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@@abdiganiaden Thing is, they actually planned an operation down in the south and so planning a surprise attack on the main front to break the main German army would be the best timing and absolutely genius. They did it at e same time which also prevented Germans from sending reinforcements from south to the area where the main attack was cos they were also under heavy attack.
Germany fell into one of the oldest tactics. Send 20% army to point A and make as much noise as possible, while the remaining 80% at the same time surround and capture point B as quick as possible before move and assist point A. This method is in Arts of War Sun Tzu.
@@pablogonzalez2226 China knows with Biden at the helm, they can waltz into Taiwan as Putin can waltz into the Ukraine if they choose to, at a time of their choosing.
Reminds me of growing up watching Family guy and American dad: the graphics would get better and better/ more high definition each season. Animation is cool stuff.
at barbarossa they lost their ability to conduct major offensive action on a wide front, at stalingrad and kursk (belgogrod) they lost their ability to conduct major offensive action on a limited front and at the battle for hungary (more precisely the budapest breakthrough/reconnection attempt) the german army even lost it's ability to conduct minor offensive action on a limited front, after that point they were a defending force, not a fighting/attacking one
I'm seeing a lot of complaints that we didn't call out the Soviets for failing to support the Warsaw Uprising. In several weeks we're going to release a video specifically on Life in German-Occupied Poland where we will more properly address this.
Thank you for addressing this as I was about to make a comment regarding the lack of attention on the Soviets decision to allow the Warsaw uprising to be crushed.
I've read that the Germans were actually producing enough tanks to replace losses on the Eastern Front, but they didn't have the infrastructure, crews or fuel to get them there. Is this accurate?
@@ПавелК-123 I see. He knows a lot of stories about this operation then. My great grandpa served for British India in the Imphal battle against the Japanese
Fun Fact: Operation Bagration was named after Pytor Bagration, a great general that served the Russian Imperial army in the late 1700s to the early 1800s.
@@thehistorybuilder6390 Yes, you already said that and I'm fully aware of this. :P It's just that he was a prince of Bagration dynasty, and even less people know about this Georgian dynasty than Pyotr himself.
@Moritz der Echte yh russia invaded the Balkan and with the help of Bulgarian revolutionaries and partisans they broke through the ottoman defence line and stopped their attack only 100 km from Konstantinopel
It’s good to see more and more light being shed on Bagration. It’s tough to visualize just how massive of a loss this way. An entire Army Group, Army Group Center, the Army Group that had tormented the Russians since June of ‘41, was effectively expunged.
@@artinrahideh1229 It’s interesting that we make that distinction. The phrase “Soviet” or “Soviet Army” wasn’t adopted until 1946 and as far as composition wise, the Red Army was dominated by Russians. The Wehrmacht Heer and SS had many Austrians, Czechs, Belgians, etc etc but we still refer to them as “The Germans”. Origin, composition and phraseology of the time contribute to that.
@@nateweter4012 whilst the majority were ethnic Russians, the totality was not. There were more ethnicities than I can be bothered counting: Uzbeks, Georgians, Armenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, etc. They fought under the Soviet flag, not the Russian flag, so I think it's not fair to those ethnic minorities to white-wash them as "the Russian army."
I really love the detail at 15:47 with the soviet flag, it's not the soviet flag people tend to picture which came about in 1955, it's the older one, which is only slightly different but the variant of the hammer and sickle is different, and I just like that attention to detail.
Agreed. This is the hammer and sickle variant that was widely used under General Secretary Stalin's consolidation in office from '36 up until two years after his death in '55.
Try countering outside Minsk with ur 5 heavy tonks outside Minsk at the north, and pin the force from inside the pocket, then with the red army encircled, and hopefully destroyed, you do a standard push back on the southern pincer. Then while the Soviet offensive is stalled near minsk, use the forces near romanis and bessarabia to counter the Soviet forces and advance into Ukraine. That's my thought process if this was hoi4, but I doubt it would work irl
@@noodled6145 As a Soviet player, I almost always invade Poland in 1936 and turn France Communist, and turn Poland into Communist puppet, by 1939 Communist Poland has built up a decent army, and we got Germany surrounded hard.
There biggest problem was in the early days they were constantly on the defensive. By this stage of the war, they were following exactly the doctrine the army had been designed for.......with devastating results. It did not help that the Russian people were starting to discover what the Germans had been doing in the conquered areas. Nothing like a cranky Russian to mess with your day.
yep you gotta admit communist and yes Stalin did agreat job of building upp that army.central planning helped as fuk also, just to mobilize population and industry. dont get me wrong Stalin was fuktard of a human being, but he exceled in that role, when its war.lol.
@@glenchapman3899 The German position at this stage in the war looks very weak indeed. They were trying to defend a huge front with dwindling forces. Once the Soviets started the big push, the only effective strategy was to pull back to Poland and prepare a better defence for the advance. As we know the German high command was tightly controlled by the Nazi leadership and the invasion of the USSR was deeply flawed and its cruel and barbarous actions on the indigenous population entirely counterproductive. Such a fall back would not be countenanced and any opportunity of seeking terms to end the fighting not an option.
In the West, of course, the same as Vasilevsky. But the operation itself was developed by the head of the Operations Directorate and Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Strategic Planning Alexei Innokentievich Antonov. The rest was already corrected directly at the front.
@@michabiaczynski9990 bla bla bla soviet repressions against polish people... Soviet marshal Rokossovsky an ethical Polish.... Soviet ideology was never built on hate to other nations, but on class ideology.
Germany: Man, all you really need to deal with these Reds is a few dozen mines, am I right, boys? T-34 Mine Flail Tanks: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
@@elseggs6504 When and where were minesweeper machines like that used before Operation Overlord? I've never heard them mentioned in any other context before that.
@@megajimmyfive Yea, the Russians had been developing a mineroller since the Winter War and started building them for T-34's in 1942. Hardly a new invention though, the British already saw the use for Mineroller tank during WW1 but the Armistice happened before they could be used in battle.
@@SuperGman117 This actually makes a tonne of sense, but even if the heart attack may not have killed him, it still would have paralysed him long enough to fall into the water and drown.
There seems to be a misconception about the Russian "Ura" battle cry. They didn't shout "Uh! RAh! Uh! RAh!" in unison like line infantry would do in the past to keep the cadence. It was usually one officer shouting a motivational slogan (think something like "Fowards brothers/comrades, for the motherland!") followed by a long "Uraaaaaaaa!" after which the men would begin shouting "Uraaaaaaa!" on their own time. The fact that it sounded like a chaotic howling and not a united chant was actually more frightening to the enemy. Made it sound like there were more soldiers than there actually were, at the same time making the enemy feel like they were attacked by a horde of mindless fearless blood thirsty beasts. "The Russians are not men, but some sort of cast iron creatures; they never get tired, and are not afraid of fire"
To be fair this misconception is somewhat based on the reality. If you look at Russian military parades you can hear a "triple ura" which consists of two short ones and one long one. And the short ones sound quite close to what is in this video.
@@ptyzix Yes that is true. On parades you have to march in unison and chant in unison. That's the hole point of a parade. During an infantry charge, the tactical doctrine of the Red Army in WW2 dictated that once the attacking infantry has gotten whitin 100 meters of the enemy, the command to charge is to be given and the infantry is to charge at the enemy with battle cries and "destroy him at close range with rifles, grenades and bayonets" . Unlike the Americans, who relied on superior firepower and overwealmed the enemy with huge volumes of fire until they retreated or surrendered, the Soviets had their infantry charge and overrun the enemy position, flushing them out at close range with all available weapons. This is partly where the myth of the Soviet human wave comes from. Back to the battle cries, they were continious and loud, which increased the morale of the attacking soldiers, reduced the chances of them breaking off the assault once casualties have been taken and also demoralised the enemy.
@@ptyzix That was also practiced by other armies, the Romanian one for example, which had an identical "URA!" battle cry and also used it on the attack to motivate their infantry.
@Blesava Konjina I dom't know if it was a joke or not because the link you gave was incomplete and thus I couldn't watch whatever you linked, but there's no "H" in "URA" . If you want to write it in English, it would be something like "OORAH" , but with a very long "AH" . You basically have to scream it until you start running out of breath.
@@daniels_0399 during late war, USSR also pounds the hell out of German fortifications before attacking, with massive sticks like 203 mm or 280 mm and the frightening Katyushas.
@@Meirstein Mine-roller didn't sound as cool, though. I love mine flails. They're an amazing solution to the problem. They also have a small but hard to ignore chance of accidentally launching the mines in random directions instead of detonating them, while simultaneously smashing the fuse mech so badly you can't safely disarm them, wherever they happen to land. Highly chaotic fun for the whole platoon!
No one talks about how good the Red Army was during the second half of ww2. By 1943/44 they were the strongest army in the world. They practiced combined arms, highly motorized, highly experienced, and were tenacious. They also had something like 6 million soldiers by 1944. Without a doubt the best army in World War 2.
@@danielnavarro537 the Germans were still the best army in the world, If they had trucks and fuel in the quantity the Russians had they would of easily won the Eastern front. Good they didn't but German troops literally ran out of ammunition mowing down soviets men and armour
@@danielnavarro537 the Germans were best army to be honest Given that soviets had 9:1 superiority in artillery and 7:1 superiority in tanks and also in aircraft even than the soviets took more losses at bagration It was not something to be proud of when you have such as huge superiority Germans couldn't even use what they had due to lack of fuel and transport Germans were bombed too by Western allies Germans achieved great victories with less loss of life such as at kiev 1941 ,operation Mars and 3rd battle of kharkov
@@ericvonmanstein2112 Yeah your right but I think German military losses later on war was more than Soviets. The war of annihilation even makes German glorified for some time led to their ultimate defeats as most of the Soviet Union hated them. The bombings wouldn't gonna affect much of their supply lines, but in the battlefield Stalin admires American air superiority than his own. Their economic capabilities and pre-planning make Soviet Union powerful than Germans in economy as not most of German's economic hubs are mobilized for war. But the problem with casualties is true on Soviet sides, they lacked training as most of them are reserves with their equipments as well as allied lend-lease wouldn't gonna take effect until 1943.
@@Markov16 I agree for most part But lend lease played an absolutely huge role in Soviet military victories Zhukov said "it was Soviet artillery that won the war,but it were American trucks that moved the Soviet artillery" Lend lease is often underestimated stating that only 15 percent of Soviet military effort In reality it was much more than that The Americans and British supplied the soviets with 40 percent of steel, 70 percent of aluminium,aviation fuel , 20 million pairs of boots,and enough food for rest of war plus (15 percent tanks and other material too) Without which soviets would had to divert huge men to these things Basically Americans provided means for at least 50 percent of Soviet tanks and aircrafts and also how to run them On other hand the inefficiency of German industry was due to lack of fuel and acute labor shortage because "the Germans were not freely supplied with uniform,boots,food ,steel ,aluminium and fuel for free. Germany had to synthesize and work extremely hard for everything,so population was diverted in agriculture and other parts,Bombings effected them most Overall German economy was impressive since 1938 . The German government funded their all military operations without help from international bankers . All of the nations took help from bankers and were indepted . The German economy despite allied bombing and so many defeats didn't crash after 5 years Salaries and basic grants were given even in April 1945 .
