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It looks like it was ripped from a bad VHS copy.

Stalin was brilliant at saying one thing but behavior was often the opposite. Stalin believed that war was the best means to advance Russia and Communist agenda. There is strong evidence that he wanted a WW3 when he died / was killed. Both systems suck. But the concentration of power in one party is always bad for the citizens.

@@miguelservetus9534 Stalin was not such a person. I have a book comparing both Hitler and Stalin as a political science student there are great differences in their systems. Hitler system was fraudulent because it attempted to rewrite what defines socialism. Private interest was greatly involved in Hitler's system as long it served nationalistic goals of Hitler's Greater Germany. Hitler's system did not tolerate non-germans. The previous was well known even in his treatise - Mein Kamph. Stalin, in comparison, concentrated in economic changes within Russia itself in the viewpoint of dialectical historical materialism. The previous seemed counter democratic because many Russians opposed the new system as they were just tasting liberal capitalism from the monarchic system. The similar reaction to population shifting from monarchy to liberal democracy (which also introduces liberal capitalism - Adam Smith) as what happened in France. Stalin said one thing but the military force under him went over the limits. It is called 'ride roughshod' an unethical practice by those in administrative and local policing which goes enthusiastically over board to impress or other factors. The system, the new system, will not be perfect as was the transition from monarchy to liberal democracy in other countries.

That's true but that battle cost the US more than 75,000 casualties. It shows you how amazing the German military machine was.

They were spread far too thin, especially East and West, with both fronts closing in on them and still holding out in Italy. I believe they still had troops tied up in Denmark and Norway until the end of the war as well, which probably served no practical purpose by then.

@@mikeandrews2851 It cost the Germans over 100,000 and more importantly the diversion of resources simplified things for the Red Army in the east.

@@stevekaczynski3793 that's true. But the if the West wasn't addressed the allies would come into Germany probably after Christmas. This attack did great damage to there coming Allied offense.

and in "Bridge of Remagen", his name is Hans Christian Blech.

@@juansantos-lq2kz no.

@@TheTarget1980 My mistake.

@@juansantos-lq2kz no problem :)

We knew that. That's how he got the scars

We knew that. That's how he got the scars.

@Joe Curr How do you know he was a hero? He served on the Eastern Front, it's just as likely he was involved in mass murders.

Another fun fact: He was Major Werner Pluskat in that other great war film The Longest Day, playing the first German officer to see the Allied D-Day invasion fleet heading straight for him and his command at the Normandy beachheads.

... and for the trifecta, he played Hauptmann (Captain) Schmidt, in "The Bridge at Remagen." One of his earliest appearances in an American-produced World War II film was as the opportunistic German POW turned spy, "Tiger," in "Decision Before Dawn." (Stars: Oskar Werner, Richard Basehart, and Gary Merrill, circa 1950; by 20th Century Fox.)

Was this during his alcoholism?