus. However, I ask you to note that Stalin had a different task, if everyone rushed to the front, then who would feed these warriors? In war, everyone has different tasks, commanders tactically and strategically solve. The truth is that if Stalin had been killed, then the war would have been immediately lost. Despite the heroism and courage of the soldiers.

[Vladimirets]

Quote: dddym

However, I ask you to note that Stalin had a different task, if everyone rushed to the front, then who would feed these warriors? In war, everyone has different tasks, commanders tactically and strategically solve.

Of course, another, but the article is not about the role of Stalin in the Second World War, but about the Russian eyes of the Germans, why weave too much?

Quote: Allex28

This article shows the personal heroism of the RUSSIAN SOLDIER, not the "wise" leadership of Comrade. Stalin.

Quote: dddym

The truth is that if Stalin had been killed, then the war would have been immediately lost. Despite the heroism and courage of the soldiers.

I repeat once again: Stalin is a great historical figure, but Stalin alone would not have won anything, and after his murder it is not known what would have happened, and you immediately

Quote: dddym

The truth is

It is good when truth is revealed to man.

[dddym]

Very good! :) Let's figure it out? :))) Well, the typhoon operation, for example - Here the Germans broke through at Smolensk. Just the vultures that surrounded Stalin - they would simply have broken into his grave. And Comrade Zhukov would be the first to gladly send troops to Moscow with a new slogan - all the power of Comrade. Zhukov. Thus, those few days that were won by Comrade Stalin would be lost forever. Stalin alone is the same deceit! If he is a leader, then it cannot be otherwise and he cannot be more than one, to say the opposite, then we can assume that one soldier with a rifle defeated all of Germany. Stalin defeated TOGETHER. And we won under his leadership, try to prove the opposite.

[Vladimirets]

Quote: dddym

Let's figure it out? :)))

I do not want.

Quote: dddym

try to prove the opposite.

I do not want.
The title of the article:
"Russian soldiers through the eyes of the Germans"

About Stalin and his role elsewhere, we chop.

[Setrac]

Quote: Vladimirets

I do not want.
The title of the article:
"Russian soldiers through the eyes of the Germans"

The article should have been titled "How the Germans Shift the Responsibility for Their Shortcomings and Blunders onto the Russian People, the Russian Country and the Russian Weather."

[A. Yaga]

Quote: Setrac

Quote: Vladimirets

I do not want.
The title of the article:
"Russian soldiers through the eyes of the Germans"

The article should have been titled "How the Germans Shift the Responsibility for Their Shortcomings and Blunders onto the Russian People, the Russian Country and the Russian Weather."

pah. Like, we are alive only because the Germans are losers, and in their eyes we were cooler than the French.

[Setrac]

Quote: A. Yaga

pah. Like, we are alive only because the Germans are losers, and in their eyes we were cooler than the French.

Why we are alive does not depend on what the Germans think about it.

[Bern]

They had one mistake - crossing the border with the USSR on June 22 of the 41st.

[nickname 1 and 2]

Both I and I have such an opinion! = Stalin has nothing to do with it!

Quote: dddym

And we won under his leadership, try to prove the opposite.

And we won against his leadership!

Not the fact that he is the most! but now not about him.

And the fact that the Russians showed massive heroism in the war against fascism!

[Aleks28]

Quote: nick 1 and 2

And we won against his leadership!

Not the fact that he is the most! but now not about him.

And the fact that the Russians showed massive heroism in the war against fascism!

Well, people cannot do without the king of the grandmother Give them the king of the almighty and that’s it. But you can forget about mediocre operations by personal order. But he can be the king.

[Strezhevchanin]

Quote: Allex28

Well, people cannot do without the king of the grandmother

You probably wanted to say LEADER? National Mobilizing Leader? Even the party and the tribe have their own leader leader, well, this is obvious. I am personally interested in another question ... how did all these geyropeytsy want to conquer such territory knowing that they would have to fight in the winter ??? Notice everyone stepped on the same rake and in the end? Some climb on the ice in armor, Napoleon apparently just thought that Russia was Sochi, Hitler also thought that the Urals with the climate is visible in Africa?

[Rider]

I am personally interested in another question ... how did all these geyropeytsy want to conquer such territory knowing that they would have to fight in the winter ???

Forgive me, dear, but the Europeans did not prepare for the winter war with Russia, that the Buanopartis, the hführer, hoped to end the war not only before the frost, but even before the autumn thaw.

they forget all the time that:

Russia is not always as weak as it seems
but not as strong as he wants to seem.

Well, in general, like - an ear on clay feet.

[Setrac]

Quote: Rider

Forgive me, dear, but the Europeans did not prepare for the winter war with Russia, that the Buanopartis, the hführer, hoped to end the war not only before the frost, but even before the autumn thaw.

But did they expect to somehow keep the occupied territories? They planned to leave some (very significant) contingent, and there should have been quite a lot of winter clothes and fuel and lubricants!

[Strezhevchanin]

Quote: Rider

the Europeans did not prepare for the winter war with Russia

That's what I'm talking about! There was no plan "B" and the past battles did not teach them anything? With a trip to a country like ours, you need to think about at least 100 options. That's what the nemchur just did for ABOS. Well, Hitler was unexpected that the Rusichi would resist

[Dejavu]

Around me alone I see the Stalinists. But didn’t your Uncle Stalin rot your grandparents in the camps? My great-grandfathers both ended up there, and their children carried the cross of the children of the enemies of the people. Okay was a man who would argue.

[vladsolo56]

I am not a Stalinist, I was born and raised in Altai. So I don’t remember that in our relatives someone would be repressed, and how many friends and acquaintances I had, no one remembered such facts. I do not want to say that this was not at all. Only now there were always enough fools, and as you know, make a fool pray to God, he will break his forehead.

[rodevaan]

[quote = Allex28] [quote = nicknames 1 and 2]
Well, people can’t live without the king of the grandmother [/ quote]

- Not in the king-priest. Our country and our people, based on their mentality, should have a strong LEADER! A business executive, and a fair, uncompromising leader who could organize competent government of the country. And who it will be and what it will be called - the king, the Secretary General, or the president - it does not matter. Only such a leader will enjoy the support of the Russian people.
There is nothing to be done - this is our mentality, and it will remain so. All sorts of parliamentary and public almshouses and sickhouses, where a bunch of fat morons sit and impede government decisions - Russia's direct road to the abyss.

[Setrac]

Quote: nick 1 and 2

And we won against his leadership!

Why, then, the poor and unfortunate German generals could not win, as you say, "in spite of" Hitler's leadership?

[svp67]

Quote: nick 1 and 2

And the fact that the Russians showed massive heroism in the war against fascism!

Heroism, and even massive one, is good, but it is much better to do it with weapons, food and other equipment. And it’s difficult to overestimate the role of Stalin in organizing this ...

[Snoop]

By the way, Hitler and his entourage strongly hoped for an uprising and the overthrow of Stalin ... but alas)))

[Dmitry_2013]

During what period of the war did they hope, please specify?

[Rider]

What period of the war did they hope

at the very beginning.

about the colossus with feet of clay, it's from there.

[Dmitry_2013]

And so much hope that they stopped the offensive and were waiting for a civil war?
Do not make me laugh. This is Goebbels propaganda, nothing more.
PS if they relied on civilian, then our collaborators would be used and armed more actively than it actually was.

[Rider]

Well vashcheto calculation was not only on kolaborrrrrr ugh damn language break
well traitors that is
although he justified himself, take at least the ROA at least the policemen, although the national punitive battalions.

the calculation was that the whole scum was like a snowball.
that the government (Stalin) will not be able to keep the country from chaos and effectively organize defense.
and the military (possibly) in fear of reprisals (well, like Pavlov) will arrange a military coup.
it doesn’t matter if they want to continue the resistance later, or whether they will sign a separate peace in the likes of Brest.
time will be lost, and the defending forces will lose faith in leadership even more.
whatever you say, the "rating" of the IVS in the country was incredibly high.
and it was thanks to this that, despite colossal losses and severe defeats, it was possible to maintain a more effective management of the country.

[Proud.]

Diderot invented this "call-up" back in the 18th century. And the French ambassador Segur, having visited Russia, wrote in his memoirs: "... that if earlier Russia was only a colossus with feet of clay, then this clay was allowed to harden and it turned into bronze ".

[Rider]

Well, probably the Fuhrer did not read the Segur.

and by the way, times are changing.
do not you think that the Russian times of 1MB became somewhat different by the time of 2MB.

[DimychDV]

Not only times, but also mentality. And still, the breadth of view was not enough. For kings with a bonboy, they hunted for dozens of years, when only one sniper with Lee-Enfield would be enough. In the 41st they assembled the OMSBON, after Moscow they pulled it into guerrilla leaders and saboteurs, and after all parachute personnel in the country could gather crowds and use landing parties more widely. Sobsno, and there wasn’t any landing tactics yet. After all, there were a lot of supermen in the country - a dime a dozen, and them - in the trenches with a rifle. Yes, with a lemon for the tanks.
Today, it is also important to watch outside the box - how to confront all these contactless wars, how to call them into contact, into a fight. Or do not wait for yourself until they break up the division with a pair of ultra-precision nuclear missiles, but how to pour this division into the adversary by the collar. These are our super-powerful boats, to which the missiles were eliminated. But can’t they be riveted into landing barges? If a regiment of marines emerges from under the water somewhere in Massachusetts, then this will be a completely different reversal. They will not rake so many green berets to our black berets, they are all scattered around the bases ...

[trenkkvaz]

Quote: dddym

Very good! :) Let's figure it out? :))) Well, the typhoon operation, for example - Here the Germans broke through at Smolensk. Just the vultures that surrounded Stalin - they would simply have broken into his grave. ... Stalin defeated TOGETHER. And we won under his leadership, try to prove the opposite.

Oh, how in the 1812 year we managed without Stalin.
It should not be assumed that Stalin was surrounded by fools in the country's leadership, who without him could not have united in the face of an external enemy.

[dddym]

You read the war and the world ???? If not, read :))) Especially when the Emperor Alexander is before the people :))) And everything will fall into place :)))

[Rider]

Oh, how in the 1812 year we managed without Stalin.

but weak to you 1905-07
и
1914-16 to cite as an example?

and notice NO REPRESSIONS.

[svp67]

Quote: trenkkvaz

Oh, how in the 1812 year we managed without Stalin.

Each time has its own heroes - then there was Alexander 1

[mehanik27]

What to deal with ???? Nobody disputes the role of Stalin, but it’s not about him, but about the dedication of the Russian people (and, in principle, of all other nations that make up the community of Soviet people, with rare exceptions). The word, worse than a de-stabilizer, can only be combat the Internet hamster screaming about the role of Stalin even in the conception of cattle in the USSR. What does Stalin have to do with the recollections when speaking of the very beginning of the war and the comparison by the Germans of companies against other countries and the USSR. In general, by its courage, courage and sense of duty oennosluzhaschie parts of the border districts gave Stalin the opportunity to maintain order and to mobilize the country

[Setrac]

Quote: Vladimirets

I repeat once again: Stalin is a great historical figure, but Stalin alone would not have won anything, and after his murder it is not known what would have happened, and you immediately

However, according to your logic, Hitler did not lose alone either. Do you have any double standards? Are you not working for the State Department?

[Aleks28]

Quote: dddym

However, I ask you to note that Stalin had a different task, if everyone rushed to the front, then who would feed these warriors? In war, everyone has different tasks, commanders tactically and strategically solve. The truth is that if Stalin had been killed, then the war would have been immediately lost. Despite the heroism and courage of the soldiers.

The main "merit" of Stalin is that by the beginning of the war the Red Army was left without an experienced leadership. That is why, on the courage of the soldiers alone, they left.

[dddym]

Your answer has been taken into account - as soon as I have time I will try to provide materials "about the purge in the army by Comrade Stalin." If you are crystal clear that Stalin was just doing it like that, then no reason will convince you except the documents - if, of course, you will read them.

[ATATA]

Quote: dddym

unless of course you will read them.

Why read the documents, he draws facts from newspapers.

[Aleks28]

Quote: ATATA

Why read the documents, he draws facts from newspapers

It would be interesting to know where you get the info from? Probably you have unlimited access to the archives.

[ATATA]

Quote: Allex28

It’s interesting to know where you get the information from? Probably you have unlimited access to the archives

In order not to stir up everything, first listen to Anatoly Wasserman on this topic.

[Aleks28]

Quote: dddym

Very good!

Quote: dddym

Let's figure it out ?:

Quote: dddym

Your response has been recorded

Faithful Stalinist, judging by the comments. When will you start shooting?

[dddym]

Anyone just not "Faithful Stalinist". If you think so, then both the faithful Petrovets and the faithful Yekaterinenets, and even Kutuzovets and Suvorovets. I am just Russian. I was brought up on fairy tales that my grandmother read, I went to a school that was proud of its students - but it was not under Stalin. It hurts me when my homeland is humiliated. Stalin did the same a lot - but when we accuse him we forget to blame others - those who are worthy of this accusation. Namely, those who gave us this lesson, destroyed the country that was created by the labor and blood of my and your ancestors, and even poured mud on them. Accusing Stalin, we spit on our past and say our grandfathers are bastards, but we are soft and fluffy.

[Aleks28]

Quote: dddym

Blaming Stalin we spit on our past

No one accuses him, but stop him and glorify him.THE ONLY SIZE IN RUSSIA IS THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE.And if we didn’t have such a people, either Stalin, etc., couldn’t do anything.

[dddym]

I didn’t exalt — what did you decide — or is simply protecting a person from accusation — an exaltation? Or is there something wrong in your opinion in my logic? So correct and do not teach what I should say so that you live comfortably. Without the people, Stalin, of course, did nothing, but with the people he did what we would not have been able to do. We defeated Hitler under the leader with the party nickname Stalin and not Alex28. Sorry, but at least in this he was cooler than us.

[Aleks28]

Quote: dddym

I didn’t exalt — what did you decide — or is simply protecting a person from accusation — an exaltation?

And how then to understand it?

Quote: dddym

The truth is that if Stalin had been killed, then the war would have been immediately lost. Despite the heroism and courage of the soldiers.

