Hello everyone IMO Stalingrad is more important battle than Kursk. Before Stalingrad there was year and a half of war in which period Red army...
It looks like I was misunderstood. I wanted to point out that it wasn't ONLY soviet militarism and their desire for conquest/spreading of...
I was also reflecting on these questions.. While IMO the greatest blame must be on Stalin, how the external circumstances affeted what was...
Well percepted. I would only partialy disagree regarding bombing campaign. The west was also from military point of wiev conducting a total war,...
IMO it is imposible to compare rule of Hitler and Stalin for the soviet nations. It's not war of dictators or the matter of choosing the tyrant...
Thanks for correction. I thought that plural is spelled corpses.
Soviet tank/mechanized corps were either independant units or organic components of tank armies. In 1942 tank corps had 2 tank brigades and one...
Yes, Soviets simplified it's force structure and elaborate theories temporarily in 1941 because of lack of weaponry , initiative and officers to...
Yes, Stalin was far sighted about this. Still it was Tukhackevsky and others who persuaded him to devote a big part of first and second five year...
LJAd I think Halder from 41 isn't the smartest guy around here, because we have complete picture of both armies and the hindsight on what was...
Sloboda narodu! ( a second part to the salute, and also used as a response to the first part for recognition, like pasword. Means: Freedom to the...
Very good movie Tamino! About the POWs.. Out of 5.2 million Soviet prisoners, about 3 million died in German hands, or wll over 50%, 600 000 of...
One of the reasons why Glantz is my favorite eastern front researcher is because he has previleged acces to russian/soviet archives like barely...
Soviet victory in '43 is just my prediction in a what if scenario, nothing else. I don't think Stalin or Hitler were stupid, but they were...
Concept was partly faulty, but Blitzkrig also neglected defence and orientated to offencive, and no one is questioning the soundness of that, just...
This is rubbish :) He is comparing soviet machanized corpses from early and mid 30s with final product of panzer division. In that time panzer...
John Simkin writes about 30 000 officers executed, Ekatarina Gracheva writes abut 50 % of total number of officer executed, globalsecurity.org...
Well it's really hard to prove anything but I am a beliver :) Yes, nice comparison. This is also one of the reasons for '41 defeats(also army...
There are no real proofs but these are my assesments of the Stalins negative impact on various aspects of military planing and development, based...
Glantz actually says 35 000 killed or put to GULAG + 10 000 discharged. Of course this was the cream of the officer corps and not just any...