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Germany : Blitzkrieg= pincers in double envelopement Soviet Union: deep battle: my pincers have pincers which have pincers and are at the front flank and rear
actually deep battle is not really close to blitzkrieg in actual ops there is no assumed weakpoint targeted in the enemies lines the soviets would mass reserves and use them once a break in the line was made (and usually there were multiple ones) they'd immediately surge with all available armored vehicles (tanks, IFVs,APCs) through all those lines tactics are essentially the same but you are grinding down the enemy to where theres more than one possible place to slam into (basically perfect for defending russia bad for attacking small places where supply would be an issue say belgium)
@@30cal23 Deep operation involves the interaction of different types of troops and the suppression of the enemy's defense at its entire depth. In contrast to the blitzkrieg, which involves the possibility of separating tank units from the masses of infantry or neglecting heavy artillery in favor of assault aircraft. The Soviets in Bagration actively used artillery, such as a double barrage to suppress two enemy lines at once. So a big role was played not so much by numerical superiority, but by the ability to combine the efforts of different branches of the armed forces to achieve a synergistic effect. This allowed the Soviets to complete the rearmament of the army by 1943 and the military industry to reach its maximum capacity by about the same time.
You have the freedom to do this with a overwhelming superiority - as with the initial situation during operation Bagration. Thats not a Soviet thing, thats a law of warfare...:)
@@mikeromney4712 In principle, any such operation involves the ability to concentrate superior firepower on a suitable sector of the front, to develop and consolidate success. A classic combination of fire and maneuver.
Because they want to make lame excuses that Soviets just kept sending millions of soldiers to die and Nazis ran out of bullets. Reality was Soviets had superior tactics, manpower and equipment.
@@peterlustig6888 No, the Soviets had superior tactics. They used their equipment well and also fought to the conditions. The Nazis thought they were superior to the Soviets and underestimated them
The Soviet’s had some badass military leaders during WWII. Zhukov, Vasilivesky. Rokossovsky, Konev, Vatutin, etc. The Eastern Front doesn’t get nearly as much attention in the West as it should.
There was Zhukov and almost no one else. Unlike Monty or Patton his abilities did match his press, the war would have taken much longer for Russia without Zhukov.
This is the best book on the Eastern Front: "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army stopped Hitler" by David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House. 2nd edition, 2015.
I got my cappuccino and watching this best part of the day. Such amazing content looking at different parts of history that we don't see often unless we really dig in.
@@yegorperepelytsya7812 actually in Tunisia just a couple/ few months after Stalingrad,both fought at approx same time ,the Western Allies forced the surrender of an Axis army about as large as that lost at Stalingrad
@@mikeneufield2855 if we assume hall stalingrad compaign axis lost 1,5 million soldiers dead wounded missing and captured, at stalingrad germans lost all its momentum , during kurks they lost their armoured core and pretty much last chances of winning the war
@@yegorperepelytsya7812yes nd with last months of Africa campaign the Axis ,lost probly at least 1/2 million, at same time as Stalingrad,and the Italians also lost their,last, field force then with the invasion of Sicily then Italy the Western Allies knocked Germanys only European ally out of the war and Germany then had to garrison and fight italy too, with an entire army,.the Allies also landing in Sicily on July 10th ' 43 at height of Kursk battle and Germans had to divert forces south forces they,badly, needed on the Eastern front. So it was a combined Allied effort, Western n Soviet
@VinAr Run Nice try Wehraboo. Who knew that bad weather only effects one side? And how funny that early on the Germans had larger numbers? In fact once they no longer outnumber the soviets they stop winning. Imagine that. Supplies? The soviets had lost the entire western part of their country to German occupation. But sure... those poor Germans. GTFO with this nonsense.
Don't forget that when the Soviet's were outnumbered in 41' it was referenced as "superior tactics" of Germans. Also, everyone knows the Soviet's don't suffer from the cold, therefore were unaffected by the winter of 41-42
Numbers helped. The wrong strategy with superior numbers is going to beat a good strategy with low numbers. In 41, 9m soldiers were killed or captured or missing... 7.5m of those were soviet. 7.5m out of 9m. Come 44, the soviets were still able to push 6m more to the front lines, plus 5000 tanks, plus more rugged weapon systems. At this point the Germans were down to around 2.5m troops and very quickly fell to around 1.5m. A 4:1 ratio of soviet to Germans. The generals on the ground urged Hitler to allow a retreat but Hitler declined numerous times. Basically left out to dry. If Hitler had allowed it, and the Germans could get dug in across the dnieper river, this may have allowed a higher likelihood of reconnecting a supply chain, as well as a higher concentration of troops to hold back the soviet advances. All of these factors, the higher soviet numbers and the lack of German leadership is what won. Soviet strategy wasn't completely relevant really.
I did a project on this. I was astounded at the fact that this extremely decisive battle is not covered at all here in the west very little. I mean like, 25% of German power in the East destroyed? Bruh Overlord was nothing to this
@@southerncoast822 The U.S. didn’t show up late though. Japan and Germany declared war on the U.S. The U.S. pushed the Germans, French, and Italians out of North Africa. The U.S. pushed the Germans out of Italy and France. The U.S. could have taken Berlin but Eisenhower didn’t want to. Saying the USSR beat the Germans is just revisionist history.
That’s what I thought when I learned of this from another channel (he also had the translated orders from the Soviets). It was the perfect use of “deep battle “. They destroyed more soldiers in one battle than the entirety of the rest the allies were fighting. I mean look at the Americans losing 600,000 soldiers during the entire war compared to the Soviets who lost the same in one battle (Stalingrad). That’s why Stalin was pleading to FDR and Churchill to open another front ASAP and thought they were stalling (they were ). You know the saying WWII was “won with British intelligence, American steel and Russian blood”.
@Senkan Yamato Actually during the 1944 campaign in France around 40 German divisions consisting of Panzer Army West, Seventh army and 15th Army were all gutted as fighting formations. I wouldn't say that was nothing.
I don't know why there's not alot of documentaries on operation bagration. It's a huge battle and the largest German defeat in ww2 and possibly history. I would love to see a more in depth look at everything in it. Like the officers involved, the tactics.. ect ect...
In many instances the Soviets just marched streams of soldiers over mine fields just to detonate and clear an area. Their troops were just canon fodder to them. That's why their casualties were so astronomical.
@@marksauck8481 By astronomical casualties you mean around 1:1.3 loss ratio? You've got to consider that half of europe was fighting along with germany. For example, the german losses at stalingrad were around 330.000, but axis losses were 750k-850k. Also, soviet population was literally equal to german by 1942, again, without considering the manpower of that half of europe i was talking about.
@@sovinr8658 Read the book; A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945. Check pages 72& 73 According to Russian military sources, 422,700 men died in punishment units during the war. I’ve read many books on WWII over my life time. Apparently some of you don’t do much reading.
My grandfather was in the 8th Panzer Division. He was a Panzerjager. I think at this time his division was in the 4th panzer army. The 8th panzer division and my grandfather survived until 1945 when they were captured in Brno. I asked my Opa when he knew the war was lost. He said, “After Stalingrad fell we all knew it was over. It was just a matter of time. The “alter Hase” in the units knew how to survive. We just had to hang on until it was over”
Really very interesting! This is what I wanted to know. Stalingrad? Kursk? Weissrussland? When did German understand that they had lost the war? My grandfather was in the 2nd Shock Army led by General Vlasov before his betrayal. He told me that when he had been wounded and lied down on the battlefield he thought: "It is a pity, to die at the age of 19". Thanks God, now he is almost 98 years old and well.
@@ПавелК-123 I’m so glad your grandfather survived. I know my Opa often said he had nothing but respect for the Russian soldier. I asked him one time about his tank kills and if he put rings on his barrel of his panzerjager. He said killing human beings is nothing to celebrate. He was angry that I asked that and I never asked again
@@ericshelly2518 My grandfather was one of the youngest regiment commanders of the Red Army. Lieutenant-colonel at his 30. Commander of the 1331 infantry regiment of the 318 "Novorosiyskaya" infantry division, Separate Coastal Army, 4th Ukrainian Front. He had survived surrounding of Kiev, Battle of Moscow, Stalingrad and died with his regiment storming city of Sevastopol on 9.05.1944. ..it might be that our grandfathers fought each other at Stalingrad...
bias comes from selection of events to describe, level of detail, wording, and depth of research. Also, primary sources are biased too. but he doesn't often tell people what someone's/some group's motivations were unless there's evidence for it. i agree this is excellent content
Great line from Victor Davis Hanson's book, "The Second World Wars": "What the Red Army did to the Wehrmacht terrified Europe for the next 50 years". Damn right.
The Wehrmacht was rampaging the Red Army for a good two years when force ratios weren't extremely loopsides in favour of the Red Army. Despite having an numerical advantage of over 2:1 on the whole front just before Bagration commenced, the Red Army only achieved one major breakthrough on one point which still resulted in disproprtionate casualties. Cold war military generals and historians were studying the German operational tactics, not the Soviet ones for a good reason. The Red Army's advantage lay in the extreme manpower advantage, nothing else.
@@davidjohn6913 while soviets relied on high numbers of man and equipment it wasnt everything , as stated in video deep battle is very efective strategy and germans by 1944 lost many good generals( rommel for example) , also plis dont subcribe to soviet hordes myth made by germans , only countries in ww2 who did human vawe was china and japan
As an American, I'm always blown away by how tough the Russian people are in videos like this. Massive respect. I just wish we all could just get along....
@Justus Immelmann yes, it is called alliance. Do you think the Anglo-Americans could win the war without the Eastern Front?? About the war in Afghanistan, you forgot to mention that the tribesmen were massively supported by USA... Otherwise one could say the tribesmen in Indochina kicked some American asses...
@Justus Immelmann why do you people act like this? In an alliance of three super powers each one was crucial. On top of thst what you said isnt true the american lend lease kicked in in 1943 but which point the germans were fucked. But that literally doesnt matter its the fact you show no respect to the brave russian soldiers who fought to destroy the nazis which is really embarrassing.
@Justus Immelmann Have you literally wrote something about lend lease in every single thread of that comment section? And they tell us about russian bots....
A lot of people still hold the misconception that the Russians defeated the Germans by just pouring in their troops. This is just another example of how utterly incorrect this is. The Russians beat the Germans also on the strategic and tactical levels too. Georgy Zhukov still is one of the greatest strategists to ever live.