[dddym]

And to understand it as it is written. Remember the real situation of the Russian front. And the situation in which Stalin was the only person able to control the Zhukovs, Khrushchevs. Zhdanov and similar cadres of the Soviet leadership. In addition, flight from Moscow and panic were prevented by the mere presence of Stalin in Moscow. If Moscow escaped, if the panic continued, the USSR would lose, for example, the transport system. Stalin did not run away and for this he bowed low to him.

[Aleks28]

Quote: dddym

Stalin did not run away and for this he bowed low to him.

Look carefully at the videos from the parade on November 7, 1941, and you will get answers to everything.

[dddym]

and what is it that I would be surprised? :))) If you think that I did not watch this parade - you are mistaken :)))

[Aleks28]

Yeah, judging by the estimates, they also noticed.

[ttttt]

You just need to understand that it is precisely the Russian people, and the Russian spirit raised Stalin to such an extent, if there were no Russian people, there would be no Stalin. Especially at that historical moment. Yes, and you will know that none of the ruling elite of that time loved the Russian people and did not care about them as Stalin did. When there was a banquet on the occasion of the Great Victory, only Iosif Vissarionovich stood up and proclaimed a toast to "the great Russian people who won this war." Everything about Stalin, and stop believing in liberal fairy tales for fledgling children's minds.

[screw cutter]

The Great Patriotic War for our people is one of the most tragic and at the same time brilliant dates in its great history. In this war, the people showed all their best sides, lived at full strength, fought and built. Our enemies are doing their best to belittle this feat worthy of the gods and titans. One of the "black myths" born by them is that the people won the war in defiance of Joseph Stalin. But if one reads articles of various kinds of spiteful critics who hate the Soviet era of our history, and study this period in a comprehensive manner, we can note a number of important points that completely refute this myth.
First, Stalin was one of the main ideological inspirers of the state industrialization process. So, in 1927, they were told the famous phrase that "we have 10 years to catch up with the developed countries, otherwise they will crush us." For this, it was necessary to suppress the strong resistance of supporters of the development of the NEP, to “tighten their belts” and turn the state into a powerful industrial power in just three incomplete five-year plans. It was already a feat. One can imagine what would have happened if the Soviet Union had gone the way of supporters of the NEP, when the mechanized armads of the Wehrmacht would have encountered an army like the Polish, without a powerful defense industry, thousands of tanks and aircraft and the ability to produce them in thousands. And all this is Stalin's merit.

[ttttt]

Quote: Allex28

Quote: dddym

Blaming Stalin we spit on our past

No one accuses him, but stop him and glorify him.THE ONLY SIZE IN RUSSIA IS THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE.And if we didn’t have such a people, either Stalin, etc., couldn’t do anything.

Or maybe it would be much more correct to say simply - "Russian people"? And then Yeltsin's racy and rushing. Under Joseph Vissarionovich, there was actually a Soviet people, and not only the Great Russians (Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians) died, but also the small peoples of our Motherland, and the Heroes of the Soviet Union received on an equal footing, including posthumously.

[Aleks28]

Quote: tttttt

Or maybe it would be much more correct to say simply - "Russian people"? And then Yeltsin's racy and rushing. Under Joseph Vissarionovich, there was actually a Soviet people, and not only the Great Russians (Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians) died, but also the small peoples of our Motherland, and the Heroes of the Soviet Union received on an equal footing, including posthumously.

Did you understand what you said? That's exactly why I wrote:RUSSIAN PEOPLE

[ttttt]

RUSSIAN PEOPLE in the Patriotic War? Hm. Explicit dysfunction.

[commoners]

THE ONLY SIZE IN RUSSIA IS THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. And if we hadn’t had such a people, neither Stalin, etc., could have done anything.

Remind me how many Germans were captured during the first months of the war, just when the leadership often lost contact with the troops. Even in the summer of 1942, when the Germans attacked no less vigorously, due to the fact that command and control was not lost, the number of prisoners taken was several times less than in the summer of 1941. This is what the most steadfast and brave soldier (people) are worth without leadership.

[ATATA]

Quote: Allex28

Faithful Stalinist, judging by the comments.

How finicky you are, maybe you do not like the word patriot?
And who are you, a faithful Khrushchevets?
You know that Khrushchev's hands are covered in blood up to the elbows, and he and his comrades like him in the field arranged these repressions. And that Stalin, for excesses in repression, transferred Khrushchev from the Moscow Regional Committee to the Kiev Regional Committee with a postscript on the resolution "Come on, I_D_I_O_T!"

[Aleks28]

Quote: ATATA

How finicky you are, maybe you do not like the word patriot?
And who are you, a faithful Khrushchevets?

So where are your documents? You are our knowledgeable one. And to be a patriot you don’t need to engage in idolatry, but you just need to love your Motherland, as it is with all its shortcomings and advantages.

[Aleks28]

Quote: ATATA

And who are you, a faithful Khrushchevets?
You know that Khrushchev's hands are covered in blood up to the elbows, and he and his comrades like him in the field arranged these repressions. And that Stalin, for excesses in repressions, transferred Khrushchev from the Moscow Regional Committee to the Kiev Regional Committee with a postscript to the resolution "Quit I_D_I_O_T!"

Did I mention the name of Khrushchev somewhere? And the fact that with him they flew into space I do not credit him, but I credit primarily to our engineers, designers ... that is. again to our people.

[Setrac]

Well, yes, Korolev without Khrushchev made a decision to build a rocket, engineers without Korolyov got down to drawings, workers without engineers built a rocket, cosmonauts without workers flew into space. So they have nothing to do with (including Gagarin), it is only the merit of the "Russian people".
As one great person said, "every mistake has a name and surname," to paraphrase I will say from myself, "every merit has a name and surname."

[ATATA]

Quote: Allex28

Stalin's main "merit" was that by the beginning of the war the Red Army was left without an experienced leadership.

Are you Blucher and Tukhachevsky considered experienced?

[Aleks28]

Quote: ATATA

Are you Blucher and Tukhachevsky considered experienced?

I will not crucify for a long time, I will indicate only one of the brigade commanders was repressed-338!

[ATATA]

Quote: Allex28

I will not crucify for a long time, I will indicate only one of the brigade commanders was repressed-338!

So what? Can you evaluate their competence? Do you know the primary documents to draw conclusions yourself? Or do you have newspaper information from journalists?

[Aleks28]

Quote: ATATA

So what? Can you evaluate their competence? Do you know the primary documents to draw conclusions yourself?

You are the sweetest nonsense. But then I have in my hands a copy of the sentence to my grandfather and an extract from rehabilitation, for me these are eloquent documents, and a good example of the legal proceedings of those years.

[ATATA]

Quote: Allex28

You are the sweetest nonsense. But then I have in my hands a copy of the sentence to my grandfather and an extract from rehabilitation, for me these are eloquent documents, and a good example of the legal proceedings of those years.

Was your grandfather a brigade commander?
If not, do not bring everything into one mess.
I have the same ancestors repressed, only because they are Germans.
But we are discussing repression against the commanders of the Red Army, and not our relatives.
I read somewhere that many of the top commanders of the Red Army in the 30s simply blossomed morally.
They had more orderlies and cooks for the household than the royal generals!
They paid for it.

[Aleks28]

Quote: ATATA

Was your grandfather a brigade commander?

No, my grandfather was an imperial officer.

Quote: ATATA

I have the same ancestors repressed, only because they are Germans.

But the Germans were affected by completely different repressions: Mass deportation and labor. Army. And this decision seems to me, though cruel, but true.

[ATATA]

Quote: Allex28

No, my grandfather was an imperial officer

Quote: Allex28

But the Germans were affected by completely different repressions: Mass deportation and labor. Army. And this decision seems to me, though cruel, but true.

What concerns you is not fair, but the mass deportation of others, when 5 out of 7 children died after being unloaded in the winter in the Kazakh steppe in winter, is this justice?
Yes, you urgently need a teacher of double standards science at the US State Department.
And honestly, after your last comment, there was a burning desire to fool you. You are a fighter for justice only in relation to yourself.

[Aleks28]

Quote: ATATA

What concerns you is not fair, but the mass deportation of others, when 5 out of 7 children died after being unloaded in the winter in the Kazakh steppe in winter, is this justice?

Read my comments carefully, there was no talk of justice, I said:

Quote: Allex28

. And this decision seems to me, though cruel, but true.

[Setrac]

Quote: Allex28

Read my comments carefully, there was no talk of justice, I said:

Isolating the former tsarist officer is motivated by the same motives as the deportation of the Germans. Moreover, your grandfather was on state support, while the deportees simply survived in the steppe with low chances of survival.

[svp67]

Quote: ATATA

So what? Can you evaluate their competence? Do you know the primary documents to draw conclusions yourself? Or do you have newspaper information from journalists?

And you carefully and thoughtfully read the list of the repressed, there are still a lot of "royal leaven", so there are many specialists, their main "fault" is that they were close to Tukhachevsky ...
http://www.rkka.ru/handbook/personal/repress/main.htm

[ATATA]

Quote: svp67

And you carefully and thoughtfully familiarize yourself with the list of repressed, there is a lot more "royal leaven",

Yes, all these "facts" are sly. Everything is upside down and upside down.
Read it here.
http://chk.forumbb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=1655
Then here.
http://redarm37.chat.ru/kombrig.htm
Count how many of the repressed were shot. Read the first link for what. And then start talking about repression.
There are only NKVD officers on the lists.
But Blucher with Tukhachevsky in the sense of repression, as they say, was taught to those who taught Polpota.

[Aleks28]

Quote: ATATA

Yes, all these "facts" are sly. Everything is upside down and upside down.

And where are the links to the source? And how can you confirm the authenticity of the above?

[ATATA]

Quote: Allex28

And where are the links to the source? And how can you confirm the authenticity of the above?

And you?
Only relatives no longer whip.

[screw cutter]

One of the myths that supports the idea of ​​“victory contrary to the system” is the myth of “decapitating the army” before the war. But what the documents say: in the years of mass repressions of the commanders who were shot, 1410 was a man of commanding personnel, not 30-100 thousand, according to “de-Stalinizers”. There were a total of 30 thousands dismissed for health reasons, political reasons, drunks and other reasons, but of these, over 12 thousands of people were able to recover, proving their “purity”. In addition, in 1938-1940, the army received 271 500 new commanders, that is, ten times more than it lost from "mass" repression. During this period, military education grew steadily: if in 1936, 13 thousand people received higher academic military education, 125 thousand people received secondary military education, then 1941 thousand commanders received academic education and 28 thousand military commanders by 206 year. As a result, we met the war with an educated army. In addition, those commanders who, during the Great Patriotic War, will become heroes, our best commanders, have advanced to the top.

Stalin perfectly learned the lessons of the First World War, the Russian Empire died due to the fact that it did not neutralize the assorted “fifth column” before the war, which eventually organized the February Revolution. The empire did not industrialize and did not introduce universal primary education. The activities of foreign agents, both German, Austrian, and supposedly "allied" - English, French, have not been stopped. A complete failure in the field of ideology, the church in society no longer had its former authority, and almost all of the intelligentsia were pro-Western, conducting subversive work against their own state. As a result - a total disaster.

That is why in 30-ies and gave a decisive battle of various kinds of destructive elements, undermining the unity of the people in the face of a common threat. That is why Stalin is so hated - he did not allow Russia to be “devoured” in 1941, preparing the country and the people for a decisive battle for survival.

[ATATA]

Quote: screw cutter

That is why in 30-ies and gave a decisive battle of various kinds of destructive elements, undermining the unity of the people in the face of a common threat. That is why Stalin is so hated - he did not allow Russia to be “devoured” in 1941, preparing the country and the people for a decisive battle for survival.

+100500

[antidote]

Screw cutter!
You famously cut all the destalinists and hesitating. A magnificent remark. Everything is clear and concrete. And hardly any of the liberalists can object to you. They will not say anything

[Dejavu]

Oh, come on! Undoubtedly, the figures for the repressed officers of the tsarist army are overstated and no one argues with this. But the fact that both my great-grandfathers, on the denunciation of neighbors, were sent one to Varkuta, the other is generally unknown where, and even the photographs were taken - this is a fact. I, God forgive me, is not a liberal, and I will never nod towards our history, they say, "Fee", but to idealize Comrade. Stalin is nonsense. Today our country needs a firm hand, which was the hand of Stalin, but not the SAME PRICE! You cannot put your own people in camps for minor offenses for 15 years for the sake of industrialization and the construction of dams and railways. You will say that this is not how the war would merge. Maybe. But surely, with his authority, it was possible to send people to all these mega projects without putting them in prisons and without shooting them in droves. I do not exclude that without Stalin in our history, we could have lost in World War II, but I can never say that this person should be praised for his great services, even though some of which were truly such. But the price of these merits is too high, don't blame me. With all this, these are not just words, but the words of a witness of what happened to my family, and not squeezes from some Khrushchev anti-Stalinist newspaper.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: dejavu

but idealize comrade Stalin is nonsense. Today our country needs a firm hand, which was the hand of Stalin, but not at the SAME PRICE!

What is scary?
And for the children walking on the street today?
And since I was 5 years old, I walked the streets, played war games with friends.
And then crime existed.

[vjatsergey]

Maybe my parents lived in another country, but (I already wrote this somewhere) during the period of my mother’s childhood and youth, and this is precisely the time of Stalin’s reign, two people were convicted (one for stealing in a general store, the other for a fight). But for my childhood and youth was planted - a brother with friends five people, two of my friends. The village, too, only time is Brezhnev. So then comes the bloody tyrant Brezhnev, they planted more?

[Cutter]

Look at the current top leadership of the army. A thief on a Thief. And correctly repressed. In any case, the lower links did not touch.

[Setrac]

Quote: Allex28

I will not crucify for a long time, I will indicate only one of the brigade commanders was repressed-338!

Judging by the number of traitors, the commanders were shot a little, the good was Stalin, his fault.

[dddym]

in general, the logic is iron - Stalin shot the experienced leadership and therefore we won the war with Germany :)))))))

[Snoop]

Aha the surviving generals defeated the Germans with fright))) The current "historians" have no logic)))
So screams of victory in spite of this bullshit.

