Russian WW2 interesting stats and facts

Here´s what we discussed earlier about Tigers...

http://www.ww2f.com/information-requests/14400-operation-winterstorm-tiger-tank.html

 

Gestapo-NKVD Conferences: Information and Much More from Answers.com

Third Conference

This one is the best known, and took place in Zakopane, starting on February 20, 1940 in the villa “Pan Tadeusz”, located on the road from Zakopane to Białka Tatrzańska.

According to several sources, one of the effects of this conference was the German ''Ausserordentliche Befriedungsaktion (see: German AB Action operation in Poland) and the Soviet Katyn massacre (a number of historians, including Norman Davies, claim that these two events were carried out cooperatively). Also, both sides agreed in the final protocol that the Polish nation should be completely moved out by the year 1975, either by mass murders or by deportations to remote areas of Siberia (by that year, 95% of the Poles still alive were going to be deported to the shores of the Jana river, located in northern Siberia, about two thousand miles north of Vladivostok).

 

Brothers in Arms! If this is backed by Robert Conquest then I'll buy it.

 

From Molotov´s speech after Winter War:

The war in Finland took a big toll both on us and the Finns. According to estimates of our General Staff, the number of those fallen and fatally wounded is on our side 48,745, thus somewhat less than 49,000 persons and the number of the wounded is 158,863 persons. On the Finnish side efforts are made to diminish the number of their victims, but their casualties are far bigger than ours. According to the most cautious calculations by our General Staff the number of those fallen is at least 60 thousand, not counting the fatally wounded, and the number of the wounded is at least 250,000. When you start from the fact that the number of the Finnish army has been at least 600 thousand men, you have to draw a conclusion that the Finnish army lost half its ranks as killed or wounded.

Such are the facts.

Molotov's speech after Finnish Winter War@Everything2.com

 

Some pics....

 

That must have been a misarable ride going down the railroad tracks in the cold ! Thanks for posting them.

 

Talk about a posed photo

 

Three Orders of Glory? Wow!


The lady is fingering the Order of the Red banner, and on the right breast are two O. Patriotic War. This guy was lucky to be alive!!


Only Bob Hope and Ginger Rogers are missing!


Alles kaput!


Swords into ploughshares, so to speak.

 

Za i found a nice site:

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Great site! On the first photo the guy on the right is Gen V.I.Chuikov (later Marshall), at the time commanding 62th Army at Stalingrad. A pretty Papahka he's wearing, tried to buy one but it cost a lot.

Ask Slonik for a translation, he's more qualified

 

I have visited the sight in question. The language is Ukranian and it has a lot of slang which even I can not understand. Also ( which is very weird ) its not all cyrillic as I have seen a couple of "j's" and other letters in there which are simply not in the alphabet.

Go figure......

 

On the evening before the attack ( Barbarossa ) Hitler walked over to his living room after dinner with Speer and played a few bars of Liszt´s Préludes to him: " You will get to hear this often in the near future, because it will be our victory fanfare for the Russian campaign."

Speer- The Final verdict by Fest

 

RADIO MOSCOW IN THE WAR YEARS

Gradually, as the Soviet troops won back the enemy-occupied territories, the audience of Radio Moscow expanded to include more countries. In April 1942 Radio Moscow reported the victory in the Battle of Moscow in Japanese. In the course of 1942 it launched broadcasts in Urdu, Hindi and Hindustani. In August 1943, after the victorious Battle of Kursk and in the early days of Soviet offensive on the Dnieper, Radio Moscow started broadcasting in Arabic, and in autumn 1943 – in Danish.

News of the capture of Berlin and the subsequent surrender of Nazi Germany and the Victory Day was broadcast by Radio Moscow in twenty-nine foreign languages.

 

"Once, to my horror, I saw thugs tying the hands of three prisoners to the bars of a gate. When his victims had been secured, he stuck a grenade into the pocket of one of their coats, pulled the pin, and ran for shelter. The three Russians, whose guts were blown out, screamed for mercy until the last moment." Quoted from The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

 

A signed print by Finnish StuG men on Tali-Ihantala battles with tank commander Börje Brotell´s Stug in the print after destroying 10 T-34´s.

 

" The battle of Stalingrad entered its second phase at the beginning of December 1942. Because the OKH did not allow the troop commanders freedom of operation, the Germans could not take any countermeasures. Only the commander of the LI Army Corps, General of Artillery von Seydlich-Kurzbach, ordered the troops in his sector to withdraw to better defensive positions."

Army group South 1941-45 by Werner Haupt

 

November 1941. Blitzkrieg in Ost?

 

At least the snow seems to be hard enough to provide good going...