у Германии было много войск с 41-45гг. Германии помогали Финляндия, Румыния, Италия... почти вся европа. рейхстаг защищали французы!!! у СССР было больше войск это миф. еще надо смотреть боевые потери. они равные!
@Олег Широбоков Between June 1941 and May 1945, Britain delivered to the USSR: 3,000+ Hurricanes aircraft 4,000+ other aircraft 27 naval vessels 5,218 tanks (including 1,380 Valentines from Canada) 5,000+ anti-tank guns 4,020 ambulances and trucks 323 machinery trucks (mobile vehicle workshops equipped with generators and all the welding and power tools required to perform heavy servicing) 1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada) 1,721 motorcycles £1.15bn worth of aircraft engines 1,474 radar sets 4,338 radio sets 600 naval radar and sonar sets Hundreds of naval guns 15 million pairs of boots In total 4 million tonnes of war material including food and medical supplies were delivered. The munitions totaled £308m (not including naval munitions supplied), the food and raw materials totaled £120m in 1946 index. In accordance with the Anglo-Soviet Military Supplies Agreement of June 27, 1942, military aid sent from Britain to the Soviet Union during the war was entirely free of charge.
Being a belarusian myself, it's a pleasure to watch a high-quality video about the operation that liberated my entire country from occupation Also, [bo'brujsk], [mogi'ljov] Also №2, the animation at 12:11 was legit great
@@DaniboyBR2 please, delete this dumb comment. My country regained and exceeded its production values in less than 10 years, and Minsk literally was rebuilt from the ruins. All of that mostly thanks to the materials coming from other republics while Belarus couldn't cover its own needs. If you call that slavery, I'd rather have it than what we have now.
@@MDzmitry Do you realize this was at the expense of slave labour, the death of tens of millions of people correct? I understand you wanting the best for your country but our wealth shouldn't depend on expropriation and mass murder as it often does.
Fr this is so unfair, why don’t we learn about armchair history, I clicked on this channel to learn about furniture history and I’m getting this dumb world war 2 stuff
Starts watching the video. > Wow, animation's so good. This deserves a like already. Few seconds later. > Omfg he pronounced Bagration correctly, top tier creator, how do I give a second like?!
Lmao considering the fact they made multiple amounts of "quality" variants of multiple other multiples of mulitples of equipment, it indeed made no sense.
German Production was actually over engineered, as Ball Bearings on a Panther were designed to last years, but would only survive for an equivalent number of days or weeks on the front lines. This is why Soviet tanks such as the T-34 were so successful, as they could be produced in ever increasing numbers. Coupled with the T-34 mounting the more powerful 85mm Cannon, the Germans could not hope to repel the increased firepower brought to bear against them.
@@anthonym770 The bulk of German equipment was also lost when Stalingrad fell, so the new production also went to shore up the losses instead of bolstering the front lines. The best Defense is a good Offense, and Germany would be on the defensive for the rest of the war.
Hitler: 'Well quality has a quantity of its...actually that makes no sense.' German logistical/maintenance engineers: "Quality is nice and all but CAN YOU PLEASE STOP MAKING OVERCOMPLICATED WEAPONS OF WAR?!? I WAS TRAINED TO FIX TANKS AND TRUCKS *NOT* IN-FUCKING-VENT WAYS TO FIX TANKS AND TRUCKS!"
The Soviets had learned a lot by 1944, the mine-sweeper tanks being an example. They also exploited their tactical air superiority at a time when the Luftwaffe was a dwindling force. Their artillery strength was overwhelming by the time of Operation Bagration.
@Justus Immelmann It was never to be a lasting union. When challenged to justify his alliance with Stalin, Churchill replied; "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons"
@Justus Immelmann the US squeezing South America and killing independence movements around the world to steal their resources for cheap wasn’t poverty? Many countries are still suffering criminal sanctions. The Soviet Union was destroyed by civil war and multiple invasions, including by Poland. The thanks they got for stopping the Nazi war machine was an economic blockade conjured by Churchill and Truman. Keep talking of propaganda.
"Increasingly, the situation began to resemble the summer of 1941. But now the roles were reversed; it was the Germans turn to flee in terror and confusion under incessant attack from above. And now they could expect neither respite, nor mercy."
Soviet storm :) An excellent documentary show about the whole of the war in the East, that you can find here on RUclips. Recommended to anyone interested.
Я просто удивлен. Взвешенный подход к истории без истерии и пропаганды. Не думал что такое еще возможно в англоговорящем сегменте ютуба. Спасибо автору.
@@СДЕЛАНВСССР-я9п да не, вполне объективно. По сравнению с тем что наши про запад откровенно пиздят, они говорят считай чистую правду. Есть чутка предвзятости иногда, но опять таки, ни в какое сравнение с тем, как наши откровенно чернят запад
For those of you who want a more in depth look into this battle, check out Soviet Storm: Operation Bagration. In my book it's one of the best documentaries about the Eastern Front in WW2.
@Justus Immelmann pumped is a relative term considering that both the USSR and Russian Federation paid for of lend lease in form of gold, diamonds, platinum and other rare minerals. So it wasn't exactly a charity, but more of a business transaction. Now the problem that I have with your comment is that it implies that without lend lease the USSR wouldn't have won their war against the Germans. In a way it diminishes the role the USSR played in defending it's own country and hypes up the foreign aid as the thing that changed the tide of war. And while lend lease was important, it wasn't the thing that changed the tide of war. Soviet sacrifices and planning did. The bulk of lend lease started to arrive after the battle of Stalingrad by which the Germans didn't have an avenue to victory. What lend lease did though is accelerate the soviet counter attack and a result diminishing allied casualties. Without lend lease the soviets would have taken Berlin, but in 1946 or 1947. And while the trucks were important for quickly transporting troops and supplies around, someone still has to do the killing and occupying. Aluminum and trucks don't do that on their own. And since you want to bring up the whole 125 countries GDP thing, here's a thing to chew on. The USSR killed more Nazis than the rest of the world combined.
@Justus Immelmann the Americans pump a lot of money in Iraqi and Afghan armies as well, yet they are completely shite. You need competent people to use them effectively. And as the previous comment said, it was not for free.
@Justus Immelmann I have seen everywhere that they were not only paid in gold, but also "precious metal ores" and cash some of which was even paid by the Russian Federation. So idk where you are coming from.
@@finitatem that's not the case though. The largest disparity of forces the Red Army would achieve on the eastern front was during Operation Bagration with the Red Army outnumbering the Wehrmacht about 3:1 in manpower (this is including ALL personnel not just combat personnel). The 10:1 is a myth that was developed by Wehrmacht Generals writing their "memories" in the late 40s and 50s.
Well done. My wife is from Gomel Belarus. I have traveled there many times and explored a lot and also learned some history you don't usually hear in the books. South of Bobriuck is a small village on the Berezina called Krasny Bereg. Red Beach. The Red Army caught 19000 German troops in the area and surrounded them next to the river. The Germans tried to break out one night and the Soviets were waiting. Only some 700 managed to get through the lines. It's estimated some 11000 were taken prisoner and 6000 were killed on the banks of the Berezina river.
That must have appealed to Stalin because he was Georgian too. Stalin also had a great affection for a Georgian literary figure named Koba, who was somewhat akin to a Georgian Robin Hood. Stalin used to use "Koba" to identify himself amongst his fellow Bolsheviks and some of his comrades referred to him by this name, especially in their appeals to him after he had them arrested.
my great uncles participated in Bagration. they were Jewish tractor engineers in Ukraine, they fled the Shoah and joined up with the Belarusian red army as tank operators
Germany had lost before the war even started. Their logistics capability was pathetic. As soon as they invaded the Soviet Union it was never going to end well for them. Barbarossa was a terribly planned operation.
Then again in Tunisia the Western Allies forced the surrender of an Axis army about as large as that lost at Stalingrad, just a couple/few months after Stalingrad. both battles were fought at approx the same time, with the culmination of the entire North African campaign beginning at El alamein with the Eighth Army under Montgomery and then at least another entire Allied army landed at and following Operation Torch
Fun fact: During the planning of a major Soviet offensive in 1944, a famous incident occurred that various sources consistently report in slightly different versions. Rokossovsky (born in Poland) disagreed with Stalin, who demanded in accordance with Soviet war practice a single break-through of the German frontline. Rokossovsky held firm in his argument for two points of break-through. Stalin ordered Rokossovsky to "go and think it over" three times, but every time it was the same answer. After the third time Stalin remained silent, but walked over to Rokossovsky and put a hand on his shoulder. A tense moment followed as the whole room waited for Stalin to rip the epaulette from Rokossovsky's shoulder; instead, Stalin said "Your confidence speaks for your sound judgement", and followed Rokossovsky's plan. The operation proved to be very successful for the Red Army and the Soviets liberated all of Byelorussian SSR and gained eastern Polish territories. The Army Group Centre faced destruction. “The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!” - Konstantin Rokossovsky
@@Weesee_I I listed those countries because many people think and say that it was poor Germany alone against the world, and yes, I didn't include Finland, Croatia and maybe some others.
This operation is often overshadowed by D-Day or Stalingrad, but it is just as important. Thank you for bringing awareness to the forgotten battles of history!
@@mrporcupine4140 Plus when it's all but guaranteed that on-third of all Germans tanks will break down, and be abandoned for lack of parts. Tigers and Panthers were notoriously maintenance intensive.
@@alessandroguermandi8828 Land lease alone can't win wars. US aids to Saudi Arabia or Pakistan have proven futile. However the effect of Land Lease were extremely important and helped Britain and Russia immensely.
Absolutely loving the content you produce. As an avid history buff, I really enjoy the attention to detail and historical accuracy you put into all of your videos. Keep up the awesome work!
the IS2(early) and the IS2(1944) also took part in operation Bagration assisting in the heaviest breakthrough there are photos even seeing these heavy breakthrough tanks with the mine roller attached.
You know what I love about this channel. It gives details, with good visuals of the subjects I love. Did you do an episode on italy and germany in greece?
Soviet Union broke the invincibility of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad and broke the back of the German war-machine in this operation once and for all, love to Soviet heroes.
The person or people who was reasonable for the skull in fire and action sequence deserves an absolute raise. you now what if that person reveal him/herself I will give that a mediocre painting for free because holy lord that actually made me hyped up for a bit.
Pincer movement evolution Hannibal:Classic pincer movement Khalid Ibn Walid:V style pincer movement Yi Sun Shin:U style pincer movement(Crane wing formation) Zhukov:"Rapid pincer movement
Btw the Soviets were equipped with a more heavily armed T-34 85 that retains its mass production capability and sloped armor. This made the Soviet offensive even unstoppable.