[Aleks28]

Quote: Snoop

Aha the surviving generals with a fright defeated the Germans)))

And I will advise you to read the article.“From the very beginning, the Russians showed themselves to be first-class warriors, and our success in the first months of the war was simply explained by better preparation. Having gained combat experience, they became first-class soldiers. They fought with exceptional stubbornness, had amazing endurance ... "

Colonel-General (later Field Marshal) von KleistSo in order of familiarization.

[Rider]

Allex28

And I’ll advise you to read the article. “From the very beginning, the Russians showed themselves to be first-class warriors,

SW Alex

But what about 1MB?

I think then our ancestors fought no worse.
but the result ...

can explain how highly educated generals who have not undergone the repression of the army have managed to purge the war

and how, with the opposite result, the 2MB ended with troops muzzled by bloody gebe.

from your speeches, I see that you are a supporter of the concept "won in spite of"
for all those preaching such ideals, I have one question to which they NEVER could give at least some reasonable answer.

and so attention is a question.
if you compare the state with a locomotive (paravoz) and its head with the driver
then explain how a steam train can go contrary to the driver?

and this is still a gentle option, since comparing the state with an airplane makes the answer pointless.

[antidote]

Without an officer (general, Supreme) all valor will be meaningless, it must be so limited so as not to understand that without competent leadership
Nowhere will it cost. We had a wonderful Soviet people, selfless, hardworking, but the Gorbachevs came with the Yeltsins and prosr .. the whole country. Well, what's the use of selflessness

[Aleks28]

Quote: dddym

in general, the logic is iron - Stalin shot the experienced leadership and therefore we won the war with Germany :)))))))

No, we were beaten and beaten mercilessly for two years. In general, before entering into discussions, we should have read the article.

[dddym]

We were beaten with weapons of a new generation and not by generals. Why do you persist! We must be proud of the victories of our ancestors, and you are trying to transfer everything to our Stalinization.

[Gazprom]

Quote: dddym

We were beaten with weapons of a new generation and not by generals. Why do you persist! We must be proud of the victories of our ancestors, and you are trying to transfer everything to our Stalinization.

was this pzII a new generation? Mauser M98? 10 cm howitzer or "mallet?"

[Vladimirets]

Quote: dddym

We were beaten with new generation weapons and not generals

If it’s no secret, what kind of miracle weapon is the new generation? Messershmites with which our I-16s still fought in Spain? Maybe Czech tanks whose guns didn’t penetrate T-34 and KV armor? Or a Mauser carbine? What is the new generation?

[dddym]

Well, if you translate into the plane of the pistol, then of course nothing new. As you put it, the Germans did not manage to release the miracle weapon. But the tactics of "Blikrig" polished and put on the battlefield are the very weapons that they and Poland took and France and many others. This is not a miracle weapon, but a new tactic. The tactics of mobile warfare. Don't you think that with a sniper rifle you can stop, for example, the movement of a tank armada? The new tactics worked so perfectly that all the military achievements of practically all countries that Germany had subjugated to itself were crossed out and turned into dust. If you suddenly want to check how it works - take and play a strategy dedicated to the Second World War. On the side of Hitler and just play as the Germans did. You will be surprised at the accuracy of what was happening. How easily the Benelux countries, France and England, are destroyed, how easily Poland is conquered. And as stopping at about Moscow, this tactic slips. Anything that can kill is usually called a weapon. "Blitzkrieg" is a weapon and it is different from everything that came before, which means it is a new generation.

[Vladimirets]

Quote: dddym

But the tactics of "Blikrig" polished and put on the battlefield are the very weapons that they and Poland took and France and many others. This is not a miracle weapon, but a new tactic. The tactics of mobile warfare.

Well, you are a sly one. And who developed the blitzkrieg tactics? If as you say:

Quote: dddym

We were beaten with weapons of a new generation and not by generals.

Plus, I’ll bet you, well done, to refute your own words, and even convince me of this, it’s great.

[dddym]

Blitzkrieg tactics? A lot was invented in our military, something was taken from De Gaulle. But tactics themselves are the brainchild of Germany. And where is the refutation of my words? :)))

[Vladimirets]

Quote: dddym

Blitzkrieg tactics? A lot was invented in our military, something was taken from De Gaulle. But tactics themselves are the brainchild of Germany. And where is the refutation of my words? :)))

You will be contacted as with seeds, and you will bite until the package is over.
Well, let's do it again. You write:

Quote: dddym

We were beaten with weapons of a new generation and not by generals.

That is, it was not the generals who beat us, but the weapons of the new generation. I asked you:

Quote: Vladimirets

If it’s no secret, what kind of miracle weapon is the new generation?

And suggested that you mean technical innovations in Germany. But you weren’t a blunder and started talking about Blitzkrieg, i.e. war of a new strategy, as a type of weapon of a new generation. Pretending to accept your version with a blitzkrieg, I asked:

Quote: Vladimirets

And who developed the blitzkrieg tactics?

You said:

Quote: dddym

But tactics themselves are the brainchild of Germany.

But she is the brainchild of the German command, be it wrong. A strategy is not a weapon; you cannot distribute it to soldiers; there must be its creators and guides, that is, a command, i.e. generality. We returned to what we left:

Quote: dddym

We were not beaten by generals.

[Setrac]

Where is the logic then? Who puts dddimu pluses? And the Vladimirites cons! Confess! I promise I will laugh quietly.

[dddym]

What are you talking about ??? I promise to laugh quietly. What you didn’t like is to quote something that you’re not happy with. So, they put a plus to someone and a minus to someone is just your personal dissatisfaction.

[Setrac]

Quote: dddym

What are you talking about ??? I promise to laugh quietly. What you didn’t like is to quote something that you’re not happy with. So, they put a plus to someone and a minus to someone is just your personal dissatisfaction.

Vladimirovets described everything above, the previous five messages, why repeat one in one logical chain of the user "Vladimirovets".

[dddym]

those. nothing substantial - understand

[Setrac]

Quote: dddym

If you suddenly want to check how this works, take and play the strategies dedicated to the Second World War.

This is a bad example, it all depends on the level of artificial intelligence inherent in the game (roughly speaking), if the plot is to win easily, then the computer is not atrocious.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Vladimirets

Messershmity with which our I-16 still in Spain fought?

Who do you think took down the "chatos" from the Spanish sky?

[lazy]

In Spain, the first versions of Messer did not have a clear advantage against i-16

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: lazy

In Spain, the first versions of Messer did not have a clear advantage against i-16

Is it possible to TTX comparative?
The Messer had no clear advantage over the Yak-1. In all respects, only the MiG-3 could cope with it - but only at high altitudes.
German pilots not in vain praised and loved "Emile".

[lazy]

I’m not saying that the I-16 is better, otherwise there was no need to develop new fighters, but due to its maneuverability it could fight the Messers. ”During the Spanish Civil War, Bf 109B-1 met in the air with I-16 Type 10. The value of the specific wing loading of the German fighter was slightly lower than that of the Soviet, but the battle on turns, as a rule, was won by the Republican pilot. " this is from here http://www.airpages.ru/lw/3m_2.shtml

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: lazy

but the Republican pilot usually won the battle. "

at first ..
Due to the higher engine power, the bend was replaced by a vertical bout.
And finally.
The topic of readiness of the Red Army Air Force requires a separate study.
The fate of General Rychagov is an example of this. It was the meeting in the air of Spain I-16 and Me-109 that had to be carefully analyzed, which, it seems, did not follow.
In the "Notes of an Aircraft Designer" it can be seen between the lines.
As a result, there were attempts to constantly modernize "Yakov", "shovel" "LaGGs" into "LA".

[Setrac]

Quote: Vladimirets

If it’s no secret, what kind of miracle weapon is the new generation? Messershmites with which our I-16s still fought in Spain? Maybe Czech tanks whose guns didn’t penetrate T-34 and KV armor? Or a Mauser carbine? What is the new generation?

70% of the damage was caused by artillery, and the industry that produced shells had a decisive role. Tanks and aircraft certainly played a role, important, but not decisive.

[antidote]

I wonder who in the fall and winter of 41 threw the Germans away from Moscow and stopped near Leningrad? These are probably those whom the Germans beat mercilessly. And you are not ashamed to belittle the heroism of the Red Army in the first two years!

[Marek Rozny]

Quote: antidot

I wonder who in the fall and winter 41 threw the Germans away from Moscow

In fact, two divisions from Kazakhstan - the 316th SD from Alma-Ata and the 312th SD from Aktyubinsk stopped the German army. And they threw them away from the walls of Moscow along with divisions from the Far East.

[aleshka]

bend Comrade Marek!

[dddym]

Oh cons and two at once - cool :) But I didn’t even compose anything - I just took your words :)))

[dddym]

Mdyayayayayayaya and here a minus - apparently got it ... You forgive the old senile - not out of evil, but for the sake of conscience ...

[dddym]

Now I just got it. that I exist in the world :)))) Rude! :)))

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: dddym

Now I just got it. that I exist in the world :)))) Rude! :)))

Do not be afraid....
Everyone went through the minus one.
Rejoice that you did not run into a "group of comrades" who can get sick with ten pairs of hands.

[Aleks28]

Quote: dddym

Now I just got it. that I exist in the world :)))) Rude! :)))

Yes, calm down, you will be a general, especially since you have grown up.

[Garrin]

Quote: dddym

wink in general, the logic is iron - Stalin shot the experienced leadership and therefore we won the war with Germany :)))))))

For that, now we are not the 37th year. And in what ... OPE we stick out.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Allex28

The Red Army was left without experienced leadership. That's why the soldiers left on one courage.

Opanki!
There will not be enough space on the site if you "pull" fragments of memoirs about the quality of the military leadership of the Red Army in the first months of the war. Not only the corps commander Petrovsky, the Germans put personal grave crosses.
In order to evaluate the actions of the Red Army in the conditions of a sudden attack by Germany, one should not consider the endless counterattacks on the flank of the tank wedges of the Wehrmacht as some kind of nonsense.
Know Main Impact Direction - the dream of any commander. Remember the Kursk Bulge.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: stalkerwalker

To know the direction of the main strike is the dream of any commander. Remember the Kursk Bulge.

Do not slumber "red commissars" ...
You, my dears, at least drop the news - for what?

[antidote]

This is a lie. Former security officers and commanders of the type Tukhachevsky were mostly shot. Look at the list of all marshals and senior generals of World War II. They are some of the lieutenants who became generals during the war.
They mostly removed the riffraff. What are the names of those repressed who could be the commander in the war?

[augur]

Experienced leadership - who is this? Tukhachevsky is a major and a lover of personal kennels, or there may be an alcoholic Blucher, or there may be a thunderstorm of enemies, "the winner of the Germans" near Narva Dybenko, or Yakir, Frinovsky, Stern, etc. Stalin did the right thing, that he removed from power those who had become hungry and became dull from their holiness generals, now would do the same, there would be no Serdyukovs and others like him!

[Stalinets]

Mr. Trotskyist, you are not getting on with your head. Do not disgrace .. Well and so on ....

[Dejavu]

No, his main merit was that he first planted them, and then returned them to their place :)) It probably dawned that a little was overdone and that convicts could build roads in Magadan, and not the senior officers of the tsarist army.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: dejavu

that he planted them first

If someone doubts that foreign intelligence did not work in the territory of the pre-war USSR, that there were no recruits of a high-ranking general, officers, he was severely mistaken. Only Polish "defensiva" had a whole network of agents on the territory of Belarus, Ukraine, the European part of the USSR. K. Rokossovsky and "swept away" on the occasion of "Polish" origin. The rates of VERY RAPID advancement of the People's Commissar N. Yezhov and Marshal Kulik still raise questions like "who and how dragged them upstairs."

[SASCHAmIXEEW]

Well this is unlikely! There would be people !!! The war was Patriotic, and that says a lot! For what the Germans did on our land, and even if without Stalin, I think ours would be fierce, and it seems to me without Stalin we would stop on the Atlantic

[Dejavu]

Is not a fact. I think Zhukov would have dragged along with a couple of marshals.

[Suhov]

Quote: Vladimirets

Or is it the leader of our soldiers taught

This is taught in the Army:
Do not know how - teach
Do not want to - Let's make it!

[Uncle]

Quote: Vladimirets

Well, what are you minus?

I'm a plus.

[Mikhail3]

Minus the dastardly reception in the dispute. Contrasting things that don't really contradict one another. A person who poses questions like "have you stopped beating your wife" is extremely contemptuous. There is such a word - conscience. Russian word.

[Vladimirets]

Quote: Mikhail3

Minus the dastardly reception in the dispute. Contrasting things that don't really contradict one another. A person who poses questions like "have you stopped beating your wife" is extremely contemptuous.

Are you talking to me? Please explain what is my meanness?

[vjhbc]

despite the fact that without a strong leader, a Russian herd of sheep which alone leads to slaughter, and all this is confirmed by history, a strong leader all shout, the Russian people won and how weak so they immediately forget about the people shout and peep and traitors at the top

Quote: Vladimirets

Well, what are you minus? Justify. And what about the de-stabilizers? Or is it the leader of our soldiers who taught me how to navigate in nature, to love melee, to endure frost and heat steadily, to fight to the last and blow myself up with pillboxes, i.e. to what the German warriors write about? The point is not even in relation to Stalin, he is a great figure. So where do the de-stabilizers?

[ziqzaq]

Quote: Vladimirets

It’s not even about Stalin, he’s a great figure

Stalin rallied the people around him and this allowed him to defeat the strongest army for that time .... If such a person comes and rallies the people of Russia, all the consequences of the actions of the liberals will be overcome in two or three years, and people subconsciously feel this .... I hope that HIS return is not far off ....

[ziqzaq]

Russophobes minus set ......

[Alex]

Well, what are you minus? Justify.

Yes, somehow too lazy to open a discussion. The big boy himself must understand the role of leadership in the life of the state. Or anyway: Stalin or, for example, Gorbachev ...

[antidote]

Glory to Comrade Stalin and the Great Russian Soldier!

