75–80% of casualties the Wehrmacht happened against the #RedArmy
The EASTERN front saw 4 of the 5 BIGGEST battles in the entire HUMAN history:
1. Siege of Leningrad 2. Battle of Stalingrad 3. Siege of Baghdad* 4. Battle of Berlin 5. Battle of Kiev
2/ One example:
In Kursk, the #RedArmy defeated a #Nazi force of almost 1 MILLION men, 2,928 tanks and 2,110 aircraft
D-Day was a MINOR operation by comparison:
In Normandy, the Allies only faced 50,000 Axis men, including reservists and teenagers, with NO tanks and NO aircraft
3/ WHY there were only 50,000 #Nazis in Normandy?
Why even reservists and teenagers were fighting the allies?
Because by 1944, the war was ALREADY OVER, the best of the best of the REMAINING #Nazi army was in Russia, TRYING to stop the operation #Bagration of the #RedArmy
4/ Just check the dates:
- Stalingrad, Feb 1943- German 6th Army capitulates
- Kursk, Aug 1943- #Nazis lost the largest tank battle in history
- Bagration, Jun 1944- Biggest defeat in German military history (28 of 34 #Nazi divisions destroyed)
- Normandy landings, Jun 1944 🤡
5/ And please stop the "Lend-Lease" myth:
David Glantz/Mark Harrison:
"Lend-Lease did NOT arrive in sufficient quantities to make a difference" (less than 5% of the needs)
"Result would have been the same, except that the RedArmy won't have stopped until reaching France beaches"
6/ J. House, T. Davies, A. Hill and many other historians agree:
C. Hamilton:
"The vast majority of LEND-LEASE arrived AFTER the #RedArmy had won the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk. By the time the 1st Sherman was put into action, the #Nazi army was already defeated"
7/ So, why most western people is NOT aware that the #RedAmy was the force that beat the #Nazis?
Easy answer: PROPAGANDA
- By 1945 most people in France thought that the #RedArmy deserved the most credit for the Nazi defeat
- But by 2004, the French had changed their minds
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PROPAGANDA.
Yes, Hollywood is pretty good.
9/ Plus, the #RedArmy not only fought against Germany
Thousands of soldiers from France, Spain, Romania, Finland, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Belgium, etc, took part in the invasion of the USSR
"Hitler made the original NATO" (@FOL_Liberation)
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10/ What was the key to the #Nazi defeat?
What no other country did: The GREAT Evacuation
The biggest logistical operation in the human history
Thousands of industries and millions of civilians (including Jews) were saved, moving them out of the reach of the Wehrmacht.
11/ In fact, when the Wehrmacht reached Moscow, #Hitler already knew that HE WAS FCKD!
"My Generals understand war, but no economics"
The new Urals factories were ready
The URSS were even ready to lose Moscow (Kuybyshev was chosen to be the alternative capital)
The only....
12/ The only remaining chance was Fall Blau
The only remaining chance was taking the Caucasus oil fields, cutting the energy of the Ural factories, and re-supplying the German fuel stock
Left. #Nazi offensive in the summer, 1942
Right. Russian counter-offensive, winter 1942/43
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This is ODD.
Several countries are sending extra weapons to the #Ukronazis, but #Northrop Grumman -one of the biggest weapons makers in the world- is printing a massive DOWN candle (-20%), the biggest drop in 10 years.
The stock is back at PRE-WAR levels.
Why?
What do they know?
1. The US wants to crush the European weapons makers 2. So the US is just waiting to have the burning Leopards pictures to say, “See?, your weapons are trash, you need OUR weapons”
3/ MAJOR update, maybe this is why the weapons stocks were falling:
A report just published by RAND Corporation, is suggesting stopping the war against Russia so the US can focus on their main threat: China
“a long (military) war poses major challenges for the United States…”
Anatoliy #Tymoshchuk, the best football player in the history of #Ukraine, he pushed UKR to 8th place in the '06 World Cup
He’s one of 119 sports/cultural figures sanctioned by Zelensky, all his assets frozen, and all his awards revoked.
His crime? “Lack of comment on the war”🤐
I’m an Orwellian way, no evidence has been presented to support the claims against #Tymoshuck other than “lack of comment on the war”
Fortunately the rest of the world do remember Tymoshuck.
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And as usual, WEST Ukrainians are quick to showcase their “European Values”, this is just one of the comments posted on @Timo_44, his official account:
Did you know that more French soldiers fought on the #NAZI side than the Allied side?
That's why there is no "official French history" of the Second World War.
Thousands took part in the Soviet Union invasion.
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This was stated by @TimothyDSnyder (Levin Professor of History at Yale), he held this lecture at an expert talk at the German Bundestag on 20th June 2017.
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Most people questioning Snyder's words are missing the elephant in the Room: #VICHY FRANCE
- The French Milice fought the resistance
- The French Police and Gendarmerie fully collaborated in the Jew genocide, family by family, house by house.