I always referred to this as the 'Destruction of Army Group Center' (Heer Gruppe Mitte). This defeat truly removed the illusion of a German-Russian contest; instead, after this, it was strictly mopping up the remaining German elements left behind and a race to Berlin.
Cool video. The only nit-pick I have is that you for some reason narrate from the German perspective. Like saying "capture" where from the Soviet standpoint it would be "liberate". It WAS the Soviet territory after all.
It wasnt their territory. Whole russian history is based on aggressive expansion, the USSR annected the eastern european states after WW1. Thus it wasnt "liberating", it was recapturing annected cities.
@@highjumpstudios2384 Чистая пропаганда. Наверно ты не понял смысла слова "освободить". Освободить от немецко - фашистских захватчиков, которые устраивали рабочие лагеря, где всех, кроме себя и своих сателлитов, не считали за людей. Чтобы понять слово "освободить", посмотри хотя бы фильм "Иди и смотри". Бред в общем ядерный не несите.
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Please make a video on the Boer war and great trek
can you do the Korean war as well
@@keithshaylofjerezabayosait168 Yeah, Korea would be awesome
Model was the only person who manage tio not loss many ground in army group north
@@keithshaylofjerezabayosait168 yes would agree
"How do we convince the germans we are attacking the south?"
"What if we attack the south?"
Genius
@@abdiganiaden Thing is, they actually planned an operation down in the south and so planning a surprise attack on the main front to break the main German army would be the best timing and absolutely genius. They did it at e same time which also prevented Germans from sending reinforcements from south to the area where the main attack was cos they were also under heavy attack.
Germany fell into one of the oldest tactics. Send 20% army to point A and make as much noise as possible, while the remaining 80% at the same time surround and capture point B as quick as possible before move and assist point A. This method is in Arts of War Sun Tzu.
@@pablogonzalez2226
China knows with Biden at the helm, they can waltz into Taiwan as Putin can waltz into the Ukraine if they choose to, at a time of their choosing.
Traitor Trump already sold them out, and us.
@@alexfunk1810 all the ppl moving their businesses to China fueled they're growth. In the name of profits
The animation has gotten so much better over the years
Da
Reminds me of growing up watching Family guy and American dad: the graphics would get better and better/ more high definition each season. Animation is cool stuff.
Yes
If only youtube recommended it like normal videos he'd have over 2mil subs by now
Yep. Been here since it was crap
Stalingrad- a bloody nose
Kursk - a broken arm
Bargration - A broken back
Battle for Berlin- a broken neck
With a broken heart.
at barbarossa they lost their ability to conduct major offensive action on a wide front, at stalingrad and kursk (belgogrod) they lost their ability to conduct major offensive action on a limited front and at the battle for hungary (more precisely the budapest breakthrough/reconnection attempt) the german army even lost it's ability to conduct minor offensive action on a limited front, after that point they were a defending force, not a fighting/attacking one
Meanwhile in a bunker - headshot
@@rockpalace9919 TF
“They came for our blood, and now they drown in their own”
Viktor Reznov
Their land Their Blood
@@EnclaveStormXL their women
@@alekhossen3862what?
I'm seeing a lot of complaints that we didn't call out the Soviets for failing to support the Warsaw Uprising. In several weeks we're going to release a video specifically on Life in German-Occupied Poland where we will more properly address this.
I've been waiting it for a long time and I'm so happy to hear that the facts I provided will finally be hopefully used! Goodluck on the videos!
Thank you!!
Thank you for addressing this as I was about to make a comment regarding the lack of attention on the Soviets decision to allow the Warsaw uprising to be crushed.
I've read that the Germans were actually producing enough tanks to replace losses on the Eastern Front, but they didn't have the infrastructure, crews or fuel to get them there. Is this accurate?
Luigi is Hitler
"The German Army is a machine, and machines can be broken"
- Konstantin Rokossovsky
So you idolize communists?
He idolized Russians and that's based
@@tomanderson9774 yes.
@@ROBA05 Well, Rokossovsky was a Pole, and the Red Army itself consisted of different nationalities. There were not only Russians there)
@@Торговецложками at least you come out and say. All of the communists I interact with here on youtube are too scared to admit it
You've heard of the tree's are speaking Vietnamese, introducing, The minefield is speaking Russian.
The sewers speaking polish
@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername24 snow start speak finnish
Lol!
@@orange8420 white army is the strongest army you bolshevik coward
@@Grusken19 you lost so no
My grandfather, born in Ukraine, took part in this operation. Now he is 98 years old and lives in Minsk.
Is he dead?
He was born in 1923 then. 80% of the Soviet males born in 1923 didn't survive in WWII
@@s4rthakforreal Yes, he was. But he did. Last month he met his 99.
@@ПавелК-123 I see. He knows a lot of stories about this operation then. My great grandpa served for British India in the Imphal battle against the Japanese
My Ukranian friend's tell me that without Ukranians help, Russia would have lost the War.
Fun Fact: Operation Bagration was named after Pytor Bagration, a great general that served the Russian Imperial army in the late 1700s to the early 1800s.
I'm always thinking about the Georgian dynasty in general when I see the Operation's name.
@@Vitalis94 Bagration actually served during the Romanov Dynasty.
@@thehistorybuilder6390 Yes, you already said that and I'm fully aware of this. :P It's just that he was a prince of Bagration dynasty, and even less people know about this Georgian dynasty than Pyotr himself.
@@Vitalis94 Ok.
Is that the same Bagration who fought in the Napoleonic War? I once heard that name in Epic History TV videos.
Germany: BETTER DEAD THAN RED! Right guys?
Romania: ...
Bulgaria: Red doesn't seem so bad anymore
@Kpro_11's ASMR Channel Who? Bulgaria always loved russia due to their shared history
@Moritz der Echte yh russia invaded the Balkan and with the help of Bulgarian revolutionaries and partisans they broke through the ottoman defence line and stopped their attack only 100 km from Konstantinopel
@@zigo373 I'm Bulgarian and we hate russia
@@Fifotsariat Не говори глупости
@@Fifotsariat bro wtf are you talking about
It’s good to see more and more light being shed on Bagration. It’s tough to visualize just how massive of a loss this way. An entire Army Group, Army Group Center, the Army Group that had tormented the Russians since June of ‘41, was effectively expunged.
Here’s another one: ruclips.net/video/rJAEdLnZsgI/видео.html
Soviets not russians
@@artinrahideh1229
It’s interesting that we make that distinction. The phrase “Soviet” or “Soviet Army” wasn’t adopted until 1946 and as far as composition wise, the Red Army was dominated by Russians. The Wehrmacht Heer and SS had many Austrians, Czechs, Belgians, etc etc but we still refer to them as “The Germans”. Origin, composition and phraseology of the time contribute to that.
@@nateweter4012 whilst the majority were ethnic Russians, the totality was not. There were more ethnicities than I can be bothered counting: Uzbeks, Georgians, Armenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, etc. They fought under the Soviet flag, not the Russian flag, so I think it's not fair to those ethnic minorities to white-wash them as "the Russian army."
@Duck Go Quacks more like erased from existence
I really love the detail at 15:47 with the soviet flag, it's not the soviet flag people tend to picture which came about in 1955, it's the older one, which is only slightly different but the variant of the hammer and sickle is different, and I just like that attention to detail.
That's called the Sickle of Sun
Agreed. This is the hammer and sickle variant that was widely used under General Secretary Stalin's consolidation in office from '36 up until two years after his death in '55.
"Konstantin"
"Yes Ivanov?"
"Do you see Army Group Centre?"
"Yes"
"I don't want to"
"Yes Sir"
LOL SO FUNNY
Hmm, Russian memes
Hahaa
Stalin my brother
Lenin my father
Hitler my enemy
I didn't know that Stalin was Ivanov.
My life won't be as usual enymore...
This operation seriously isn’t talked about enough. Thanks for making this .
Watching the encirclement animation slowly closing around Minsk made my inner Hoi4 nerd extremely anxious
shii dawg shoulda built medium tanks
Try countering outside Minsk with ur 5 heavy tonks outside Minsk at the north, and pin the force from inside the pocket, then with the red army encircled, and hopefully destroyed, you do a standard push back on the southern pincer. Then while the Soviet offensive is stalled near minsk, use the forces near romanis and bessarabia to counter the Soviet forces and advance into Ukraine.
That's my thought process if this was hoi4, but I doubt it would work irl
just justify on poland 1936, then invade soviets and easy win with just the starter divisions.
@@noodled6145 As a Soviet player, I almost always invade Poland in 1936 and turn France Communist, and turn Poland into Communist puppet, by 1939 Communist Poland has built up a decent army, and we got Germany surrounded hard.
I know right. It is like just fall back into favourable defense line
The red army was terrifying once it got rolling.
There biggest problem was in the early days they were constantly on the defensive. By this stage of the war, they were following exactly the doctrine the army had been designed for.......with devastating results. It did not help that the Russian people were starting to discover what the Germans had been doing in the conquered areas. Nothing like a cranky Russian to mess with your day.
yep you gotta admit communist and yes Stalin did agreat job of building upp that army.central planning helped as fuk also, just to mobilize population and industry. dont get me wrong Stalin was fuktard of a human being, but he exceled in that role, when its war.lol.
Yea
During the Battle for Stalingrad, Stalin said:: "They are now fighting for the sacred soil of Mother Russia".
@@glenchapman3899 The German position at this stage in the war looks very weak indeed. They were trying to defend a huge front with dwindling forces. Once the Soviets started the big push, the only effective strategy was to pull back to Poland and prepare a better defence for the advance. As we know the German high command was tightly controlled by the Nazi leadership and the invasion of the USSR was deeply flawed and its cruel and barbarous actions on the indigenous population entirely counterproductive. Such a fall back would not be countenanced and any opportunity of seeking terms to end the fighting not an option.
12:53 “Heya! I am dimitri with an I, this is dmitri with a DM, and this is Dimitry with a Y.”
Lol
Where all twin brother just like my other 50 twin brothers
What?
Do you mean that they write their names in different languages?
@@sodinc its primarily for joke purposes, I made a joke about them during Griffin’s editing stream
It's ya boi Dimitri walking down the streets
Konstantin Rokossovsky is the most underrated world war 2 general
In the West, of course, the same as Vasilevsky. But the operation itself was developed by the head of the Operations Directorate and Deputy Chief of the General Staff for Strategic Planning Alexei Innokentievich Antonov. The rest was already corrected directly at the front.
Correct. He was a 3 time Hero of the Soviet Union and deserved more
He was born in Warsaw. In 1949-1956 he was Polish minister of defence.
@@michabiaczynski9990 bla bla bla soviet repressions against polish people... Soviet marshal Rokossovsky an ethical Polish....
Soviet ideology was never built on hate to other nations, but on class ideology.