[smile]

Vladimirets
I did not minus ... but maybe it is not worth opposing Stalin and the fighting qualities of a Russian and Soviet soldier of a different nationality, eh? Are these mutually exclusive concepts? And your replica most likely was understood that way .. well, and the result is corresponding ..

[Vladimirets]

Quote: smile

.but maybe it is not worth opposing Stalin and the fighting qualities of a Russian and Soviet soldier of a different nationality, eh? Are these mutually exclusive concepts?

Excuse me, where did I contrast these concepts? From the very first post I say that the article is about our soldiers, without looking at and evaluating Stalin’s personality, as if not to relate to him. I haven’t singled out nationalities anywhere, our soldiers are soldiers of the Red Army.

[smile]

Vladimirets
A common example of misunderstanding is the result of communication through the clave ... I must admit, too, you initially misunderstood ...

[to4kavserdce]

Glory to Putin ahahahahaaa

[Aleks28]

Quote: avia12005

And where are "our" destalinizers ???

This article shows the personal heroism of the RUSSIAN SOLDIER, not the "wise" leadership of Comrade. Stalin.

[nickname 1 and 2]

Quote: avia12005

And where are "our" destalinizers ???

I'm here!
And I continue to argue = well, nothing to do with it!

A company died heroically in Chechnya! And that Yeltsin is "to blame" or is it thanks to his great leadership?

[Soldier]

Quote: nick 1 and 2

A company died heroically in Chechnya! And that Yeltsin is "to blame"

Still, it’s guilty that he allowed the war to begin, not at all sacred and not popular, when he declared, take sovereignty, how much you swallow. And we just pulled our strap and did the work. And this Judas is GUILTY in that he betrayed us all when in 1996 he made a “peace” with Maskhadov-Basayev’s bandits to stay for a second term. Okay, I’m Alive, and it’s a shame for the boys to tears.

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[Corsair]

Quote: avia12005

And where are "our" destalinizers ???

[Uncle]

Quote: avia12005

And where are "our" destalinizers ???

I didn’t find a word about Stalin and communism, only “Russians”!

[de klermon]

What does the de-Stalinizer have to do with it? The article is about something else: during the time of Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Peter I, Field Marshal Saltykov (winner of Frederick the Great), Rumyantsev, Suvorov, Kutuzov, Skobelev, Brusilov, Zhukov and many other prominent Russian military commanders RUSSIAN SOLDIER has always remained a RUSSIAN SOLDIER! So what there has never been anywhere but Russia, and never will be!!!

Remember the words of starley Arteniev from "Moonzund" V.S. Pikulya: "... Russia is alone and everyone needs to love it! .."!!!

[wolk71]

So who will say that the Russian soldier was forced to go into battle by force? Is it possible to force to perform feats?

[Skunk]

Quote: avia12005

And where are "our" destalinizers ???

And what does Stalin have to do with the quotes from the article? No one has ever mentioned his last name ... Therefore, there are no destalinizers There is nobody and nothing to de-stabilize.

[Dart weyder]

What did you think !? - You’re in a fairy tale!? ...... if it didn’t start again .... Europe, you are already at the genetic level afraid of fighting Russia ...- here the Yankees are still not really beaten ......

[self-propelled]

Quote: Dart Weyder

Europe you are already at the genetic level afraid of Russia

exactly only all this geyropa and for nothing Russia does not need!

[badhoy]

“My God, what did these Russians intend to do with us? We'll all die here! .. ”
This phrase must be remembered by all shit-democrats ...... ALL DYE !!!

[JonnyT]

Comments are superfluous, so to speak .... Glory to the Russian soldier !!!!
another small addition

I) "Diary" by Wilhelm Hoffmann. 267th regiment of 94th division:

26 August: “The whole city is in fire. On the orders of the Führer, the Luftwaffe put him to fire. So they need this Russian and that they would stop resistance ...
1 of September: “Are the Russians really going to fight on the very banks of the Volga? This is crazy. ”
13 September. "The Russians are fighting with the despair of wild animals, they are not captured, but they are allowed to come close and then they throw them with grenades."
16 of September: "... These are not people, but devils."

Ii) Alan Clark. "The path to Stalingrad"
Excerpts from the diary of a German soldier:
“16 of September. Our battalion, along with the tanks, attacks the elevator, from which the smoke burns wheat. They say the Russians themselves set it on fire. The battalion suffers heavy losses. 60 people remained in their mouths. It’s not people fighting in the elevator, but the devils, which neither the bullet nor the fire takes.




18 September. The fights are in the elevator itself. The Russians inside are doomed. Our commander says that the commissars ordered these people to fight to the end.
If all the buildings in Stalingrad defend like this, not one of our soldiers will return home.

20 September. The battle for the elevator continues. Russians are firing from all sides. We are sitting in the basement, you cannot get out into the street. Senior Sergeant Nushke was killed when he ran across the street. Poor thing, he has three children.

22 September. Resistance in the elevator is broken. We found the corpses of forty killed Russians. Half of them in naval uniform are sea devils. “They took him seriously wounded, who cannot speak, or pretends to be captured.”

[Alexey K.]

GLORY TO THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER!
And they won because our soldier had the RUSSIAN SPIRIT, THERE RUSSIA SHOWS. And he fought for his SANCTUES: FAMILY AND CLOSE AND FAVORITE, FOR THE HOUSE, FOR THE RUSSIAN LAND, FOR FAITH, FOR THE FATHERLAND,

[Ram chandra]

Well, you don’t need to say only RUSSIA. Add at least one word in your 100 words RUSSIA RUSSIA AND ALLIES. Like that:
"GLORY TO THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER!
And we won because our soldier had a RUSSIAN SPIRIT, THERE DOES SMELL RUSSIA. And he fought for his shrines: relatives and friends and loved ones, for home, for the russian land, for faith, for the fatherland, and allies "

[Rider]

small addition

The seventh myth. The German army did not respect its Russian opponents

Still as respected. When the Germans ran out of food and ammunition in the cauldron, one of their resisting groups contacted their division and asked what they should do.

The answer was: "Remember the Russians at the silo tower."

The story of the Russians at the silo tower was as follows.

71- Germans infantry division surrounded the warehouses of grain, which our soldiers defended. Three days after the encirclement, the Russian soldiers gave command of the radio that they had nothing to eat. To which we received the answer: “Fight and you will forget about hunger.”

Three days later, the soldiers again handed over - "We do not have water, what should we do?".

And again they received the answer: “The time has come, comrades, when food and drink will replace your mind and cartridges.”

The defenders held out for two more days, after which they transmitted the last radiogram: "We have nothing more to shoot with."

Five minutes later, the answer came: “The Soviet Union thanks you, your life was not meaningless” ...

(All the facts from the book - H. Schrether Stalingrad. The great battle through the eyes of a war correspondent, M. Tsentrpoligraf, 2007)

taken from here
http://nstarikov.ru/blog/15672

A big request to readers, explain how to make links clickable.

pliiiz.

[smile]

JonnyT
Once I came across excerpts from the text you quoted in the journal Rodina ... and I, burdock, forgot which one. If you remember, tell me where they can be found. In my opinion there should be a collection ...

[Canep]

I read somewhere on the net that Soviet troops massively surrendered in the 41st. And how do you like this:

[dddym]

City then DOG! How did they not understand when 50 people got to the bottom of Russian? He needs to go! :)))

[pensioner]

Well, when will something new on this topic appear? All this has already happened 1000 times. Somehow I came across the protocols of the interrogation of the crew of a German long-range reconnaissance officer shot down in Astrakhan at 42m. This is - yes, cool. Somewhere else to get the protocols of interrogation of prisoners. Units are posted in the internet. In a series of books about "Smersh" something was printed. I don't remember anymore. Only scattered excerpts from various sources. Where, for example, are the protocols of the interrogations of a huge number of Wehrmacht officers after the victory at Stalingrad or after Bagration? There is somewhere. Where? Well, such documents cannot be kept secret for so many years.

[Heccrbq]

I somehow posted here this link of the Hermitage professor, a participant in the Second World War
http://www.belousenko.com/books/nikulin/nikulin_vojna.htm
Here I unearthed another book about that war, "Blood on the elbow. Red Cross of the Red Army" one of the stories was written by a political worker, you don't need to read, propaganda chewing gum
http://www.likebook.ru/books/view/172064/?page=1

[wolk71]

I read the story of your professor and the opinion was that he alone was good, and the rest with a gangster mug, drunks and looters. It seems to be a Russian surname, but writes like ......

[augur]

http://www.solonin.org/docs/2
There are good documents here, though more than German ones.

[erased]

Recognizing a defeated enemy is not bad. But recognition of life is much more important, because it put everything in its place. The red banner over the Reichstag is the most important proof of the superiority of the Soviet soldier over the enemy!

[kpox]

Courage is courage inspired by spirituality .... Perseverance .... is akin to some animal instinct. The Russians have always been like that, and most likely will always be like that. ”

Most likely, most likely .....

[saveall]

Yes, the courage of a Russian soldier has always been at the highest level. How is it now? This question always torments me for some reason ... We are proud of our fathers and grandfathers, our victories - this is a great thing, but how would we behave now if such a war starts now. Wouldn’t we be ashamed then to look into the eyes of our grandfathers and fathers, even if in the next world?

[ULxaw86]

Quote: saveall

Yes, the courage of a Russian soldier has always been at the highest level. How is it now?

Need motivation! For me, this is home, family, my homeland.

[saveall]

I would like everyone to think so ... For many, this motivation now lies on different planes than the family and the Motherland.

SONG OF ALEXEI REGION
Let the bullets whistle, blood pour
May death carry grenades
We boldly move forward
We are Russian soldiers.

In us is the blood of the fathers - heroes,
And it’s our right,
We will be able to defend the honor
Or die with glory.

Do not cry for us, Holy Russia,
No tears, no need
Pray for the fallen and the living
Prayer is our reward!

[ULxaw86]

It is present. We are instilled with a foreign lifestyle! The cult of clothes ... glamor is everywhere ... promiscuous sex ... a ninth-grader will be laughed at if she is still a girl ... etc.
You see, soon the Russian soldier will refuse to go into battle without chewing gum of a glass of Pepsi

[folds]

We are instilled with a foreign lifestyle! The cult of clothes ... glamor is everywhere ... promiscuous sex ... a ninth-grader will be laughed at if she is still a girl ... and so on

"Jeans, sneakers, a fashionable gadget, Internet access, everything that is needed for those who are only 20 years old" - a cool broadcast, so funny ...

[Alexey K.]

Don't be afraid - don't be ashamed. Remember at least the 6th company of the Pskov paratroopers who died in the Argun gorge and did not let the enemy pass, the submariners of the Kursk nuclear submarine who died in the exercises and many other heroes.

[snow779]

Quote: Vladimirets

Quote: avia12005

And where are "our" destalinizers ???

And will you now shout glory to Comrade Stalin or glory to the Russian soldier?

MANDATORY !!!

[ed65b]

Or maybe there were no interrogations. What distracting the next people, they interrogated the top, led by the pauls, and that's enough. What an ordinary and a non-commissioned soldier in the trench can know more than the field marshal. And the number of prisoners was great. Feed everyone, treat, place, stage, protect. and then interrogations, interrogations. therefore, memories often come from letters and self-written diaries.

[smile]

ed65b
No, interrogations were based on them, as well as letters, diaries, various reports were compiled. which were actively used. Moreover, a significant array of source materials has been preserved.

[cachekmosa]

Thank you for the article. cool, and about how things are now go to the site http://www.warheroes.ru/ and read about guys who have years of death after 2000 and who were under twenty

[NKVD]

Daaaaa solidly crap Stolzhenitsyn Stalin’s army and country. It was the same as crap in the camps. Obviously he was not one of those about whom the article. Stalin was great, he brought up the army and people. He didn’t rob his country like the current democrats.

[smile]

NKVD
Solzhenitsyn speaks a last name, from the word to lie. What authenticity can there be in really disruptive literature ...

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: smile

What authenticity can there be in really disruptive literature ...

Yeah ...
Especially about the cries of Yaroslavl in Russian villages when the Magyar garrison left them ...
What would the devils and in the next world "love" as the Hungarians our prisoners and our civilian population ...

[pinecone]

Historically, the stubbornness and stamina of the Russian soldier was based on the Russian village. To date, the foundation has been undermined. Employees of shopping and entertainment centers and sales managers are not the best contingent for staffing the army.

[Strashila]

Bravery is courage inspired by spirituality. The persistence with which the Bolsheviks defended themselves in their bunkers in Sevastopol is akin to some animal instinct, and it would be a profound mistake to consider it the result of Bolshevik beliefs or education. Russians have always been like that and most likely will always be like that»

Josef Goebbels

Not everything must be banned from Izi

[Drappier]

Unfortunately, mercenary is another smith who forged the definition of a Russian soldier and as always, the hammer from the anvil bounced into his forehead ...

[Ascetic]

Quote: Drapper

Unfortunately, merchandise is another smith who forged the definition of a Russian soldier and, as always, he bounced the hammer from the anvil into his forehead ...

Well said .. Worthy of the aphorisms of the Great .. +

[Drappier]

This is from the heart, a momentary turbidity, I just both grandfathers fought, one in Stalingrad, left without legs at 17, the other in the same 17 years weighing 40 kilos from Buchenwald went to the ranks of the Red Army ...

[pensioner]

Quote: Drapper

Unfortunately, merchandise is another smith who forged the definition of a Russian soldier and, as always, he bounced the hammer from the anvil into his forehead ...

Well said. I will remember.

[Drappier]

I came up with it, honestly) thanks.

[Raven1972]

Can I use it? The phrase really hurt ..... +++++++++++++++++++

[Drappier]

Yes, thanks, did not expect.

[Roll]

The main merit of Stalin, that he prepared the country for war, the methods were cruel, but effective. Collective farms and industry provided the conditions for victory. The new generation that emerged was second to none in the sense of military training (all for airplanes, the work of DOSEAF), nor ideological. As for the execution of executives. France did not shoot its cadres and nevertheless surrendered in a couple of weeks, although it surpassed the Nazi forces by many, and unlike the USSR, which was ready only for attack, France was preparing for defense. Then only Stalin could attract allies and create a coalition and neutralize Japan and Turkey. Therefore, the role of Stalin in the victory is huge, despite his methods and mistakes.

