| Re: NAZI Germany In World War 2 Question [message #394543 is a reply to message #394462] |
Thu, 09 July 2009 12:03   |
Romaner
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well i lived in Russia until grade 9. then i came to Canada and continued my education here.
so i got the Russian version of WW2 then the North American version on top of that.
in my opinion germany was beat down and humiliated after ww1 and they were opressed and impoverished by the other nations. Germany at first was too weak to stand up for it so alot of poeple just remained in that position for decades.
then came Hitler, he promised to imporve everything and take Germany out of the slump, so people voted for him.
after a few years he stopped paying money to nations that Germany fucked up during ww1, and no one wanted to start another war over it so they let Hitler stop paying. After that he got even more emboldened by it and decided he will start building an army again.
Now this was not allowed by the Geneva accord or was it the treaty of Versailles i cant remember.
Yet again all the allied nations turned their back to this bold statement because doing anything about it was risking to go to war again, and France and Britain were reluctant to do that because they had not yet recovered from ww1.
now originally Stalin and Hitler had an agreement where Hitler was going to take over Europe and they were going to split Poland right down the middle, and Russia would claim Georgia, Ukraine and those countries close to it.
Now because of that agreement Stalin didnt think Hitler would open up on two fronts and betray him, so because of that Stalin had 40% of his army on the east coast ready to fight Japan.
Hitler emboldened by the success of his blitzgriek campaign in France decided that he was ready for a two front war and attacked Russia.
Stalin was caught off guard with that and his first priority became to protect oil assests because otherwise he had no chance to even survive let alone win the war.
that is why Stalin ordered to hold on to Stalingrad (now named Volgograd) at all costs.
also someone was right saying that Russian soldiers were not equiped properly. what hapenned was one would get the rifle with a single bullet the other would get the mag, so they had to work in teams of 2 and when one would die the other would get both ammo and gun.
you were never allowed to run back, not even turn and look back or you would be labelled a deserter and shot on the spot.
The real downfall of Hitler was that 1, he stopped to help Mussollini in Turkey i believe it was.
2. was that he didnt stop advancing deeper into Russia, and ended up advancing faster than his supply lines.
when the Russians were in retreat they burned everything they could on the way back, they burned countless cities when they retreated.
hell they burned half of Moscow because the Germans were on the outskirts of the city. During that time the city of Yaroslavol became a temporary acting capital of Russia. that is the city where i was born.
i could go on, but my lunch break is now over lol
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