@@michabiaczynski9990 Well, no one is arguing.Father is Polish, mother is Russian.
The Soviet infantry charge with the battle cry 'URAAAAAHHHHH' was the last sound a lot of German soldiers ever heard.
"Fritz... bring mein brown leiderhosen..."
That's not entirely accurate, the Oprah was the second to last sound. The last was the bark of a ppsh.
@@dmar4194 OK. I wasn't there.
@@anthonyricchiuti4128 just a joke my friend ;P
When the mine field starts yelling URAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! URAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Germany: Man, all you really need to deal with these Reds is a few dozen mines, am I right, boys?
T-34 Mine Flail Tanks: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
@John Beige You wish
@@elseggs6504 When and where were minesweeper machines like that used before Operation Overlord? I've never heard them mentioned in any other context before that.
@@reginabillotti This happened in the same month, there was no way they could copy them that quickly.
@@megajimmyfive Yea, the Russians had been developing a mineroller since the Winter War and started building them for T-34's in 1942. Hardly a new invention though, the British already saw the use for Mineroller tank during WW1 but the Armistice happened before they could be used in battle.
Germany relied way too much on mines.
I'll never get over that Germany named maybe their most important offensive for a guy who fell off his horse and drowned in a somewhat shallow river
I agree. Also basically asking to curse the entire operation.
It's a funny parallel between the man and the operation; both had grand achievements and vision earlier on only to ultimately end in tragedy.
According to one source, Frederick actually had a heart attack at that same moment, killing him before the water could.
@@SuperGman117 This actually makes a tonne of sense, but even if the heart attack may not have killed him, it still would have paralysed him long enough to fall into the water and drown.
@@mashek331 That's also a likely possibility.
There seems to be a misconception about the Russian "Ura" battle cry.
They didn't shout "Uh! RAh! Uh! RAh!" in unison like line infantry would do in the past to keep the cadence.
It was usually one officer shouting a motivational slogan (think something like "Fowards brothers/comrades, for the motherland!") followed by a long "Uraaaaaaaa!" after which the men would begin shouting "Uraaaaaaa!" on their own time.
The fact that it sounded like a chaotic howling and not a united chant was actually more frightening to the enemy. Made it sound like there were more soldiers than there actually were, at the same time making the enemy feel like they were attacked by a horde of mindless fearless blood thirsty beasts.
"The Russians are not men, but some sort of cast iron creatures; they never get tired, and are not afraid of fire"
To be fair this misconception is somewhat based on the reality. If you look at Russian military parades you can hear a "triple ura" which consists of two short ones and one long one. And the short ones sound quite close to what is in this video.
@@ptyzix Yes that is true. On parades you have to march in unison and chant in unison. That's the hole point of a parade.
During an infantry charge, the tactical doctrine of the Red Army in WW2 dictated that once the attacking infantry has gotten whitin 100 meters of the enemy, the command to charge is to be given and the infantry is to charge at the enemy with battle cries and "destroy him at close range with rifles, grenades and bayonets" . Unlike the Americans, who relied on superior firepower and overwealmed the enemy with huge volumes of fire until they retreated or surrendered, the Soviets had their infantry charge and overrun the enemy position, flushing them out at close range with all available weapons.
This is partly where the myth of the Soviet human wave comes from.
Back to the battle cries, they were continious and loud, which increased the morale of the attacking soldiers, reduced the chances of them breaking off the assault once casualties have been taken and also demoralised the enemy.
@@ptyzix That was also practiced by other armies, the Romanian one for example, which had an identical "URA!" battle cry and also used it on the attack to motivate their infantry.
@Blesava Konjina I dom't know if it was a joke or not because the link you gave was incomplete and thus I couldn't watch whatever you linked, but there's no "H" in "URA" .
If you want to write it in English, it would be something like "OORAH" , but with a very long "AH" . You basically have to scream it until you start running out of breath.
@@daniels_0399 during late war, USSR also pounds the hell out of German fortifications before attacking, with massive sticks like 203 mm or 280 mm and the frightening Katyushas.
My therapist: mineflail T-34 doesn't exist, it can't hurt you
Mineflail T-34: URA URA URA URA URA
FINNNALLLLLLLY A MEME ON THAT lol
What does that chant actually mean?
@@varun-xu8gv It's just a noise, a battle cry, like pirates or the US civil war era rebel yell.
Those are just rollers in front of the treads. A lot of modern vehicles have them now to trigger IEDs. The sherman had a legit mine flail.
@@Meirstein Mine-roller didn't sound as cool, though. I love mine flails. They're an amazing solution to the problem. They also have a small but hard to ignore chance of accidentally launching the mines in random directions instead of detonating them, while simultaneously smashing the fuse mech so badly you can't safely disarm them, wherever they happen to land. Highly chaotic fun for the whole platoon!
No one talks about how good the Red Army was during the second half of ww2. By 1943/44 they were the strongest army in the world. They practiced combined arms, highly motorized, highly experienced, and were tenacious. They also had something like 6 million soldiers by 1944. Without a doubt the best army in World War 2.
Very true. By this point in the war, the Soviets were experts in warfare and had learned over the years.
@@danielnavarro537 the Germans were still the best army in the world, If they had trucks and fuel in the quantity the Russians had they would of easily won the Eastern front. Good they didn't but German troops literally ran out of ammunition mowing down soviets men and armour
@@danielnavarro537 the Germans were best army to be honest
Given that soviets had 9:1 superiority in artillery and 7:1 superiority in tanks and also in aircraft even than the soviets took more losses at bagration
It was not something to be proud of when you have such as huge superiority
Germans couldn't even use what they had due to lack of fuel and transport
Germans were bombed too by Western allies
Germans achieved great victories with less loss of life such as at kiev 1941 ,operation Mars and 3rd battle of kharkov
@@ericvonmanstein2112 Yeah your right but I think German military losses later on war was more than Soviets. The war of annihilation even makes German glorified for some time led to their ultimate defeats as most of the Soviet Union hated them. The bombings wouldn't gonna affect much of their supply lines, but in the battlefield Stalin admires American air superiority than his own. Their economic capabilities and pre-planning make Soviet Union powerful than Germans in economy as not most of German's economic hubs are mobilized for war. But the problem with casualties is true on Soviet sides, they lacked training as most of them are reserves with their equipments as well as allied lend-lease wouldn't gonna take effect until 1943.
@@Markov16 I agree for most part
But lend lease played an absolutely huge role in Soviet military victories
Zhukov said "it was Soviet artillery that won the war,but it were American trucks that moved the Soviet artillery"
Lend lease is often underestimated stating that only 15 percent of Soviet military effort
In reality it was much more than that
The Americans and British supplied the soviets with 40 percent of steel, 70 percent of aluminium,aviation fuel , 20 million pairs of boots,and enough food for rest of war plus (15 percent tanks and other material too)
Without which soviets would had to divert huge men to these things
Basically Americans provided means for at least 50 percent of Soviet tanks and aircrafts and also how to run them
On other hand the inefficiency of German industry was due to lack of fuel and acute labor shortage because "the Germans were not freely supplied with uniform,boots,food ,steel ,aluminium and fuel for free. Germany had to synthesize and work extremely hard for everything,so population was diverted in agriculture and other parts,Bombings effected them most
Overall German economy was impressive since 1938 . The German government funded their all military operations without help from international bankers . All of the nations took help from bankers and were indepted . The German economy despite allied bombing and so many defeats didn't crash after 5 years
Salaries and basic grants were given even in April 1945 .
Germans: spends an entire day laying mines on the front
Soviet: *sweeps the mines with T-34s with mine rollers*
Hitler: So how's the war goin on the Eastern Front?
Generals: and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming, and they don't stop coming
@@generalfred9426 potential history?
@@polygonalfortress yep
Mineswepers go brrrrrr-bam-brrrr-bam-brrrr-bam-brrrr
@@generalfred9426 we ran out of ammo after the 5 the wave.
Germany : Blitzkrieg= pincers in double envelopement
Soviet Union: deep battle: my pincers have pincers which have pincers and are at the front flank and rear
actually deep battle is not really close to blitzkrieg in actual ops there is no assumed weakpoint targeted in the enemies lines the soviets would mass reserves and use them once a break in the line was made (and usually there were multiple ones) they'd immediately surge with all available armored vehicles (tanks, IFVs,APCs) through all those lines tactics are essentially the same but you are grinding down the enemy to where theres more than one possible place to slam into (basically perfect for defending russia bad for attacking small places where supply would be an issue say belgium)
@@30cal23 Deep operation involves the interaction of different types of troops and the suppression of the enemy's defense at its entire depth. In contrast to the blitzkrieg, which involves the possibility of separating tank units from the masses of infantry or neglecting heavy artillery in favor of assault aircraft. The Soviets in Bagration actively used artillery, such as a double barrage to suppress two enemy lines at once. So a big role was played not so much by numerical superiority, but by the ability to combine the efforts of different branches of the armed forces to achieve a synergistic effect. This allowed the Soviets to complete the rearmament of the army by 1943 and the military industry to reach its maximum capacity by about the same time.
You have the freedom to do this with a overwhelming superiority - as with the initial situation during operation Bagration. Thats not a Soviet thing, thats a law of warfare...:)
@@mikeromney4712 In principle, any such operation involves the ability to concentrate superior firepower on a suitable sector of the front, to develop and consolidate success. A classic combination of fire and maneuver.
There is a soviet Warsaw song that has lines "We come from the ground, from the sky and from the sea" XD
And people still say Soviets had no tactics
Because they want to make lame excuses that Soviets just kept sending millions of soldiers to die and Nazis ran out of bullets. Reality was Soviets had superior tactics, manpower and equipment.
@@pacus123 true
@@pacus123 Not superior tactics. But they obviously werent dumb.
@@peterlustig6888 No, the Soviets had superior tactics. They used their equipment well and also fought to the conditions. The Nazis thought they were superior to the Soviets and underestimated them
lol soviets had the best tactics? is this some kind of joke never heard of Blitzkrieg?
Operation Begration: Ultimate GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN moment
Our lawn
and then I enter your lawn.
The Soviet’s had some badass military leaders during WWII. Zhukov, Vasilivesky. Rokossovsky, Konev, Vatutin, etc.
The Eastern Front doesn’t get nearly as much attention in the West as it should.
There was Zhukov and almost no one else. Unlike Monty or Patton his abilities did match his press, the war would have taken much longer for Russia without Zhukov.
This is the best book on the Eastern Front: "When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army stopped Hitler" by David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House. 2nd edition, 2015.
@@rick7424 thanks! Here's a great one about Kursk, one of my favorites: "Citadel" by Robin Cross.
Eastern from DOES get attention, but really lacks in Video games and Movies. Hollywood and Games always shows the Western Front smh
@@robertmaybeth3434 I am currently reading Glantz and House's work on Kursk, but thank you for the tip.