[Snoop]

I agree. Without diminishing the importance of the courage and bravery of the Red Army and Red Army commanders, and then of the Soviet soldiers and officers, one cannot be defeated by courage alone. To win, you need a reliable state system. A historical fact - the political system of the USSR was stronger than the Third Reich.

[Shuriken]

And what is wrong with the “methods?” Putin has no methods, and how many m.r.a.z.i. who plundered the country get high on the loose? And the “mistakes”, apparently, ensured the victory and restoration of the country to such time, that the world gasped! ... Only about the GULAG is not necessary ... But Stalin was a leader with a capital letter. What is the function of a leader? To entrust the execution of the task and control the execution. If he didn’t manage to answer! And the answer is adequate to the time and situation. And everything worked! For it is impossible to manage a huge country in "manual mode", it will not be enough for the whole country! So who is stopping now from introducing the personal responsibility of an executive officer? And you say the methods are not the same ...

[Roll]

As for the courage of the Russian soldier, this topic is debatable. Yes, 20 percent were brave and courageous, but there were another 60 percent who surrendered, look at the columns of Soviet prisoners at the beginning of the war, at the crowd in a panic fleeing to the rear, gunshots and deserters. On a bunch of rifles pierced with bayonets into the ground. on officers who abandoned troops to their fate. Conclusion all heroism was counterbalanced by cowardice and sloppiness, otherwise we would have driven the fascists back in August 1941, we had enough strength and capabilities.

[xan]

it was
dofiga was offended by the Soviet regime, there were also muzzled looking at their commanders-nominees-on-repressions, there were commanders-captains, which were more useful for the country to shoot. The whole batch is that those 20 percent were enough for victory, and the power, led by Stalin, was not at a loss and was able to mobilize the country to the fullest.

[dddym]

Well, almost to the point if not for one thing - but the Reich had enough sloppiness. The fact that they gave up little when they were lucky - more than paid off when they stopped driving. The morale of the soldier also depends on the number and quality of victories. In the 41st, would you say? What if some of the Wehrmacht generals did not question Hitler's direct orders? And if Hitler himself did not make "stupid" orders? Maybe we won't be saved then? All this is speculation. As the generals of the Wehrmacht then made excuses - they say the weather let down! I already wrote about the new weapon of the Germans - not in the number of their strength was but in the weapon of the new generation "Blitzkrieg".

[dddym]

And then something like that? :)))

[Alexey K.]

Dear specialist in determining the percent of courage and masculinity of a Russian soldier, I would be embarrassed to write such nonsense and nonsense. A large number of prisoners in the initial period of the war is explained not by lack of courage but not completely prepared for war: officers were destroyed during repressions, the troops were in field camps and without proper weapons, propaganda was that the war would be fought on the territory of the enemy, and in general we would throw his hats, the enemy’s best communications in the troops, motorized divisions, unlike our pedestrians, and new tactics of warfare — tank wedges. And despite all this, our Russian soldier managed to recover from defeat and learned to fight and WIN,

[antidote]

Basically, the columns consisted of mobilized residents of the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus, those former citizens of Poland. No wonder

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: antidot

consisted of people mobilized from the inhabitants of the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus, those former citizens of Poland.

Which initially raised their hands in front of the first motorcyclist from the reconnaissance squad, without firing a single shot ...

[Gazprom]

Quote: Greyfox

Greyfox (3) Today, 08:08 ↑
According to the memoirs of Guderian, Middeldorf, Mellenthin, Manstein and Tippelskirch

well done, only I wanted to add it.

ps, but what about the famous from Heinz "Women in uniform are subject to execution"?
In short, they treated like cattle, they did not count people. and after the war they began to look for the guilty, poor selection.

[Suhov]

Russian soldiers through the eyes of the Germans

And they .........

[Gazprom]

And they .........

this is a movie in general, "The Bridge" 1959, this is a shkololo, which they left to plug the unnecessary bridge, and then the Americans come there,
if they were all like that, then then we were busy for 4 years then?

[Suhov]

Quote: Gazprom

this movie in general

Generally it is an artistic image ...

Quote: Gazprom

if they were all like that

Not all.

Quote: Gazprom

if they were all like that, well we then 4 years fumbling then?

We? You didn’t get anything wrong?
Мы not "fiddled", but fought. And we won!
In general, they gave the Nazis a snot!

[vlasov70]

Not us, but They. Our great-grandfathers or grandfathers, depending on our age. And we pissed away the country that they created, defended and restored. And somehow under His guidance. But in general I agree with you.

[xan]

Courage is courage inspired by spirituality. The persistence with which the Bolsheviks defended themselves in their pillboxes in Sevastopol is akin to some animal instinct, and it would be a profound mistake to consider it the result of Bolshevik beliefs or education. Russians have always been like that and, most likely, will always remain like that ”(Goebels)

All the worse for the enemies, you can say a paragraph in general.
I would like Goebbels to be right about "always"

[pensioner]

Quote: Drapper

I came up with it, honestly) thanks.

Well then, well done.

[knn54]

Michael ... all heroism was balanced by cowardice and sloppiness,

[xan]

Quote: knn54

Michael ... all heroism was balanced by cowardice and sloppiness,

Our victory, which means our heroism was enough for both our sloppiness and cowardice, and German heroism

[Gazprom]

Quote: knn54

Michael ... all heroism was balanced by cowardice and sloppiness,

I would say that cowardice, sloppiness and mistakes of some are corrected by the heroism of others

[Standard Oil]

It is interesting why, under the leadership of the "bloody tyrant and stupid party member" Stalin, the Russian soldier won, and under the leadership of the "Holy Martyr Suffering for the Russian people and a gifted commander" Nicholas 2, with his brilliant generals and ADMIRAL, managed to miss all that is possible and that is impossible , arrange a Revolution, etc. It may already be worthwhile to look the truth in the eye and understand that it is the leadership of this very Russian soldier that has a decisive role. By the way, I don’t understand why they don’t like Suvorov’s books so much, because in them he speaks directly, that a Russian soldier could perform any task, that Stalin was no idiot, and what if he planned to attack Germany, so what? Getting married and getting married are two different things. The USSR won the war, destroyed the Nazis, drove the Japanese to their islands, so the Russian soldier is better, and in my opinion this is an elementary conclusion.

[Roll]

Hi, I don’t understand why everyone turned up against Suvorov, pasted the traitor’s label on him. What a traitor he is, how Polyakov handed over the residency, how Bakatin passed the embassy wiretaps. The dough unnecessarily took out as oligarchs. Whom did he betray? In general, the topic of betrayal is very complex and not accessible to many. The fact that Rezun, who suffered from paranoia, left for England to express his ideas. Well, in the USSR he wouldn’t be allowed to write such books, his relations with the GRU are a closed order and there are their own laws. As for his thoughts that the USSR wanted to attack Germany, his arguments are convincing. In general, there is only one method that speaks of the possibility of an attack.

[Roll]

This is a radio signal. If in Germany on June 22 Hitler would not give a radio signal to Dortmund, and Berlin would not attack Russia, we would now be wondering if the fascists would attack us on June 22 or not. If the USSR planned to attack Germany later than June 28, in principle, there can be no evidence. If you look at Zhukov’s memoirs when, when attacking the Japanese, the headquarters received secret orders, then even the headquarters of the divisions received orders 2 days before the attack. The fascists have the same principle. The division commanders received an order to attack the USSR in 2 days, but without the confirmation signal received 6 hours before the attack, this is nonsense.

[Raven1972]

I will simply answer you - all these grief historians like Rezun do not take into account elementary things - for example, the "Steel Pact", according to which, in the event of aggression against Germany, Japan automatically entered the war ... The result is a war on 2 fronts ... I hope to explain further no need ... And + to everything - if the USSR became the aggressor - then the entire western camarilla, squealing and howling with happiness, would immediately side with Germany (I mean the USA and the UK)

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Rolm

I don’t understand why everybody took up arms against Suvorov,

I’m afraid, damn it, I’ll stick with the minuses ...
Suvorov-Rezun was one of the first to raise the issue of "rereading" materials about the Great Patriotic War.
And everyone’s business is to agree with him or not.
Facts everyone knows, or almost everyone.
Rђ RІRѕS, conclusions are made almost diametrically opposite.

[Vladimir73]

and he perfectly learned to operate only with the facts that suit him and not notice those facts that do not fit into his version of events !!!!

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Vladimir73

who suit him and not notice those facts that do not fit into his version of events !!!

So homo sapiens and should think, draw conclusions from what he saw and read.

[smile]

stalkerwalker
You see, if Rezun had not deliberately distorted all the quotes, invented facts, did not lie recklessly about jackal planes, did not name products with the letter "a" on his blue eye as motorway tanks, gradually explaining that we are. by their bloodthirsty nature, they almost seized the planet (Hitler interfered), but if this traitor had not worked for MI6 during the writing of his fabrications, then it would have been possible to argue whether he was right or not ... and so ... you, by the way, know that this defector still promises in an interview with the Ukrainian media to pick up a machine gun and go kill the komunnyak if we go to conquer the world - nothing has changed for him - he was an enemy of the USSR, now Russia ... for Judas - no matter ... it's an enemy of our country .. our people .. your and mine ... how can you believe him, hanging your ears?

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: smile

this is the enemy of our country .. our people .. yours and mine ... how can you believe him by hanging your ears?

Dear smile (smile on the profile picture is impressive )!
In no case do I JUSTIFY the traitor Rezun.
And my opinion about him as a person does not differ from yours.
But his argumentation, with the name-calling of airplanes, the "bloodthirsty" plans of the USSR, you must agree, is worthy of study.
I even confess that I read all of his books published before the start of the 2000s.
After that I bought the Tank Encyclopedia, I began to buy memoirs about the Great Patriotic War and the Second World War. And it turned out that this not enough to understand what happened. In general - like everyone else.
Today I have fewer questions than answers ...
It seems to me that the false Suvorov, with his "stone in our garden", caused such diverging circles that he ALREADY drowned in his own lies.

[smile]

stalkerwalker
Well answered, thank you .. pleased that. it turns out that Rezunov’s lies are useful .. :)))) I also read right up to take my words back .. naive, I thought he would repent :))))
Advice, excuse me, if you have not read it, be sure to read the following books:
Rodent "How Viktor Suvorov Composed History"
Ulanov, Shein "Order in the tank forces"
SuRov "Aquarium 2"
Grigoriev "On the military-technical aspects of Suvorov's books. Did Stalin prepare an offensive war against Hitler ..."
after that you will see that in all your writings the rezun lies corny .. no, not so virtuoso lies on the instructions of employers .. it turned out well, you see how his insinuations are rooted .. :))))
the most complete in detail his total intentional lie reveals the 1st book ...

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: smile

in all of his writings, Rezun is corny lying .. no, not so virtuoso a lie

Thank you, smile!
I'll try.
Already read Surov - impressed. The Baltic theme of the 1939-1991 period, especially in today's aspect, is very relevant.
As for Rezun, it’s just a boycott: don’t buy books, don’t mention the name.
Good luck!

[dddym]

I'm so careful ... "Nicholas's Baba Syndrome happened" :) oh don't kick in the face! :))))

[xan]

Quote: Standard Oil

The USSR won the war, destroyed the Nazis, drove the Japanese to their islands, so the Russian soldier is better, and in my opinion this is an elementary conclusion.

I also think that if men are shit in the country, then an army cannot be created.
Bismarck correctly said, I don’t remember how cool it is - the school teacher wins the war first.

[Kahlan amnell]

"For a long time, we, the Greeks, have called these heroes - Rosich or Rus. Rosy men are valiant warriors. During the raids, it is possible to take a few slaves from these Slavs, because they all prefer death to captivity."
Zachariah Ritor, V century.

[PROXOR]

The words of the Wehrmacht commissar commanders testify that our troops fought fiercely in the summer of 1941. In general, in the summer of 1941, two worthy opponents converged on the battlefield. Behind the Wehrmacht was experience - vast experience. We have the strength and the desire to win. Having survived 1941 and 1942 in 1943, we showed the Wehrmacht what we learned in two years.

[Roll]

That's right, only at least the Wehrmacht’s ground forces had no experience, two weeks of war with France and a couple with Poland was not experience. We fought with Japan, with the Finns, with Poland, and we also had experience and more German. But in tactics, in combat training, we really were very inferior. It’s difficult to train 20 tank crews, and 000 is much easier. The level of training of personnel units was extremely weak. Soviet soldiers knew how to sweep the parade ground, go to the outfits, march, but the combat training was lame. And we did not know how to establish interaction between the individual branches of the armed forces. That's the problem.

[PROXOR]

Quote: Rolm

That's right, only at least the Wehrmacht’s ground forces had no experience, two weeks of war with France and a couple with Poland was not experience. We fought with Japan, with the Finns, with Poland, and we also had experience and more German. But in tactics, in combat training, we really were very inferior. It’s difficult to train 20 tank crews, and 000 is much easier. The level of training of personnel units was extremely weak. Soviet soldiers knew how to sweep the parade ground, go to the outfits, march, but the combat training was lame. And we did not know how to establish interaction between the individual branches of the armed forces. That's the problem.

I do not agree. In the summer of 1940, the Wehrmacht ground forces entered into confrontation not only with the French troops but also with the British. Manstein was imposing a fight on the enemy; it was not for nothing that he was considered the best operational mind of the 3rd Reich. and just drove the main grouping of protinik to the north coast of France leaving only one road. Across the strait. After their evacuation, the road to Paris was open. Could an inexperienced army be able to bend the two leading armies of Europe with such ease.
Now about the experience gained by our commanders in the Spanish and Finnish companies. Let's start from the very beginning. The leadership of the Red Army was fairly cleaned, and many experienced commanders were put to the wall. The 1939 war with Finland showed all the destructiveness of that purge. The Red Army did not have experienced non-armament commanders to crack the enemy’s defense. It was thanks to the winter company of 1939 that there was a rethinking of the generally qualitative and quantitative composition of the Red Army. I want to note the fact that the main striking force of the ground forces - tanks that could adequately conduct offensive tactics in the Red Army were absent. The only T28 turned out to be any real. Which still had to sheathe additional armor.
From the foregoing, I note. If the summer of 1941 can be attributed to a literate first strike of the Wehrmacht, which overnight deprived us of aviation as intelligence and as a result of the Red Army could not build tactics to counter the enemy. In the summer of 1942, we fought for a year already and we had intelligence.
And the summer of 1943, namely the battle on the Kursk Bulge, showed how Manstein, with a smaller number, almost broke through all 3 lines of defense. The 5th tank Rotmisterova actually saved the situation while losing 2/3 of its composition.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: PROXOR

the battle on the Kursk Bulge showed how Manstein, with smaller numbers, almost broke through all 3 lines of defense. The 5ya tank Rotmisterova actually saved the situation while losing 2 / 3 of its composition.

