aribenzane Says:
Mar 23, 2008 - Stalin was the worst of the worst. He executed vast hordes of people on a whim and condemned millions to starvation in his collective farm programs and industrialization. It's a shame that history tends to brush over these crimes because of his partnership with the allies against the Nazis. Even Hitler wouldn't have been allowed to purge his armies like Stalin did! It's a crying shame that Stalin was never made to pay for his crimes...
SgtSanchez Says:
Mar 23, 2008 - "No man, no problem" In the words of Stalin himself.
zaamael Says:
Mar 23, 2008 - It wasn't a whim, he had a very methodical purpose in doing those things.
Pythonanchietae Says:
Mar 24, 2008 - Especially as France Benelux Denmark and Poland are well known producers of food stuffs.Maybe they meant raw materials but European Russia isn't rich of oil too.The whole empire was dependant on Baku oil fields.Hitler had Ploesti fields Norway's heavy water and Sweden's iron so i agree it's a poor excuse.
SSKaizer Says:
Mar 24, 2008 - Weren't partisans blowing trains and railway lines cutting supplies to the front? If so, I think that would be a huge blow, since 1 train load is a huge amount of supplies.
aribenzane Says:
Mar 24, 2008 - What was his purpose for purging the army of almost every officer? Or murdering 79 of the 80 members of the Military Soviet? Or starving 2 million farmers to death as a result of his incompetent 5 year plan? By doing all this, he created fear and the people close to him would dare not say anything other than what Stalin wanted to hear. He surrounded himself with a bubble and was never told the truth.
Pythonanchietae Says:
Mar 24, 2008 - The partisan movement in the whole Europe except from Yugoslavia and Poland had minimal effect on Nazi war machine.(Especially when we talk about Scandinavia and Low countries). In any case transportations even in the less secure occupation zones were running smoothly.The only reason i see as a serious one is that he expected USSR to join the allies and rushed to strike first.
DataWaveTaGo Says:
Mar 24, 2008 - Hitler's Vision was always new living space in the East.
DataWaveTaGo Says:
Mar 24, 2008 - Hitler's Vision was always new living space in the East.
zaamael Says:
Mar 25, 2008 - you answered your own question. Stalin did what he did to create fear of him and solidify his position of power. He believed that anyone questioning him would undermine his authority so he acted to insure that his fears wouldn't come to pass.
aribenzane Says:
Mar 25, 2008 - But it was self-defeating as I said. Hitler was in a similar situation but at least some of his officers did stand up to him.
jonathanroan8 Says:
Mar 25, 2008 - Absolutly amazing...love all your vids...
TheOnlyLoneSolja Says:
Mar 29, 2008 - what does "Sued for peace" mean
flyzies Says:
Mar 29, 2008 - All the officers that stood up to Hitler were ultimately fired. Hitler proved in the end he was incompetent as Stalin when it came to military affairs.
JSLegoMaster Says:
Mar 29, 2008 - If stalin didn't kill 50precent of all his officers in 1937, then he could probaly hold the operation barbarossa.
Clausewitzz Says:
Mar 29, 2008 - Like said before in the comments here there were many reason why Stalin did what he did. But you can also say if Hitler didnt gave the order to see every living human in the east as an enemy and killed miilions (far more then all the jews in the holocaust) he might gotten full support from many and even more ressistance against Stalin from his own people, the german troops were welcomed as liberators by masses in the first weeks of Barbarossa, untill it slowly became clear they were not.
FutureWarrior2006 Says:
Mar 30, 2008 - Basically admiting you got your ass kicked and begging for mercy.
FutureWarrior2006 Says:
Mar 30, 2008 - He barely held Moscow during Operation Barbarossa. What many people don't seem to understand is that good officers died alongside the bad ones during the Great Purges. When he killed the professional officers he replaced them with loyalists to communist party in order to strengthen his hold on the USSR. If there had been no Winter War then the USSR would have been taken out during Operation Barbarossa.
mustwinder Says:
Mar 31, 2008 - Had Stalin even thought about preparing for a possible German invasion, even when there were three million troops on his doorstep, he might have been able to put up more of a fight. Stalin was an idiot, a coward and a liar, he relied on his best generals to fight the war for him.
mustwinder Says:
Mar 31, 2008 - Hitler sacked more generals in WW2 than there were quarterbacks sacked in the NFL last season.
stuka80 Says:
Apr 5, 2008 - i love battlefield I, much more detailed and well presented than battlefield II, which seem like it's rushed and less professional.
sdreg Says:
Apr 7, 2008 - and the tune is better in BF1
ace11rothstein Says:
May 19, 2008 - Simple, there is no oil in Poland, France, or the low countries. Meanwhile the Caucasus region of which Russia owns a piece is rich with oil.
Clausewitzz Says:
Jun 7, 2008 - It was the goal of operation Blau (in 1942) to cut of those oil supply lines from the Soviets. The operation had it chance, Stalingrad could have been taken in advance and the oil lines could have been cut off as well, but delays and change of orders (mostly by Hitler himself) made it sure the offensive came to a halt and would end in Stalingrad as a total failure. I believe the Caucasus was the biggest oil source in the world those days, and Germany really needed oil at that point:p
aribenzane Says:
Mar 23, 2008 - How could it be that the combined output of Poland, France and the Low Countries was insufficient to support the Reich? That's a poor excuse for Barbarossa.