Nothing like armchair historian to start your day.
Batman approved.
I ending my day with it
You said it my friend!👍🏽💯
@@devchaitanyatiwari5997 I'm dining with it
I got my cappuccino and watching this best part of the day. Such amazing content looking at different parts of history that we don't see often unless we really dig in.
History documentary: "and on the 6th of June Germany suffered its worst defeat yet on the beaches of Normandy“
Bagration: am I a joke to you?
Keyword: "yet". Bagration started 16 days later.
@@gargravarr2 Stalingrad Kursk
@@yegorperepelytsya7812 actually in Tunisia just a couple/ few months after Stalingrad,both fought at approx same time ,the Western Allies forced the surrender of an Axis army about as large as that lost at Stalingrad
@@mikeneufield2855 if we assume hall stalingrad compaign axis lost 1,5 million soldiers dead wounded missing and captured, at stalingrad germans lost all its momentum , during kurks they lost their armoured core and pretty much last chances of winning the war
@@yegorperepelytsya7812yes nd with last months of Africa campaign the Axis ,lost probly at least 1/2 million, at same time as Stalingrad,and the Italians also lost their,last, field force then with the invasion of Sicily then Italy the Western Allies knocked Germanys only European ally out of the war and Germany then had to garrison and fight italy too, with an entire army,.the Allies also landing in Sicily on July 10th ' 43 at height of Kursk battle and Germans had to divert forces south forces they,badly, needed on the Eastern front. So it was a combined Allied effort, Western n Soviet
People like to think the Russians only won by numbers. That's false. The Soviets also won by superior strategy.
@VinAr Run Nice try Wehraboo. Who knew that bad weather only effects one side? And how funny that early on the Germans had larger numbers? In fact once they no longer outnumber the soviets they stop winning. Imagine that. Supplies? The soviets had lost the entire western part of their country to German occupation. But sure... those poor Germans. GTFO with this nonsense.
@VinAr Run Lol Wehraboo. Soviet Deep Battle was everything the "Blitzkrieg" wanted to be
Don't forget that when the Soviet's were outnumbered in 41' it was referenced as "superior tactics" of Germans.
Also, everyone knows the Soviet's don't suffer from the cold, therefore were unaffected by the winter of 41-42
Yeah that’s uh that’s how you win wars buddy
Numbers helped. The wrong strategy with superior numbers is going to beat a good strategy with low numbers.
In 41, 9m soldiers were killed or captured or missing... 7.5m of those were soviet.
7.5m out of 9m. Come 44, the soviets were still able to push 6m more to the front lines, plus 5000 tanks, plus more rugged weapon systems. At this point the Germans were down to around 2.5m troops and very quickly fell to around 1.5m. A 4:1 ratio of soviet to Germans.
The generals on the ground urged Hitler to allow a retreat but Hitler declined numerous times. Basically left out to dry. If Hitler had allowed it, and the Germans could get dug in across the dnieper river, this may have allowed a higher likelihood of reconnecting a supply chain, as well as a higher concentration of troops to hold back the soviet advances. All of these factors, the higher soviet numbers and the lack of German leadership is what won. Soviet strategy wasn't completely relevant really.
I did a project on this. I was astounded at the fact that this extremely decisive battle is not covered at all here in the west very little. I mean like, 25% of German power in the East destroyed? Bruh Overlord was nothing to this
Cold war undermined soviet contribution.
@@southerncoast822 The U.S. didn’t show up late though. Japan and Germany declared war on the U.S. The U.S. pushed the Germans, French, and Italians out of North Africa. The U.S. pushed the Germans out of Italy and France. The U.S. could have taken Berlin but Eisenhower didn’t want to. Saying the USSR beat the Germans is just revisionist history.
@@horationelson2212 looool
That’s what I thought when I learned of this from another channel (he also had the translated orders from the Soviets). It was the perfect use of “deep battle “. They destroyed more soldiers in one battle than the entirety of the rest the allies were fighting.
I mean look at the Americans losing 600,000 soldiers during the entire war compared to the Soviets who lost the same in one battle (Stalingrad). That’s why Stalin was pleading to FDR and Churchill to open another front ASAP and thought they were stalling (they were ). You know the saying WWII was “won with British intelligence, American steel and Russian blood”.
@Senkan Yamato
Actually during the 1944 campaign in France around 40 German divisions consisting of Panzer Army West, Seventh army and 15th Army were all gutted as fighting formations. I wouldn't say that was nothing.
Germans: "Minefield."
Soviets: "OURfield."
Underrated))
@Wu Bing Jin ushankas are pretty great when its cold ngl.
Neinfield
Haha funny communism
*OURSfield, "our" is not the plural equivalent of "mine".
The Germans wanted to parade through the streets of Moscow, so the generous Soviets made sure they did.
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Yu can see the video of this actual "parade" on RUclips.
The identifier of the video is JC6oJURg6Pk.
Your so kind and always so correct .
Yes
As prisoners, and spoils of war the Soviets won
I don't know why there's not alot of documentaries on operation bagration. It's a huge battle and the largest German defeat in ww2 and possibly history. I would love to see a more in depth look at everything in it. Like the officers involved, the tactics.. ect ect...
The swastika wheel crumbling into panzers animation was dope.
Time stamp?
Nvm
It is a great visual metaphor. This channels really up its game.
It's an image imitating a piece of soviet propaganda from the time of this operation which was exactly the same image.
@@raptordoniv6779 12:11
I genuinely enjoyed seeing those T-34s equipped with mine rollers.
In many instances the Soviets just marched streams of soldiers over mine fields just to detonate and clear an area. Their troops were just canon fodder to them. That's why their casualties were so astronomical.
@@marksauck8481 By astronomical casualties you mean around 1:1.3 loss ratio? You've got to consider that half of europe was fighting along with germany. For example, the german losses at stalingrad were around 330.000, but axis losses were 750k-850k. Also, soviet population was literally equal to german by 1942, again, without considering the manpower of that half of europe i was talking about.
@@marksauck8481 another victim of a tv propaganda
@@marksauck8481 No, that never happened, if hardly ever.
@@sovinr8658 Read the book; A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945. Check pages 72& 73 According to Russian military sources, 422,700 men died in punishment units during the war. I’ve read many books on WWII over my life time. Apparently some of you don’t do much reading.
My grandfather was in the 8th Panzer Division. He was a Panzerjager. I think at this time his division was in the 4th panzer army. The 8th panzer division and my grandfather survived until 1945 when they were captured in Brno. I asked my Opa when he knew the war was lost. He said, “After Stalingrad fell we all knew it was over. It was just a matter of time. The “alter Hase” in the units knew how to survive. We just had to hang on until it was over”
Very interesting
Really very interesting! This is what I wanted to know. Stalingrad? Kursk? Weissrussland? When did German understand that they had lost the war?
My grandfather was in the 2nd Shock Army led by General Vlasov before his betrayal. He told me that when he had been wounded and lied down on the battlefield he thought: "It is a pity, to die at the age of 19". Thanks God, now he is almost 98 years old and well.
@@ПавелК-123 I’m so glad your grandfather survived. I know my Opa often said he had nothing but respect for the Russian soldier. I asked him one time about his tank kills and if he put rings on his barrel of his panzerjager. He said killing human beings is nothing to celebrate. He was angry that I asked that and I never asked again
@@ericshelly2518 My Opa and I agree with you and your grandfather. War is evil. Let it never happen again
@@ericshelly2518 My grandfather was one of the youngest regiment commanders of the Red Army. Lieutenant-colonel at his 30. Commander of the 1331 infantry regiment of the 318 "Novorosiyskaya" infantry division, Separate Coastal Army, 4th Ukrainian Front. He had survived surrounding of Kiev, Battle of Moscow, Stalingrad and died with his regiment storming city of Sevastopol on 9.05.1944. ..it might be that our grandfathers fought each other at Stalingrad...
This was good documentary, no political bias. Just like a true historian should do, just the facts.
Also very high quality and artistic visuals for the format.
Its impossible to completely escape bias. Just minimise it.
@@sandran17 Yes and bias has been turned way down in this one.
bias comes from selection of events to describe, level of detail, wording, and depth of research. Also, primary sources are biased too. but he doesn't often tell people what someone's/some group's motivations were unless there's evidence for it. i agree this is excellent content
Yes, that was a very good piece of it
Great line from Victor Davis Hanson's book, "The Second World Wars": "What the Red Army did to the Wehrmacht terrified Europe for the next 50 years". Damn right.
The Wehrmacht was rampaging the Red Army for a good two years when force ratios weren't extremely loopsides in favour of the Red Army.
Despite having an numerical advantage of over 2:1 on the whole front just before Bagration commenced, the Red Army only achieved one major breakthrough on one point which still resulted in disproprtionate casualties. Cold war military generals and historians were studying the German operational tactics, not the Soviet ones for a good reason.
The Red Army's advantage lay in the extreme manpower advantage, nothing else.
@chinsaw2727 he is a wehraboo don’t listen to him
@@Welsh7133 Y'all realize he's not wrong though, right? Everything he said is a fact. Just because you don't believe it doesn't make it so.
@@wiictvchannel1112 I never said his claims were false, he just seemed like a wehraboo (a type of person I despise) so I called him out for it
@@davidjohn6913 while soviets relied on high numbers of man and equipment it wasnt everything , as stated in video deep battle is very efective strategy and germans by 1944 lost many good generals( rommel for example) , also plis dont subcribe to soviet hordes myth made by germans , only countries in ww2 who did human vawe was china and japan
As an American, I'm always blown away by how tough the Russian people are in videos like this. Massive respect. I just wish we all could just get along....
Many USA people only know that d-day is the only cause of German defeat 😁
@Justus Immelmann that's not correct... and a bit simplistic
@Justus Immelmann yes, it is called alliance. Do you think the Anglo-Americans could win the war without the Eastern Front??
About the war in Afghanistan, you forgot to mention that the tribesmen were massively supported by USA... Otherwise one could say the tribesmen in Indochina kicked some American asses...
@Justus Immelmann why do you people act like this? In an alliance of three super powers each one was crucial. On top of thst what you said isnt true the american lend lease kicked in in 1943 but which point the germans were fucked. But that literally doesnt matter its the fact you show no respect to the brave russian soldiers who fought to destroy the nazis which is really embarrassing.
@Justus Immelmann Have you literally wrote something about lend lease in every single thread of that comment section? And they tell us about russian bots....
A lot of people still hold the misconception that the Russians defeated the Germans by just pouring in their troops. This is just another example of how utterly incorrect this is. The Russians beat the Germans also on the strategic and tactical levels too. Georgy Zhukov still is one of the greatest strategists to ever live.
у Германии было много войск с 41-45гг.
Германии помогали Финляндия, Румыния, Италия... почти вся европа. рейхстаг защищали французы!!!