And after Prokhorovka the situation remained ambiguous.
The transition to the offensive of the Red Army in the Oryol direction forced the Germans to withdraw troops and transfer them to the direction of Oryol-Bryansk.
By the way. In the region of Karachev, Soviet cavalrymen (not in horse ranks!) Put out of action about 20 (I don’t remember exactly) vaunted Panthers - this is for those who still believe in the "fairy tales" of the smart Heinz.

[PROXOR]

Quote: stalkerwalker

And after Prokhorovka, the situation remained ambiguous. The transition to the offensive of the Red Army in the Oryol direction forced the Germans to withdraw troops and transfer them to the Oryol-Bryansk direction.

Not quite so. The model was transferred all reserves for two groups. The model was not in vain assuring Hitler that starting an attack he would confront the enemy twice as large as himself and even with an open flank. As soon as our troops hit the Model on the left, he was forced to start a retreat. He was mainly covered by aviation. The tank divisions simply could not resist to confront our tank brigades. And the reserves were located just in the new fortified areas near Bryansk.
Now about the South. Manstein for the last throw gathered all his tank divisions in one fist. 7 to mine. It was this kulag who almost broke the 3rd line of defense. The TVET from the opposite side of the Psel River stopped them. If it weren’t for the 5th Panzer Division, the SS division The dead head would cross the river, destroy the TVET, and then the road would be open to her. The wisdom of the German commanders is that they chose the best site for the oblrons. And only the courage of our Tangkists, violating all the laws of warfare that the Germans knew, allowed them to drive the enemy out from under Prokhorovka. The 5th tank practically ceased to exist after this attack.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: PROXOR

5ya tank practically ceased to exist after this attack.

1. I don't argue. For the loss of almost 300 tanks, Stalin wanted to almost shoot Rotmistrov. He calmed down only when he was "reported" that the Germans had lost about 500 tanks. From here the legend walks.
2. Prokhorovka remained with the Germans.
3. Even on the eve of the battle, Manstein was losing a counterstrike to his right flank when turning to Oboyan. Therefore, the panzerwaffen deliberately "substituted" for a frontal blow. Well, then - according to the written.

[ATATA]

Quote: PROXOR

And only the courage of our Tangkists, violating all the laws of warfare that the Germans knew, allowed them to drive the enemy out from under Prokhorovka.

For obvious reasons, the German exploits were not reported.

Self-sacrifice and "victory at any cost" were not promoted in Germany until about 44. Therefore, nothing is known about the feats like Talalikhinsky, Ghatellovsky or sailors, committed by the Germans during that period.
But at the end of the war, there were similar cases. There were even squadrons of suicide fighters (Rammjager). Entering them, the pilots swore an oath in each battle to shoot down at least one enemy bomber, and if it was not possible to do this with cannons, then ram the enemy. The famous ace Heinrich Erler died in the spring of 45 in the ramming of the American "Flying Fortress" (although he was part of the "regular" air defense squadron). His last words were: "I have run out of ammunition, I'm going to ram, see you in Valhalla!"

Opponents must be respected.

[ATATA]

Something like this. And the opponents are the same people.

[ATATA]

Quote: PROXOR

I want to note the fact that the main striking force of the ground forces - tanks that could adequately conduct offensive tactics in the Red Army were absent.

Here from this place in more detail.
How many tanks did the Red Army have? which ones? And their comparison with the performance characteristics of mass German tanks and their number.
Can?

[a boat]

I’m watching some heroes gather here? How do you dare to discuss those people regardless of the nation? Cowardice, sloppiness, say, so the cowards snatched victory from the enemy? Damn the heroes of the army, you can’t squeeze anyone into the army, not even talking about the price of your life save another! and then everything from small to old! it’s not disgusting for ourselves from such a thing! war is not romantic, not beautiful and in most of the heroes die first

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: gych

how dare you discuss those people regardless of nation

Right bro!
".. The heroes are not you ...". Alas...
The moral-volitional level of today and the "then" differ like cutlets and flies.

[Black]

Quote: stalkerwalker

The moral-volitional level of today and the "then" differ like cutlets and flies.

It is not necessary to measure everything cylindrical with one vernier caliper.
Moral and strong-willed at the normal level in the Russian Army. The time is now peaceful (well, relatively), "they will hit the drum" - both we and our boys will fight no worse than our grandfathers.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Chen

both we and our boys will fight no worse than our grandfathers.

God forbid that it was so, if suddenly "Tomorrow is war" ...
But I DO NOT even compare the moral-volitional component of our society today with what this component was 30 years ago.
I am afraid that no one will give you, or me, or our boys in time to mobilize. Every year, with every decade, the timing of the deployment of the main forces "melts" like snow in April.

[vlasov70]

In those days, the army did not take shame not only for you, but for the entire village! It was considered an honor to be a warrior, to defend their country. And now "honor" is a banker or an official with no honor.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: vlasov70

In those days, the army did not take shame, not only for you

Yes ...
There was a case.
The girls just didn't marry - "They didn't even take him into the army ... ha-ha-ha"

[Prapor Afonya]

GLORY TO THE RUSSIAN SOLDIER! SOLDIER TO THE WINNER!

[rennim]

The courage and resilience of the Russian (Soviet) soldier is not in doubt. I think that the presence of commissars in units during the Second World War also played a decisive role. Not for nothing that the Germans called them fanatics under the control of commissars. That's why they shot right away ... Special thanks to the Commissioners of the AC and Eternal Glory !!!

[Aleksys2]

Quote: rennim

I think that the presence of commissars in units during the Second World War also played a decisive role.

Here is what I.F. writes in his memoirs. Stadnyuk:
"It was difficult for me to part with my cherished dream ..! And then the war broke out. The days of the hardest trials came. The reality turned out to be very far from the pictures that my enthusiastic imagination recently drew. But in this terrible reality the image of the commissar and political instructor did not in the least lose the delightful Moreover, the youthful fantasy turned out to be the poorest of all that happened.
I am deeply convinced that the tremendous role that political workers played in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, especially senior political workers, the commissars, has not yet been appreciated. As a participant in the tragic events that took place in June 1941 west of Minsk, I came up with the feeling that if there hadn’t been commissioners with us, everything would have turned out to be a hundred times more tragic. At the same time, I do not want to belittle the role of commanders, who, in the utter confusion and bloody turmoil, had enough work to clarify the constantly changing situation and organize resistance to the enemy. However, since already in the first days a considerable part of our troops turned out to be fragmented, it was very important, as it turned out, to see not only the political officers of the company, but the commissars of battalions and regiments ahead of the counterattack chains. Realizing that the main task is to delay the enemy, slow down the pace of his advance to the east, they stopped people and calmly, but with a certain categorical order, ordered (even to commanders) to deploy in battle formations to the right and left of the highways and dig in. At the same time, they themselves remained here until the end, continued to build up their forces, and helped commanders bring people into a combat state.
It seems that there was no busy intersection, no crossing over the river, no barrier that was thrown out towards the enemy, where the voice of a man with a red star on his sleeve could not be heard. They were involved in everything, everywhere they found themselves an urgent matter. "

[Black]

"Commissars" and "beyond the river" were in front. Their role is great, if they are honestly fighting.

[Trapperxnumx]

One of the Soviet tanks approached the howitzer on 100 meters. The gunners opened fire on him and got hit - it's like lightning struck. The tank stopped. “We knocked him out,” the gunners breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, someone from the calculation of the gun screamed heart-rending: “He went again!” Indeed, the tank came to life and began to approach the gun. Another minute, and the tank's shiny metal caterpillars smashed a howitzer into the ground like a toy. Having settled down with the weapon, the tank continued on its way as if nothing had happened. ”

The question is ... Why didn’t they shoot? Or were there no shells? And if not, then why not?
Recently, the Internet began to appear infa about the possible betrayal of part of the Russian command on the Western Front, so the question is this.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Trapper7

Why not shoot? Or were there no shells?

It seems like ....
Notice that we already managed to bring the howitzer, and get ready for firing, and shoot at the tank.
The optics quality of tank periscopes and sights left much to be desired. On the first samples of the T-34, they tried to install polished metal plates instead of mirrors (they say they’re not cracked).
About the engine B-2 put in a word.
By the 41st, its resource at the stand was 100 (one hundred) hours. And in the field it "sagged" up to 40-70 hours.
Plus crew training affected.
If a tank left the battle with up to 200 hits on the hull and turret, this indicates that the tankers "did not see" those who fired at the tank. And 105-mm hull guns and 88-mm anti-aircraft guns on direct fire no longer forgave this "blindness".

[Rubik]

Courage is courage inspired by spirituality. The stubbornness with which the Bolsheviks defended themselves in their pillboxes in Sevastopol is akin to a certain animal instinct, and it would be a profound mistake to consider it the result of Bolshevik beliefs or upbringing. Russians have always been like that and most likely they will always remain so. ”

It seems to me alone that the Russians have long been wrong? Especially youth.

[ars_pro]

THANK THE GRANFATHER FOR THE VICTORY!!!
Our partisans are the most portizian portizans !!!

[Polida]

It turned out successfully stubbornness of the people and the will of Stalin
My great-grandfather went missing near Mgoy
My husband’s grandfather died near LENINGRAD in October - a gray funeral at home as a relic ...

[Polida]

My great-grandfather went missing under Mgoy
My husband’s grandfather died in October 41 at LENINGRAD
Without our people, Stalin would not have left ...

[stalkerwalker]

Plusanul for an avatar

[hip]

Amazing number of comments on the article!
And, which is characteristic of everything with knowledge of the subject, I suppose that all commenters are the very same Russian soldiers.
I will allow myself to add a little bit: a soldier (officer, general) is, first of all, a man, and you can’t hide and overcome human nature. For the first time, everyone is scared, and the nippers shake and remember the prayers that I did not know. But then you begin to understand that not everything is so scary, that is, of course scary, but not so limitless.
I think that this fear is the same for everyone: both Russians and Germans and British and Americans, etc. etc. But how it is further overcome - this is the essence. But even so, I would not talk about the exclusively Russian ability to perform a feat, rather, we can talk about the cultural component, within which feats were performed by soldiers of different nationalities. Confirmation of this - the mass and not only in World War II.
Guys, no need to fall into chauvinism. Russian is a nationality, a Russian is a state of mind.

[Taz]

Quote: hanc

Guys, no need to fall into chauvinism. Russian is a nationality, a Russian is a state of mind.

Maybe the opposite? Is a Russian a nationality, a Russian a state of mind?

[hip]

No, it’s in this order: Russian is a nationality, and a Russian is a state of mind. There can be many nationalities, nations, nationalities in a country, but together they make up one people, citizens of one country, which happened during the Great Patriotic War.

[Kalita]

"Throughout their history, Russians have invariably shown extraordinary tenacity and perseverance in defense, without being distinguished by a special ability to act offensively. Defense is the essence of their national character. They are insensitive like animals. Deprivation and poverty are the usual conditions of their existence, and therefore the Russians not so much clinging to life. The life of an ordinary person is less valued there than a bicycle. A high birth rate allows you to quickly make up for any losses. Russians have a primitive tenacity that should not be confused with courage. Courage is courage inspired by spirituality. Tenacity, with which the Bolsheviks defended themselves in their pillboxes in Sevastopol, akin to some animal instinct, and it would be a deep mistake to consider it the result of Bolshevik convictions or upbringing. Russians have always been like this, and most likely will always remain so. In addition, it is not so difficult to give your life when there is not even a glimmer of hope in it, except for the mirage of a distant paradise, which beckons evenin a moment of danger. "- Here is the text of the full text of Goebbels's quote. I just don't want anyone to have a wrong opinion about this villain based on the quote taken out of context. WE are animals for him.

[Vladimir73]

Our grandfathers therefore fought so desperately, because understood that for Germans we are animals that prevent them from living.

[Raven1972]

And not so much for the Germans, but for the West in general ... As M. Kalashnikov correctly wrote, for us we are ORCs (if you take Tolkien’s terminology, he and Darkness are in the east if anyone remembers)

[Kalita]

"Throughout their history, Russians have invariably shown extraordinary tenacity and perseverance in defense, without being distinguished by a special ability to act offensively. Defense is the essence of their national character. They are insensitive like animals. Deprivation and poverty are the usual conditions of their existence, and therefore the Russians not so much clinging to life. The life of an ordinary person is less valued there than a bicycle. A high birth rate allows you to quickly make up for any losses. Russians have a primitive tenacity that should not be confused with courage. Courage is courage inspired by spirituality. Tenacity, with which the Bolsheviks defended themselves in their pillboxes in Sevastopol, akin to some animal instinct, and it would be a deep mistake to consider it the result of Bolshevik convictions or upbringing. Russians have always been like this, and most likely will always remain so. In addition, it is not so difficult to give your life when there is no glimmer of hope in it, except for the mirage of a distant paradise, which even beckonsin a moment of danger. "- Here is a hollow Goebbels quote. I just do not want the wrong opinion about this scoundrel to be created on the basis of a quote taken out of context.

[pupkin70]

These are the memories of a RUSSIAN soldier that need to be studied in schools, in the place of OBZh. And Ulitskaya is imposed on our children with her tolerance.
I am proud that I am Russian, that my ancestors proudly defended our homeland from many foreigners !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dmitreach]

cinema and Germans

[dmitreach]

picture is not inserted

[Rds12]

The Germans are young, which indicated not only some Russians, as usual here they like to do. Like all other nations and republics did not fight, but suffered from crap. For reference, in Russia there are only about 150 nations. Please do not forget.

