Repeat after me. More people speak English than people speaking Russian. There are more countries/ people outside of England (and Canada, Australia and NZ) and US who speaks English than countries outside of the former Union who speak Russian just by looking at the threads dealing with Pacific compared to the amount of Manchuria-threads.
So the chances that English speaking platforms are more diverse than a platform which has a minor important/ big language (regardless if Russian or German or Dutch) is⌠lets say higher in the first one. And well. They are all more or less united in having basically anything as new campaign than Manchuria or actually another German-Soviet campaign, regardless where they live, partly even in motherland Russia.
It should be obvious at this point that English/ a international subs are more representative than a language which is not international at all. Around 240m people can speak Russian while at least 1,35b people are able to speak English. But please. Explain us how a Russian speaking community/ sub is more diverse than a English speaking community/ sub.
Btw. Still donât get why so many people think that Russian-speaking people are probably citizens of Rusia or a former Warsaw Pact nation and not a Latin America.
Well. Because we are not commie-simps believing that you can only win wars by just meat grinding untrained and low-supplied soldiers in masses all the time (and call it heroic), especially against a nation which has a way smaller and underdeveloped army. Even the Soviet High Command admitted that this victory was so bad and pathetic that they basically reverted Stalins âgreatâ improvements in the Red Army.
And the 2k tanks lost in the land of perkele could have been used to stop the Germans better.
And that only after they sieged Leningrad for 900 days which was one of the reasons for the war. Impressive⌠and ironic. Thats⌠uhh ass-kicking I guess. I guess we also dont wanna talk about the loss-ratio between them in the cont. war again I guess⌠oh wait.
The land of perkele. But no no. Winning is everything. Human lifes are⌠a different level. You can only win wars efficiently by losing way more people and equipment against a way smaller nation. Well. One way to get a good amount of reperations lol
Cool. So they lost significant amount of farmlands and animals in Ukraine and Belarus to the Reich (and considering the fact that the collectivism measures of Stalin leaded to mass famines and mismanagement anyway), farmers had to go to the front instead of farming and the Soviets were somehow able to counter that?
âA particular critical aspect of Lend-Lease was the supply of food. The invasion had cost the USSR a huge amount of its agricultural base; during the initial Axis offensive of 1941-42, the total sown area of the USSR fell by 41.9% and the number of collective and state farms by 40%. The Soviets lost a substantial number of draft and farm animals as they were not able to relocate all the animals in an area before it was captured and of those areas in which the Axis forces would occupy, the Soviets had lost 7 million of out of 11.6 million horses, 17 million out of 31 million cows, 20 million of 23.6 million pigs and 27 million out of 43 million sheep and goats. Tens of thousands of agricultural machines, such as tractors and threshers, were destroyed or captured. Agriculture also suffered a loss of labour; between 1941 and 1945, 19.5 million working-age men had to leave their farms to work in the military and industry. Agricultural issues were also compounded when the Soviets were on the offensive, as areas liberated from the Axis had been devastated and contained millions of people who needed to be fed. Lend-Lease thus provided a massive number of foodstuffs and agricultural productsâ
Yeah⌠no.
I was talking about Moscow.
" According to the Russian historian Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Lend-Lease had a crucial role in winning the war:
On the whole the following conclusion can be drawn: that without these Western shipments under Lend-Lease the Soviet Union not only would not have been able to win the Great Patriotic War, it would not have been able even to oppose the German invaders, since it could not itself produce sufficient quantities of arms and military equipment or adequate supplies of fuel and ammunition. The Soviet authorities were well aware of this dependency on Lend-Lease. Thus, Stalin told Harry Hopkins [FDRâs emissary to Moscow in July 1941] that the U.S.S.R. could not match Germanyâs might as an occupier of Europe and its resources.[35]
Nikita Khrushchev, having served as a military commissar and intermediary between Stalin and his generals during the war, addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs:
I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalinâs views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were âdiscussing freelyâ among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germanyâs pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I donât think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.[45]
Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference during 1943, acknowledged publicly the importance of American efforts during a dinner at the conference: âWithout American machines the United Nations could never have won the war.â[46][47]
In a confidential interview with the wartime correspondent Konstantin Simonov, the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov is quoted as saying:
Today [1963] some say the Allies didnât really help us ⌠But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war.[48]
David Glantz, the American military historian known for his books on the Eastern front, concludes:
Although Soviet accounts have routinely belittled the significance of Lend-Lease in the sustainment of the Soviet war effort, the overall importance of the assistance cannot be understated. Lend-Lease aid did not arrive in sufficient quantities to make the difference between defeat and victory in 1941â1942; that achievement must be attributed solely to the Soviet people and to the iron nerve of Stalin, Zhukov, Shaposhnikov, Vasilevsky, and their subordinates. As the war continued, however, the United States and Great Britain provided many of the implements of war and strategic raw materials necessary for Soviet victory. Without Lend-Lease food, clothing, and raw materials (especially metals), the Soviet economy would have been even more heavily burdened by the war effort. Perhaps most directly, without Lend-Lease trucks, rail engines, and railroad cars, every Soviet offensive would have stalled at an earlier stage, outrunning its logistical tail in a matter of days. In turn, this would have allowed the German commanders to escape at least some encirclements, while forcing the Red Army to prepare and conduct many more deliberate penetration attacks in order to advance the same distance. Left to their own devices, Stalin and his commanders might have taken twelve to eighteen months longer to finish off the Wehrmacht; the ultimate result would probably have been the same, except that Soviet soldiers could have waded at Franceâs Atlantic beaches.[49]"
Meh. Iâm like still waiting how to balance either the Soviets not seal clubbing Japan or balancing the Japanese Army to make them somewhat competitive without adding fantasy and illogical stuff; and how many maps Df needs to invent to keep the content machinery afloat.
learn that 244m is less than 1,35b in the meantime.