у СССР было больше войск это миф.
еще надо смотреть боевые потери. они равные!
This is very true.
britain and russia were on the verge of collapse then lend lease came in and turned the tied
A lot of people still hold the misconception than soviet union consists only of russians
@Олег Широбоков Between June 1941 and May 1945, Britain delivered to the USSR:
3,000+ Hurricanes aircraft
4,000+ other aircraft
27 naval vessels
5,218 tanks (including 1,380 Valentines from Canada)
5,000+ anti-tank guns
4,020 ambulances and trucks
323 machinery trucks (mobile vehicle workshops equipped with generators and all the welding and power tools required to perform heavy servicing)
1,212 Universal Carriers and Loyd Carriers (with another 1,348 from Canada)
1,721 motorcycles
£1.15bn worth of aircraft engines
1,474 radar sets
4,338 radio sets
600 naval radar and sonar sets
Hundreds of naval guns
15 million pairs of boots
In total 4 million tonnes of war material including food and medical supplies were delivered. The munitions totaled £308m (not including naval munitions supplied), the food and raw materials totaled £120m in 1946 index. In accordance with the Anglo-Soviet Military Supplies Agreement of June 27, 1942, military aid sent from Britain to the Soviet Union during the war was entirely free of charge.
Being a belarusian myself, it's a pleasure to watch a high-quality video about the operation that liberated my entire country from occupation
Also, [bo'brujsk], [mogi'ljov]
Also №2, the animation at 12:11 was legit great
Liberated it so it would be enslaved under Stalin.
@@DaniboyBR2 please, delete this dumb comment.
My country regained and exceeded its production values in less than 10 years, and Minsk literally was rebuilt from the ruins.
All of that mostly thanks to the materials coming from other republics while Belarus couldn't cover its own needs.
If you call that slavery, I'd rather have it than what we have now.
@@MDzmitry Do you realize this was at the expense of slave labour, the death of tens of millions of people correct? I understand you wanting the best for your country but our wealth shouldn't depend on expropriation and mass murder as it often does.
Yeah bro
LIBERATED
Poles have a good joke
"What is worse than being occupied by germans?
Being liberated by soviets"
Give back Brześć and pisnk
Yet again we learn nothing about the history of the armchair
He just keeps clickbaiting this bs. Tbh if we don’t get a vid about his armchairs history in the next month I’m unsubscribing
@@thomasbrady3827 i agree man when does he show the history of his armchair!?!??!?!?!?
Lol 😂
That would make a good History Guy video.
Fr this is so unfair, why don’t we learn about armchair history, I clicked on this channel to learn about furniture history and I’m getting this dumb world war 2 stuff
Starts watching the video.
> Wow, animation's so good. This deserves a like already.
Few seconds later.
> Omfg he pronounced Bagration correctly, top tier creator, how do I give a second like?!
'Quantity has a quality of its own' -Soviet philosophy
Hitler: 'Well quality has a quantity of its...actually that makes no sense.'
Batman lost braincells reading that
Lmao considering the fact they made multiple amounts of "quality" variants of multiple other multiples of mulitples of equipment, it indeed made no sense.
German Production was actually over engineered, as Ball Bearings on a Panther were designed to last years, but would only survive for an equivalent number of days or weeks on the front lines. This is why Soviet tanks such as the T-34 were so successful, as they could be produced in ever increasing numbers. Coupled with the T-34 mounting the more powerful 85mm Cannon, the Germans could not hope to repel the increased firepower brought to bear against them.
@@anthonym770 The bulk of German equipment was also lost when Stalingrad fell, so the new production also went to shore up the losses instead of bolstering the front lines. The best Defense is a good Offense, and Germany would be on the defensive for the rest of the war.
Hitler: 'Well quality has a quantity of its...actually that makes no sense.'
German logistical/maintenance engineers: "Quality is nice and all but CAN YOU PLEASE STOP MAKING OVERCOMPLICATED WEAPONS OF WAR?!? I WAS TRAINED TO FIX TANKS AND TRUCKS *NOT* IN-FUCKING-VENT WAYS TO FIX TANKS AND TRUCKS!"
Excellent presentation! The Eastern Front is the most interesting part of WW2.
The Soviets had learned a lot by 1944, the mine-sweeper tanks being an example. They also exploited their tactical air superiority at a time when the Luftwaffe was a dwindling force. Their artillery strength was overwhelming by the time of Operation Bagration.
Agreed, ISU-152's pop into my mind whenever I watch that Russian documentary series "Soviet Storm WW2 in the East:Operation Bagration".
Operation Bagration: "Nazi Unit.... F*ck your unit, F*ck those divisions around you, F*ck the forest you're hiding in, and F*CK YOUUUU!!!"
@Justus Immelmann It was never to be a lasting union. When challenged to justify his alliance with Stalin,
Churchill replied; "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons"
@Justus Immelmann the US squeezing South America and killing independence movements around the world to steal their resources for cheap wasn’t poverty? Many countries are still suffering criminal sanctions. The Soviet Union was destroyed by civil war and multiple invasions, including by Poland. The thanks they got for stopping the Nazi war machine was an economic blockade conjured by Churchill and Truman. Keep talking of propaganda.
@Justus Immelmann I don’t do beliefs. I analyse and ponder FACTS.
Damn brother, I haven’t seen your channel in about a year and this animation has stepped way up. Cheers my guy 🥂
"Increasingly, the situation began to resemble the summer of 1941. But now the roles were reversed; it was the Germans turn to flee in terror and confusion under incessant attack from above. And now they could expect neither respite, nor mercy."
Soviet storm :)
An excellent documentary show about the whole of the war in the East, that you can find here on RUclips. Recommended to anyone interested.
wtf are you talking about. They surrendered not fleed lmao
@@jeansaisrien1343 its a biased show
@@darklysm8345 you do know that the germans retreated right? that's basically fleed. wehraboo detected
@@cosmicdistortion4350 ok toxic alliboo, read a book lmao
Я просто удивлен. Взвешенный подход к истории без истерии и пропаганды. Не думал что такое еще возможно в англоговорящем сегменте ютуба. Спасибо автору.
Александр,я тоже был приятно удивлён,переводя комментарии англоязычного населения!!!Значит ещё не всё потеряно!!!)))
По сравнению с нашими историками которые откровенно гнут свою линию, поверх истории, на западе одни образцы объективности и непредвзятости.
@@ik2254 Только походу не к Российской истории!!!!!!
@@СДЕЛАНВСССР-я9п да не, вполне объективно. По сравнению с тем что наши про запад откровенно пиздят, они говорят считай чистую правду. Есть чутка предвзятости иногда, но опять таки, ни в какое сравнение с тем, как наши откровенно чернят запад
@@ik2254 а почему называется "восточный фронт"?
germans: *whitsling*
also germans: why do i hear boss music?
soviets: *URA intensefieses*
@@copeharder7554 man, i wish Germany succeded.
@@charlzofficial8244 if you ain't German nor aryan, you ain't goona live
@@copeharder7554 cope harder
@@kkdario08 So original
@@copeharder7554 the red army curb stomped your beloved Nazis
For those of you who want a more in depth look into this battle, check out Soviet Storm: Operation Bagration. In my book it's one of the best documentaries about the Eastern Front in WW2.
@Justus Immelmann I fail to see what your comment has anything to do with what I wrote.
@Justus Immelmann pumped is a relative term considering that both the USSR and Russian Federation paid for of lend lease in form of gold, diamonds, platinum and other rare minerals. So it wasn't exactly a charity, but more of a business transaction.
Now the problem that I have with your comment is that it implies that without lend lease the USSR wouldn't have won their war against the Germans. In a way it diminishes the role the USSR played in defending it's own country and hypes up the foreign aid as the thing that changed the tide of war.
And while lend lease was important, it wasn't the thing that changed the tide of war. Soviet sacrifices and planning did. The bulk of lend lease started to arrive after the battle of Stalingrad by which the Germans didn't have an avenue to victory.
What lend lease did though is accelerate the soviet counter attack and a result diminishing allied casualties. Without lend lease the soviets would have taken Berlin, but in 1946 or 1947. And while the trucks were important for quickly transporting troops and supplies around, someone still has to do the killing and occupying. Aluminum and trucks don't do that on their own.
And since you want to bring up the whole 125 countries GDP thing, here's a thing to chew on. The USSR killed more Nazis than the rest of the world combined.
@Justus Immelmann the Americans pump a lot of money in Iraqi and Afghan armies as well, yet they are completely shite. You need competent people to use them effectively. And as the previous comment said, it was not for free.
@Justus Immelmann I have seen everywhere that they were not only paid in gold, but also "precious metal ores" and cash some of which was even paid by the Russian Federation. So idk where you are coming from.
@Justus Immelmann also you can look up the sinking of HMS Edinburgh
This battle in a nutshell
The German army was literally curbed stomped by the ussr
Ww2 eastern front be like
Step 1 to rush B
This stomping was approved by a turtle
@@copeharder7554 yep and it’s disgusting that people praise the communists, responsible for more deaths then old age.
@@finitatem that's not the case though.
The largest disparity of forces the Red Army would achieve on the eastern front was during Operation Bagration with the Red Army outnumbering the Wehrmacht about 3:1 in manpower (this is including ALL personnel not just combat personnel).
The 10:1 is a myth that was developed by Wehrmacht Generals writing their "memories" in the late 40s and 50s.
Well done. My wife is from Gomel Belarus. I have traveled there many times and explored a lot and also learned some history you don't usually hear in the books. South of Bobriuck is a small village on the Berezina called Krasny Bereg. Red Beach. The Red Army caught 19000 German troops in the area and surrounded them next to the river. The Germans tried to break out one night and the Soviets were waiting. Only some 700 managed to get through the lines. It's estimated some 11000 were taken prisoner and 6000 were killed on the banks of the Berezina river.
*The last time I was this early, the 1936 Berlin Olympics was still a widely anticipated event!*
At least Jesse Owens had a nice impression of Hitler XD
Last time I was this early this channel still had the balls to accurately represent history instead of censoring it.
@@pottierkurt1702 yeah, shitty YT demonetization policy
Last time I heard that joke, I fell my dinosaur.
Lmaoooo
named after Georgian prince and brilliant general. One of the heavy hitters of the Napoleonic wars era.
That must have appealed to Stalin because he was Georgian too. Stalin also had a great affection for a Georgian literary figure named Koba, who was somewhat akin to a Georgian Robin Hood. Stalin used to use "Koba" to identify himself amongst his fellow Bolsheviks and some of his comrades referred to him by this name, especially in their appeals to him after he had them arrested.