Correct Speak Soviet soldier, as Gagarin said when he landed, "I am mine, The Soviet". This is not the principality of Piterskoe for you, these are 15 Soviet Republics and Allied countries. Do not fucking attribute everything to one snout.

As for the war, it would be better if they bombed Britain and the USA - the main provocateurs and organizers of all wars on earth.

You can minus me, so apart from this you do not know how.

[Vladimir73]

it is a pity that this assessment only slips after they received lyuli from us.

[Batman]

1) yes, the Soviet soldier will be more correct.
2) but a Russian soldier does not mean a specific people "Russian", but a nation, in which there are more than 150 peoples.
3) The differences were, I think, in the thinking of Socialism, when a person strove not to do something for his own sake, but for the sake of his homeland! Add to this threat to the Homeland, and Everyone will stand to the last of their strengths. Another thing is tactics when they intend to retreat. I also draw attention to the fact that in the USSR they tested drugs that deprived a person of their senses, and a person could run away and shoot grief without feeling pain - but this was not massive, but only in some parts.
4) Britain and the United States started World War II, they sponsored Hitler's rise to power, they pointed out to Hitler who to attack.
5) I don’t see what to minus you) you are all right to say, even to the plus)

[Strategy]

Quote: Batman

I’ll also pay attention to the fact that in the USSR they tested drugs that deprived a person of feelings, and a person could run away and shoot grief without feeling pain

A-ball-go !!!

[dddym]

A-ball-go !!!

It's not just stunned - it's a super weapon of Russian !!!! It was called 100 of the People’s Commissars :)))))) And also the cries of edrena louse - generally deprived the enemy of the ability to resist :)))))

[mehanik27]

That is, you want to say that the Russians were drunks and won only thanks to the booze and swearing ?????

[family tree]

Quote: Strategia

Quote: Batman

I’ll also pay attention to the fact that in the USSR they tested drugs that deprived a person of feelings, and a person could run away and shoot grief without feeling pain

A-ball-go !!!

Yeah, that’s it. For example: Mamkin Alexander Petrovich, Soviet civilian pilot, participant in the Great Patriotic War. Since 1942, he served in the army in the ranks of the 105th Guards Separate Aviation Regiment (OGAP) of the civil air fleet. During the service he made 73 night sorties to the rear of the enemy to the location of partisan detachments on the R-5 aircraft.
During the operation "Zvezdochka" made 9 sorties to the location of the partisans, on the 9th sortie, on his return, he was attacked and shot down by a German night fighter. Pulled over the front line, and landed a burning plane. In addition to him, there were 10 children on the plane, their teacher and two wounded partisans. According to the instructions, he could leave the plane with a parachute. Six days later, he died of burns in the hospital. The medics could not explain how a seriously wounded man could control the flight and landing in a flaming cabin, with glasses melted into his face and his legs burned to the bone.
Now, probably, someone will say that the drugs were tested precisely on night-time pilots? So I won’t be surprised, and I’ve never heard of such a thing. I even saw it, on the screen, they went on the attack with cuttings from shovels.
And the "People's Commissars" gave out after the battle.

[Batman]

It was called 100g of people's commissars.

eh, my words twisted. I repeat, there were only trials, and did not give to every soldier. and I also didn’t give the pilots. And most of the heroes suffered on their own willpower, on their upbringing ...

Even the Americans were testing a drug that a soldier could do without sleep for 3-5 days. After the action, the truth cut him off for the same 3-5 days)

[Vladimir73]

"I will also draw your attention to the fact that in the USSR they tested drugs that deprived a person of feelings, and a person could run and shoot in grief without feeling pain - but this was not massive, but only in some parts."

such tests were conducted not only in the USSR))

[Raven1972]

As for the war, it would be better if they bombed Britain and the USA - the main provocateurs and organizers of all wars on earth.

I completely agree with this ...

[Polida]

I agree with you, Ahmet Khan Sultan (Crimean Tatar) -
2 Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Tank Troops Rybalko (Ukrainian) - 2 Hero of the Soviet Union and such Groves are many of our peoples !!!

[Dr. Manoff]

Quote: Chen

Quote: Greyfox

Russians killed German soldiers.

This is finally below the belt !!!!

But seriously, according to the recollections of our veterans, the German is a worthy rival, a good warrior. the higher the price of our victory.

[Castor oil]

Found on the Internet in one of the forums

otherwise

A small digression found when parsing the old mail:
German grandfather, 89 years old. I went through the whole war without a single scratch. He served as a telephone operator. So that's it. From a conversation with him it suddenly became clear that "hurray!" he has never heard or even suspects such a cry. But the word "bl ... d" he remembered forever. With this cry, the Russians burst into the German trenches. After that, the only correct decision was to simply make legs on time. Thanks to this, the grandfather then survived. He also remembered another cry: "Forward, e ... my mother!" Which, according to the grandfather, meant "full pi ... dec", because Russian tanks also went on the attack.

[bilgesez]

Russian Russian power, and the world will be ours.

[Was mammoth]

[media = http: // http: //www.youtube.com/watch? v = PF6a1-6-dJc]
There is an answer to their misunderstanding of us.
PS Failed to insert a picture

[подводник]

I already inserted it once.....but still on topic...

[Edas]

A Russian man without weapons is a terrible opponent, but with weapons he is invincible.

[Simon]

Quote: Dmitry_2013

Stalin remained in history as the leader of the country, and many of those described in this article rest in peace in the earth ... So honor and praise to those who fought to the end.
PS And the article just emphasizes the steadfastness and heroism of the Russian Soldier, and not the ability or inability of the leadership to influence this.

During the Great Patriotic War, Stalin was a talisman for the entire Soviet people. His name alone rallied the entire people into one strong fist, the soldiers went into battle “For the Motherland, For Stalin”, in the rear women, old people and children worked in production with the slogan: “Everything for the Army, everything for victory.” All military production in 1941 in the European part of the state was dismantled and transported to the Urals, where new factories were built, which already in 1942 began to produce weapons superior to those of the Nazis.

[Thunderbolt]

3 French companies are better than one Russian --- the "Kruts" aptly noted this. Ostmedaille --- the German soldiers were very proud of this award. IMHO, they attacked the wrong ones.

[Zomanus]

What the hell are you barking at? A nasty feeling, like a squabble at a funeral. We are the best - that's it. At least we won then. Now we have nothing to brag about.

[family tree]

This one. For the winter campaign of 1941-1942. The Germans called it “Frozen meat”.

[family tree]

Quote: Thunderbolt

3 French companies are better than one Russian --- the "Kruts" aptly noted this. Ostmedaille --- the German soldiers were very proud of this award. IMHO, they attacked the wrong ones.

For the winter campaign of 1941-1942. The Germans called it "Frozen meat"

3000000 pieces were issued and they were frozen well.

[Woodoo]

The horror is intensified by the melancholy, monotonous nature of the Russian landscape... He felt insignificant, lost in these endless spaces
They were lucky that they did not reach the steppes. There they would experience a spherical vacuum.

[aleshka]

and what about Stalingrad, taiga???

[Marconi41]

How strange it is! The article talks exclusively about the Russian soldier through the eyes of the Germans, and nothing more, and Stalin is discussed on the form. RUSSIANS!!! About the dead it’s either good or nothing - isn’t that what our grandfathers taught us?! Whoever shoots a gun into the past gets a gun out of it!
And the selection is good (and thanks to Alexey!)

[rainer]

Can’t you find anything smarter than verbiage? I’ve long noticed that in most of the articles and comments here there is no analytics as a class... For some reason, any attempts to impartially analyze the events of the Great Patriotic War run into a wave of insane patriotism and slogans? Why is any attempt to point out the shortcomings of the Wehrmacht both in organizational matters and in the field of warfare always perceived as an attempt to belittle the role of the Russian (Soviet) people? Why can no one realize that the Third Reich could not win against the anti-Hitler coalition and the USSR in particular in principle... Why are the events of the Second World War considered in isolation from the pre-war events? Why do all discussions about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War actually come down to the exaltation of the Wehrmacht and laudatory words addressed to the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (I have nothing against the I.V.S. and the peoples of the USSR)?

PS I accept answers in writing, silent minuses will be interpreted as hidden reverence for the NSDAP and the Wehrmacht...

[vladsolo56]

In fact, the topic is much simpler than many comments. There are archives containing documentary memories of German soldiers, officers and generals. The topic invites you to simply read and discuss. Shifting the discussion to Stalin’s personality turns out to be off topic. But the Soviet soldiers were different, there were quite a lot of cowards and traitors, there were simply alarmists. But there were also heroes; it’s also useless to argue with this. The question is, what is war after victory? And this is no longer just war as a fact. This is a political and patriotic textbook. And it is natural and correct to write it in such a way as to educate young people, not only not in fear of the enemy, of war, but in love for their homeland. The real facts and results of military operations must be studied and known by professional military officers: officers, generals. Know and not forget, and learn from those mistakes and successes.

[rainer]

Yes, that’s right somewhere, though there’s one more nuance associated with the source study systematization of all these diaries, interrogation materials, or at least justifying the sample on the basis of which the analysis was made, all this is of course more labor-intensive and does not look so impressive, but at least there will be more benefit from this than in political instructor’s verbiage...

[Setrac]

Quote: Rainger

?I have long noticed that in most of the articles and comments here there is no analysis as a class... For some reason, any attempts to impartially analyze the events of the Great Patriotic War run into a wave of insane patriotism and slogans?

Because there is no impartial analysis in principle. Under “impartial analysis” they hide anti-Russian propaganda, an attempt to discredit Russians as a nation, as a country, as heroes. The logical conclusion of such an “impartial analysis” will be the equalization of fascism and communism and the revision of the results of the Second World War.
And any person who cares for an “impartial review” is either our enemies conducting anti-Russian propaganda, or traitors (if a Russian citizen) playing into the hands of the enemy, or fools who do not understand that they are helping the enemies of Russia.

[rainer]

What is wrong with a comparative analysis of the political regimes of the countries that participated in World War II? When analyzing a chess game in a tournament between a group of grandmasters, should we analyze all the games of the championship or only state the qualifications of the initial favorite of the tournament without analyzing his first games without evaluating his initial opponents? I’m already silent about the debut of the Wehrmacht against the USSR... Words about the fact that “an impartial analysis is impossible” are a sign of battle cowardice and an inferiority complex before Europe...

[Setrac]

Quote: Rainger

What is wrong with a comparative analysis of the political regimes of the countries that participated in World War II? When analyzing a chess game in a tournament between a group of grandmasters, should we analyze all the games of the championship or only state the qualifications of the initial favorite of the tournament without analyzing his first games without evaluating his initial opponents? I’m already silent about the debut of the Wehrmacht against the USSR... Words about the fact that “an impartial analysis is impossible” are a sign of battle cowardice and an inferiority complex before Europe...

The bad thing is that no one really needs him, our enemies need to achieve certain political and propaganda goals, they don’t care about historical truth, much less historical justice. In the context of World War II, the USSR was not at all the favorite. An impartial analysis is possible, but no one needs it and will not be carried out, at least by our enemies. Europe experiences an inferiority complex and banal cowardice in front of Russia, which is why they attack us.
Now, as for you specifically - you belong to the category of traitors who support the enemy in the information war, whether you do this consciously or out of your own stupidity - it does not matter at all.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Rainger

Why do all discussions about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War actually come down to the exaltation of the Wehrmacht and laudatory words addressed to the All-Union Communist Party?

There are enough screamers here...
Well, try to “get the idea across” in a more understandable, so to speak, broader format.
And finally.
Most of the forum members “do not suffer” from the “vices” you mentioned.

[rainer]

Well, I wouldn’t say that... chronic downvotes without a detailed answer and the banal translation of everything and everyone into tactics are direct confirmation of this...

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: Rainger

chronic downvotes without a detailed answer and banal translation

No need to shed so many tears. A negative result is also a result. These are the rules here.

Quote: Rainger

What’s wrong with a comparative analysis of the political regimes of the countries that participated in World War II?

Here there is more FINAL opinions clashing. In short. On a clearly expressed ideological basis. Well. A brief analysis of political regimes on the eve of WWII is carried out in the book Surovova "Aquarium-2".

[EXA-2]

Quote: vladsolo56

In fact, the topic is much simpler than many comments. There are archives containing documentary memories of German soldiers, officers and generals. The topic invites you to simply read and discuss. Shifting the discussion to Stalin’s personality turns out to be off topic. But the Soviet soldiers were different, there were quite a lot of cowards and traitors, there were simply alarmists. But there were also heroes; it’s also useless to argue with this. The question is, what is war after victory? And this is no longer just war as a fact. This is a political and patriotic textbook. And it is natural and correct to write it in such a way as to educate young people, not only not in fear of the enemy, of war, but in love for their homeland. The real facts and results of military operations must be studied and known by professional military officers: officers, generals. Know and not forget, and learn from those mistakes and successes.

I fully support

[rainer]

As a person who has worked in archives, I can tell you right away that this work is extremely labor-intensive, tedious but interesting, and still depends on the conscientiousness of the researcher and his ability to work with archival funds...

[IRKUT]

In Germany, the radio shouted that the shells of "German tanks not only set fire to, but also flashed Russian cars through and through." But the soldiers told each other about Russian tanks, which could not be pierced even by point blank shots - the shells ricocheted from the armor. Lieutenant Helmut Ritgen from the 6th Panzer Division admitted that in a clash with new and unknown Russian tanks: “... the very concept of tank warfare has changed, KV vehicles have marked a completely different level of armament, armor protection and weight of tanks. German tanks suddenly went into the category of exclusively anti-personnel weapons ... "Tanker of the 12th Panzer Division Hans Becker:" On the Eastern Front, I met people who can be called a special race. Already the first attack turned into a battle not for life, but for death. ”

[Thunderbolt]

video about the feat of a simple soldier and about KV. I really like it

[zen1963]

Whether you want it or not, you will still fight to the death when the machine guns of the barrage detachments are looking at your back. But now you can easily desert and nothing will happen. Our generals got in trouble in Chechnya, they didn’t want to save the boys, the militants who were ambushed by the militants, and who- did any of them answer?

[Smoke]

Can you tell me more about the Zahrad detachments, please, when they appeared, where they were used, with links to your sources, preferably

[dddym]

Apparently films like "Penal Battalion", "GUGA" and books like Mr. Astafiev

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: dddym

Apparently films like "Penal Battalion", "GUGA" and books like

I’ve already been downvoted for what I wrote about a month ago, but I’ll repeat it.
According to the recollections of his father, who never served in a penal battalion, in 1942 he had to run into the attack through an UNCLEARED minefield to attack.
By the way.
The Wehrmacht also had fine battalions.
And J. Goebbels, having analyzed the value of the institution of commissars in the Red Army, made an attempt to create an analogue in the Wehrmacht.

[svp67]

Quote: stalkerwalker

According to the recollections of his father, who never served in a penal battalion, in 1942 he had to run into the attack through an UNCLEARED minefield to attack.

On the question of how the Germans “took care” of their soldiers. This is from the memoirs of an SS veteran, 1940
French and British artillery continued to fire from Metz, but less intensely. I noticed our soldiers running across the field.
- There are mines! — I yelled into the microphone.
Herr General knew this. Special-purpose armored personnel carriers and half-track all-terrain vehicles appeared on the field. The mines went off, people were torn to pieces, and equipment was damaged. An act of cruel madness was being committed before my eyes.
Just a few minutes later, the soldiers of the reserve company reached me. These were soldiers from my company, the one in which I fought. They cleared the way for the SS, Wehrmacht and 7th Panzer. And then I realized that if I had not been a radio operator, the fate of being written off would have awaited me.
This is from "Knee-Deep in Blood. Memoirs of an SS Sheep" by Günter Fleischmann

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: svp67

On the question of how the Germans “took care” of their soldiers

[rodevaan]

Quote: stalkerwalker

Quote: dddym

Apparently films like "Penal Battalion", "GUGA" and books like

The Wehrmacht also had fine battalions.
And J. Goebbels, having analyzed the value of the institution of commissars in the Red Army, made an attempt to create an analogue in the Wehrmacht.

- There’s nothing to minus for! By the way, for those who don’t know, the first penal battalions appeared in the Wehrmacht, and not in the Red Army. It is now fashionable among the liberoid-shitcratic anti-Russian husk to sing along with the Westerners and exaggerate the topic of penal battalions in the Red Army.
Disciplinary battalions appeared in the German army even before the start of World War II. In 1939 there were eight of them. They housed military personnel who had committed various offenses. They were used mainly as military construction and sapper units. After easy victories in the West, the Wehrmacht liquidated these units, considering that the German soldier was supposedly invincible and there was no need for penalties.
However, the situation on the Eastern Front, completely different from that in the West, showed the Fritz that it was urgently and decisively necessary to restore order in the decaying units, and on December 16, 1941, Hitler announced an order prohibiting the surrender of positions without appropriate permission from above. Soldiers who deserted from the front line were shot on the spot. In fact, it was the same as Order No. 227, which it is now so fashionable to talk about in every possible way.
Putting an elementary order in positions, the Hitlerite leadership created 100 penal companies on the Eastern Front. Or, as they were officially called, parts of probation. Terms there were given from six months to five years. Their convicts were to serve "from bell to bell." Neither wounding nor heroic behavior on an advanced date was reduced. That is, the German soldier could not atone for his guilt with blood, unlike the Soviet “penalty box”. From the hospital, the wounded man again returned his penalty battalion. Moreover, they did not give any orders and medals to the German "penal".

The number of these units on the Eastern Front was strictly defined - 16500 people, which corresponded to the staff of the infantry division. 100 penal mouths were evenly distributed throughout the Soviet-German front. At the same time, the principle of caste was strictly observed: there were officer penal companies, non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Sometimes, for tactical reasons, they were united in a battalion. It is clear that these units were sent to the very inferno, without covering artillery, tanks and aircraft.

There were also penal units in the SS forces. The most famous of them was the battalion of Dirlewanger, "famous" for the atrocities against the civilian population. Dirlewanger himself served a sentence for rape in his youth, and the entourage chose an appropriate one for himself.
By the way, quite a lot has been written about these non-humans. What this demonic spawn did in Belarus defies description and generally goes beyond human understanding.

This is just general information about the German penalty box. The Fritz also had foreign detachments that sat behind them and shot their own retreating ones; German penalty soldiers were also used in the “quick” clearing of Russian minefields.

Like this. It’s just that among the Novo-Rassian libertarians and stupid single-celled individuals praying to the “holy” West, it is not customary to talk about this truth. There they have a tolerant, crap-cratic truth - As the owner from overseas said, consider it the truth, and squeal about this “truth” from all the media paid by the overseas owner and fool normal Russian people with this nausea of ​​his.
Fortunately, not everyone in the country and many understand what’s what. Fortunately.

[stalkerwalker]

Quote: rodevaan

This is just general information about the German penalty box.

[zao74]

Dedicated to fools who dream of victory over Russia... Think again, a hundred times, before attacking Russia. We have a huge country, and its size is comparable to our love for it. This is our MOTHER, and to die for MOTHER in battle is an honor for a Russian.

[rodevaan]

We are Russians - God is with us! This means the forces of nature, the forces of justice, and a well-deserved victory!
Western subhumans never learned history well. Neither the experience of Napoleon, nor Charles 12, nor the Poles of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, nor the huge pile of Russian-Ottoman wars, nor the sad experience of the Golden Horde and other “khanates,” nor the raids of dog knights that have sunk into the past. All this and many other packs of enemies that I have not mentioned, attacking us at all times with some stubborn mutton stupidity, in the end they certainly got punched in the horns and ended up in their own lair. Now, along these same long-trodden paths, the next transatlantic civilizers-crap-cartizers, headed by the State Department, are walking, so that someday (God forbid, of course!), like all the above-mentioned comrades, throw up their hands on the ruins of their own capital and declare how can this be , the Russians beat us.... But we were so very, very, very shitty...

Let Bismarck be read more... He was a smart guy. And perhaps one of the only foreigners who really understood well what Russia is and the Russian character.

[Vendora]

It was difficult to even get the cards, as the Russians kept them under a big secret. The maps we had were often incorrect and misleading.
complete nonsense - their cards were great. The entire territory of the USSR was better studied and mapped by them than by ours. German expeditions worked very actively in our country before the war. And even now all sorts of people are climbing everywhere. I myself met Anlo-Saxons on the northern rivers. What were they doing there???

[asadov]

If only the courage and dedication of the Russian soldier were added to the responsibility for the competence of senior commanders, then he would be invincible

[Schweik]

This means both the forces of nature and the forces of justice

and probably the power of the earth

[Setrac]

Quote: Schweik

and probably the power of the earth

And also the power of water, air and fire, the power of life, necromancy, rune magic... .
Sorry for offtopic.

[Bern]

Quote: Setrac

Quote: Vladimirets

I do not want.
The title of the article:
"Russian soldiers through the eyes of the Germans"

The article should have been titled "How the Germans Shift the Responsibility for Their Shortcomings and Blunders onto the Russian People, the Russian Country and the Russian Weather."

They had one mistake - crossing the border of the USSR on June 22, 41.

[Dr. Manoff]

From the beginning, everyone always underestimated us, and the Germans too, but then they were afraid to leave.

[AntonR7]

Very interesting comments. For anyone who is interested in history and enjoys reading about us from the outside, as they say, I recommend reading the book of the German historian Paul Karel. Book in 2 volumes "Eastern Front". Written based on the memories of German soldiers and officers.
From this book I really remember the memory of the platoon mute. a medic who described such a case in the battle of Kursk: In their platoon there was a very brave soldier who had stuttered all his life since childhood; during the battle he heard the groans of the wounded and ran in that direction to provide help; there he saw this soldier who was lying with a laceration stomach wound, seeing the medic for the first time, the soldier told him without stuttering and pointing his head towards the dead Russian soldier - “This Russian rushed at me with a grenade in his hand” - admiration for the Russian’s courage was heard in his voice, after a moment he was silent. the soldier died.

By the way, in the early days the main cannon in the German army was 37mm; it had proven itself very well in previous campaigns, but as soon as the T-34 tanks were encountered, the Germans called this cannon a mallet. Since more than 20 hits on the tank had no effect and only hits on the caterpillar or the base of the turret and hull, which led to the immobilization of the turret, the tank could be stopped.

[Was mammoth]

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Quote: mehanik27

What does the leadership of the country have to do with it when it comes to the very beginning of the war ... a lot of the leadership has directed on June 22 in the Brest Fortress, for example (except for the regimental link) ????

Without diminishing the feat of the defenders of the Brest Fortress, I want to ask a question: what tactical or strategic benefit did this battle bring?

At a minimum, it was a moral Victory over the enemy. This and other feats of our people laid the foundation for Victory.

[Spike]

Whoever comes to Us with a sword will die by the sword!!!

[Spike]

Whoever comes to Us with a sword will die by the sword!!!

[slvevg]

The Germans attacked on June 22 - the day of the Slavic holiday of Ivan Kupala, which predetermined all subsequent history, and the best astrologers in Germany advised Hitler on this date! The NKVD rules!

[Feka]

Hello everyone
There is such a group “Constellation” (who hasn’t heard the former “13th Constellation”), there is a song “4th Day of War”, I highly recommend it, everything is simply said, what is there to argue about?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T109zp07UyM

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

the main reward for any soldier is recognition of his merits by the enemy

[olegxp]

For the sake of objectivity, anyone who has read the German memoirs himself knows: the most flattering paragraphs from the thick volumes are tampered with. There is much more negativity there. Offhand I remember they spoke very poorly about the abilities of our high command, especially at the beginning. And among the soldiers they noted a certain tendency to panic. Although the German generals are offended people, it is difficult to say how objective their assessments are.

[RUS-36]

Mikhail Grigorievich Efremov
Death of a General

On April 13, 1942, the front headquarters gave the 33rd Army permission to leave the encirclement. Efremov ordered to leave in separate groups. When leaving the encirclement, General Efremov received three wounds and lost the ability to walk on his own. The soldiers carried him on their shoulders.

On April 19, the ring closed around Efremov’s group, soldiers and officers entered into battle, first with weapons, then, when the cartridges ran out, in hand-to-hand combat, and died. When trying to take Efremov prisoner, the general killed several German soldiers who approached him and shot himself. (version of his death)

Efremov was buried behind the altar of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Slobodka, Smolensk region, within the walls of which the Germans kept prisoners of the "Efremovites".

The funeral took place with military honors. The German general addressed his soldiers in German: “Fight for Germany the way Efremov fought for his Russia.”

The word was given to one of the captured soldiers of Efremov’s army. The soldier went to the grave of his army commander and said that Efremov had sent the banners of the 33rd Army to the rear, with which Soviet troops would soon continue offensive battles and destroy German troops in Berlin. The German military leader listened to the translation gloomily. The German soldiers fired three shots from machine guns.

ETERNAL MEMORY TO THE DEFENDERS OF THE MOTHERLAND-RUSSIA

[olegxp]

An interesting thing on this topic: if you read the memories of veterans, on the same site “I remember” is a standard question about attitudes towards the enemy, almost all veterans (winners!!) speak very respectfully of the Germans as warriors. The Germans (defeated! !) in his memoirs, interviews, etc. They don’t express even a tenth of that “professional” respect. Anyone who doubts can see for himself. So there’s no point in scratching your pride too much. The Germans were afraid of us, yes, from the second half of the war. We were highly respected by the masses as tough warriors, it’s unlikely

[Ram chandra]

Quote: avia12005

The Russians had many Mongols and Turkmens. Mongols and Turkmens, backed up by commissars, are a terrible thing.

This meant Kazakhs and Turkmens (+ other allied descendants of the Turks).

[alite]

Buryats are the same as Mongols. The Nazi doesn’t care what nations the Mongoloids are divided into. The Kazakhs are also a vinigret of nations. The main thing is that we were together and won together.

[alite]

Quote: Setrac

To exaggerate the greatness of the enemy in order to exalt is an old propaganda device.

[alite]

Quote: alitet

Quote: Setrac Exaggerating the greatness of the enemy in order to rise above is an old propaganda technique.

The most terrible and criminal thing is to underestimate the enemy. Those senior commanders in the Red Army who carefully studied the German army and its combat experience and loudly discussed their own shortcomings before the war ended up in camps or shot. You know what the people paid for it.

[Semyon Albertovich]

The cruelty of the Germans / and their satellites Hungarians, Romanians, etc. / in the occupied territories had no analogues in world history. Until recently, in Russia an evil, cruel person was called a GERMAN. WHO DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THIS OR DOESN'T WANT TO UNDERSTAND is DOOMED to experience it the hard way - there will be no turning back.

[VADIMKRSK]

I READ WITH INTEREST...

[Alexsis06121970]

When the Americans entered the war with Japan, all their Japanese citizens were sent to concentration camps, just in case, and this is the citadel of “democracy”, study history.

[Alexsis06121970]

When the Americans entered the war with Japan, all citizens of Japanese descent were sent to concentration camps just in case, and this is the “citadel of democracy.” Learn history, read carefully, draw conclusions

[gorsten79]

What kind of respect are we talking about among the Germans for their opponents, if you read what they did with our prisoners. I have a book by the Israeli historian Aron Schneer, “Captive”. There are 600 pages of such horror, I have never seen this in American horror films. There are almost no pictures .And I read somewhere else that if a German soldier-guard showed sympathy for the prisoners, either the front or the camp was waiting for him. I don’t remember, someone has a story “A German in Felt Boots.” So he went into the barracks, saw our prisoner with frostbitten toes - He sat down and showed his friends, like he froze near Moscow and then gave him some bread and something. Not much. Then after some time they brought his German without his jacket. In short, his comrades accepted him. And they beat ours. I just can’t imagine what was there There was respect both for opponents. The Death’s Head also fought and was involved in guarding the camps. I’m not saying that there weren’t sympathizers, respecters, but if the percentage was several times higher. And so they were subhuman, half-animals. There was a fear that they would have to answer. Yes, really any " a normal thug in his right mind will write how many people he actually killed.