@@hughmungus1767 so that's why they named that cheater ape koba in planet of the apes
This guy literally made me study the entire WW2, thank you for making me know all about WW2
my great uncles participated in Bagration. they were Jewish tractor engineers in Ukraine, they fled the Shoah and joined up with the Belarusian red army as tank operators
STALINGRAD & NOT "D" DAY WAS WWII's TIPPING POINT
"D-day of Stalingrad", as TIK formulated it, decided more then d-day in Normandy, i guess.
Retrospectively, the Soviet officials considered Kursk to be the biggest turning point, Stalingrad second, Moscow third.
Germany had lost before the war even started. Their logistics capability was pathetic. As soon as they invaded the Soviet Union it was never going to end well for them. Barbarossa was a terribly planned operation.
D day was simply the cherry on top
Then again in Tunisia the Western Allies forced the surrender of an Axis army about as large as that lost at Stalingrad, just a couple/few months after Stalingrad. both battles were fought at approx the same time, with the culmination of the entire North African campaign beginning at El alamein with the Eighth Army under Montgomery and then at least another entire Allied army landed at and following Operation Torch
The Shmitler on the thumbnail makes me uncomfortable...
Hey, what does Shmitler even mean?!?! Please reply to me, buddy!
@@generalgta3528 mr. hilter
How do you think he felt in summer of 1944? Haha.
@@generalgta3528 1930s Trump
Its kinda hot...
Fun fact: During the planning of a major Soviet offensive in 1944, a famous incident occurred that various sources consistently report in slightly different versions. Rokossovsky (born in Poland) disagreed with Stalin, who demanded in accordance with Soviet war practice a single break-through of the German frontline. Rokossovsky held firm in his argument for two points of break-through. Stalin ordered Rokossovsky to "go and think it over" three times, but every time it was the same answer. After the third time Stalin remained silent, but walked over to Rokossovsky and put a hand on his shoulder. A tense moment followed as the whole room waited for Stalin to rip the epaulette from Rokossovsky's shoulder; instead, Stalin said "Your confidence speaks for your sound judgement", and followed Rokossovsky's plan. The operation proved to be very successful for the Red Army and the Soviets liberated all of Byelorussian SSR and gained eastern Polish territories. The Army Group Centre faced destruction.
“The German army is a machine, and machines can be broken!”
- Konstantin Rokossovsky
@Boden McDaniel You ever been to Belarus? They still celebrate their Soviet past.
Germany: Operation Ba-
Soviet Russia: Operation Bagration
Soviet Union*
@@Mad_Nomad-j8n Axis countries Germany, Rumania, Hungary, Italy: Barbarossa
@@francisco-vd9yv i know which countries were in axis
@@francisco-vd9yv The funny part is that Finland had I think 4 or 5 operations for the opening of the Continuation War.
@@Weesee_I I listed those countries because many people think and say that it was poor Germany alone against the world, and yes, I didn't include Finland, Croatia and maybe some others.
This is, totally, one of the best videos on this channel. Truly impressive how good the content and the animation has gotten.
The fact that I'm watching this all for free is mindboggling. Keep up the phenominal work the quality just has no limit!
I remember asking you to cover this topic months ago and you saw it,
It feels good to have someone who really cares about their fans
This operation is often overshadowed by D-Day or Stalingrad, but it is just as important. Thank you for bringing awareness to the forgotten battles of history!
D-Day is joke compared to any operation undertaken by either soviets or nazis on the eastern front
Forgotten? Maybe for people who have never researched WW2.
Perhaps in russia, people celebrate this event on the streets
Его источники по цифрам, полное гавно.
@@kousand9917for people, who "knows" history from cinema
You should do a “Downfall of Germany” 2 part series but based on the Eastern Front.
Eastern front:
Your Mg42 has 50 rounds, the enemy has 51 soldiers.
@Moritz der Echte
Richtig
@Moritz der Echte
Richtig unendlich
@Moritz der Echte
Ich habe als erstes "unendlich" gesagt.
@@spaSSkloppe das du als erster unendlich gesagt hast heißt nur das er immer das letzte Wort hat
By God, That opening was amazing. Production value has really increased over the years and especially over the past couple videos
Tip: Delete your divisions before they are destroyed by attrition.
If you disband your division when they are encircled, the equipment goes back to the reserves?
@@sulfuricorange3722 yes
@@sulfuricorange3722 you lose 70% of it or something
@@notoriousblt1038 but if your whole army is annihilated you lose 100%?
@@sulfuricorange3722 no. If you are encircled you lose all of it
Stalin: do you see Army group center?
Soviet military: yes, Comrade Stalin
Stalin: I don't want to
You copied a mediocre comment.
Rokossovsky: You won't for long
Great new episode about an often overlooked offensive: nice animations and well narrated. Keep it up AH team!
@@copeharder7554 cope
@@copeharder7554 ruclips.net/video/sRuqaqTAW30/видео.html
@@pixel6698 ah yes israel's second place anthem
@@copeharder7554 Follow your funny moustache leader's example
@@pixel6698 Follow your Stalin's example, alone in his office,hated by his people,hurting from stroke, left to die by his doctors
German: we have 300 new Tigers coming
Russia: laughs in 2000 T34 reserve
When you literally have more tanks than the enemy can destroy
@@mrporcupine4140 Plus when it's all but guaranteed that on-third of all Germans tanks will break down, and be abandoned for lack of parts. Tigers and Panthers were notoriously maintenance intensive.
@@blank557 Add that by 1944, Soviet Tankers were almost equally skilled as their German counterpart
@@dragonstormdipro1013 britain and russia were on the verge of collapse then lend lease came in and turned the tied
@@alessandroguermandi8828 Land lease alone can't win wars. US aids to Saudi Arabia or Pakistan have proven futile. However the effect of Land Lease were extremely important and helped Britain and Russia immensely.
0:55 Can we just appreciate the skull explosion for a moment here?
Absolutely loving the content you produce. As an avid history buff, I really enjoy the attention to detail and historical accuracy you put into all of your videos. Keep up the awesome work!
Imagine after a tank attack you were the only one in the platoon that survived and then you hear "URA" coming from the distance
I'd just eat a bullet at that point
Man...those casualty counts on both sides are staggering at the end.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends.😊
man the production quality in this one is amazing
the IS2(early) and the IS2(1944) also took part in operation Bagration assisting in the heaviest breakthrough there are photos even seeing these heavy breakthrough tanks with the mine roller attached.
Konstantin Rokosotki one of the best and more underated generals of modern warfare
Rokosovsky*
As opposed to Manstein and Guderian who are hugely over rated but published popular autohagiographies.
@@sulate1 That is what happens when losers write the history and the actual winner is too paranoid to share their story...
@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 I mean if you have Stalin as your leader........?
@@VolnovodDobra Rokossovsky*
You know what I love about this channel. It gives details, with good visuals of the subjects I love.
Did you do an episode on italy and germany in greece?
Yeah we have a video on how Italy struggled in Greece.
@@TheArmchairHistorian thanks man!
Visuals are the best part
@@marcoAKAjoe and they've developed dramatically over the years
0:56 Shout-out to the animator who put a skull in the explosion!
I know, its always the tiny details
Soviet Union broke the invincibility of the Wehrmacht in Stalingrad and broke the back of the German war-machine in this operation once and for all, love to Soviet heroes.
FYI the Russians never chant U-RA U-RA U-RA like many video games portray, it's one long URAAAA
Don't Worry Steiners Counterattack will surely, swiftly sort this out.
The person or people who was reasonable for the skull in fire and action sequence deserves an absolute raise. you now what if that person reveal him/herself I will give that a mediocre painting for free because holy lord that actually made me hyped up for a bit.
Nothing has ever brought goosebumps like these than the opening scene of this video.
Please make more like these.
uh what happened to army group center my comms arent getting through
It was anally annihilated.
Don't come to army group center tomorrow))
Woah! Wasn’t even looking for my music, thanks for using my strings in the opening :)
Akurat zwróciłem uwagę na dobrą nutę w intro. Dobra robota.
0:27 "these men have nothing to fear"
And that's exactly when something to fear came
Ora Ora ora
Ora
URAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Pincer movement evolution
Hannibal:Classic pincer movement
Khalid Ibn Walid:V style pincer movement
Yi Sun Shin:U style pincer movement(Crane wing formation)
Zhukov:"Rapid pincer movement
Btw the Soviets were equipped with a more heavily armed T-34 85 that retains its mass production capability and sloped armor. This made the Soviet offensive even unstoppable.
I read somewhere about the price of T-34s. It's insane how it actually goes cheaper during late-war period
@@A7XFan800 by that point production is likely stream lined to just produce it as well fully mobilized war industry too.
@@A7XFan800
that's not "insane", that's socialist economy.
@@альфредпетрович-д7р that's any economy when people are entitled
@@альфредпетрович-д7р You mean one set up by the US
I like how you represent historical events with respect (not like in "oversimplified history"). Thank you for not making fun of those people
When you wake up and hear men screaming "YRA!" With the sound getting everso closer, you know its over.
I always referred to this as the 'Destruction of Army Group Center' (Heer Gruppe Mitte). This defeat truly removed the illusion of a German-Russian contest; instead, after this, it was strictly mopping up the remaining German elements left behind and a race to Berlin.
12:12 awesome animation everyone! Love seeing the swatstika shot to pieces with the tank count speedily going down in the background. Fine art, imo👍
Its actually a buddhist symbol Germany stole
@@BuiltSimilarG en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
@@tomhawkinson2162 you just proved what i said
@@BuiltSimilarG I added to it.
@@BuiltSimilarG Yeah, so it is a Swastika... He didn't say anything wrong so there is nothing to correct.
Cool video.
The only nit-pick I have is that you for some reason narrate from the German perspective. Like saying "capture" where from the Soviet standpoint it would be "liberate". It WAS the Soviet territory after all.
Comrade, you misunderstand. When Soviet show up? It is always to capture
It wasnt their territory. Whole russian history is based on aggressive expansion, the USSR annected the eastern european states after WW1. Thus it wasnt "liberating", it was recapturing annected cities.
Well when you say liberating it lead to the Soviet Union and eastern block which wasn’t exactly freed to do what they wanted
@@peterlustig6888 history of all nations is conquering and expanding only with few exceptions
@@highjumpstudios2384 Чистая пропаганда.
Наверно ты не понял смысла слова "освободить".
Освободить от немецко - фашистских захватчиков, которые устраивали рабочие лагеря, где всех, кроме себя и своих сателлитов, не считали за людей.
Чтобы понять слово "освободить", посмотри хотя бы фильм "Иди и смотри".
Бред в общем ядерный не несите.
Hello can you do the Emu War From The Emus perspective next thanks armchair historian
It would be cool
Eat wheat and run, you can't go wrong- Emu
that'd actually be great for an april fool's video
@@SuperGman117 yes it will be
Possible titles:
The great emu war
The time the flightless birds fly
The blitzkreig of of the emu-s