How were the Russkies able to pull off the biggest half-time comeback in history?

Once the Russians knew the Japs wouldn't invade from that side; they were able to bring 45 divisions from the East to West Russia during halftime.......

After the winter was over Fritz' goose was kooked and only matter of time before Fritz is ready to eat.........

People did not learn from WW1 and were still under the impression that conditional surrender was possible.

Hitler was hoping that a shock attack with serious gains (that he new were not sustainable in the event of prolonged confrontation) would bring Stalin to the table to cut a deal that saw Germany getting all of what they had overrun.

Of course common mentality had changed by that point and the war turned into something of a war of survival rather than a chess match of old, Stalin dug in and 50 million people died.

There weren't very man scenarios where Germany could actually beat the USSR while so stretched out in terms of logistics and resources. Imo the only thing Hitler could have done to save his position would have been to more aggressively pursue a relationship with the UK early on in anti-communist alliance and ensure naval supremacy that would have surely choked the Soviets out.

>publish your personal diary including plans to take over the Soviet Union
>surprised the Russians didn't openly believe the Germans wouldn't try shit and ramp up defences

The main thing people always forget was it wasn't a war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Not even in the European theatre. The Allies had much more men and much more resources.

This, people forget Britain played a massive role as well and I know it is easy to forget they were in WW2 at all but even the USA made a small contribution.

Eating boiled leather shoes gives you superpowers.

More than small, in a certain context. At the critical stage of the beginning of Barbarossa the US provided material aid that the Soviets needed badly to buffer the tide while setting up new production in the East.

On top of that, the United States engaged Japan, ensuring that the Japanese would not attempt an invasion in the far East and allowing for Stalin to re-route 70 experienced Siberian divisions to fight the invading Germans.

Once the USSR was back on its feet it didn't require so much support from the US but in the early stages of lack of preparedness they did much to allow them to get there.

Many things.
The Nazis severely underestimated the industrial output of the Soviet Union and its allies.

They also failed to take Moscow due to a failed offensive and the subsequent re routing of troops to Stalingrad.

Even then they still had a chance but weather bogged down their mobility and bought the Soviets time to mount counter offensives.

This is textbook war.

>More than small, in a certain context. At the critical stage of the beginning of Barbarossa the US provided material aid that the Soviets needed badly to buffer the tide while setting up new production in the East.

That was Britain not the US.

historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans.htm

Did you know a year has 4 seasons and ww2 lasted for more than a year?

Russia only won because America started sending them trucks and other motorized vehicles. If it wasn't for that then they would've been stuck at WW1 levels of mobility and have lost the war.

Are you trying to impress us with your understanding of '4' and '2'. Go sniff some glue - eat the whole tube

They were already winning by the time significant amount of US supplies came through.

Thems fancy numbers

> If it wasn't for that then they would've been stuck at WW1 levels of mobility
Probably.
> and have lost the war
Why tho? They would still had both the manpower and the industry advantages, it would just took more time to crush the Germans.

levels of autistic fury that shouldn't have been possible.

Whenever people bring up aid Britain send to Russia, I ask them

"So where did Britain get that material?"

>DATS RIGHT MOTHER FUCKER, AMERICA SENT IT

>British build material
>the US sent it

You are one imaginative mother fucker I'll give you that.

ok fine, you tea sipping redcoats sent radios too

And the British build tanks that saved Moscow.

Are you serious? Britain was already starved for material and getting it from the United States. Why on Earth do you think they were the ones producing it.

I already gave a source. Would you mind giving your's rather than ranting based on your own imagination and vague understanding of WW2 from Disney films.

haha before America even entered the war! woohoo!

Disney > "historynet"

I see.

Yeah those Matilda tanks were so useful compared to the t34

Can someone explain this with a food analogy rather than hockey? I don't play hockey.

The T34 was certainly superior to the Matilda, there is no doubt about that. I'm glad we can agree the Brits and the USSR saved Europe.

>How were the Russkies able to pull off the biggest half-time comeback in history?
logistics wins wars

>we could've won without america! ex de

Just remember, 2 out of 7 continents on Earth are named after the USA.

nazis bit off more then they could chew

The USA is named after one continent and that is possibly the most irrelevant and retarded "point" I have ever heard.

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Americans refballed them to victory

They tried to make Stalin hit his pre-set kill limit but he'd lost that in an operating system crash when his wife shot herself.

American fuel, food, and material to make shit was pretty important to england at the time desu.

Thinking the soviets had any value placed on life was the reason. Hitler was like The Riddler and Stalin was The Joker.

I love the way you are attempting to slowly move the goalposts from "the USA supplied Russia with the military supplies that helped beat Operation Barbarossa" to "the USA was engaging in international trade with the UK".

I appreciate the attempt at rhetoric but not all of us are retards that are so easily able to be diverted from the discussion in hand.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't the Nazis ~15 miles from Moscow, where they were pinned by a fuckhuge rag tag army and stopped long enough for one of the worst winters in the 20th century to set in.

There must be more to this though- someone please fill in the blanks if you know

I get that english is your second language, but I'm not moving goalposts.

What I'm doing is supplementing my original point.

We gave shit to anglos AND to russkies.

If it makes you feel any better America provided the means to kraut killing, anglos and russkie did the bulk of the fighting.

Meanwhile in the pacific America BTFO the japs without any european help.

This is the most vague post ever. What is your original point?

The people on this board are fucking idiots

Pretty sure they weren't "rag tag"

IIRC they were a well-equipped and well-trained army from the far east

cool, thanks for the fact. I guess they were well-trained in anticipation for another war with Japan?

I think the rag-tag army I was thinking of were the people actually waiting in Moscow for the Germans, if the army transferred from the east failed to stop them?

It's because of Zhukov.

>I guess they were well-trained in anticipation for another war with Japan?
Yes, right on the money

>a few British tanks stopped the Germans at Moscow which was fought in conditions far below zero
t. lindybeige

Nazis fucked up really bad in almost every area.

Intelligence
Counter Intelligence
Logistics
Occupation
Transport
Arming of Allies
Use of Allies

The only reason they lasted so long was that they were initially better led and better trained while counting with more aggressive commanders. This made their initial successes great and made it take longer to tear them down.

That said their eventual defeat at the hands of the soviets was a foregone conclusion. The only questoon was how long.

haha, as if russian bullets could best a well-forged katana

The red army defeated the Wehrmacht not the winter.

The gemans depleted their reserves within months of barbarossa.

The Russians still had ample reserves by the fall of Berlin.

>half-time comeback
Not really no.

It was a numbers game. 1 german for 100 russkies and they still kept coming...
Soviets won by sheer numbers, not by skill or equipment

>Soviets won by sheer numbers, not by skill
The red army was better than the Wehrmacht in every way.

This has already been backed up.

Here's Quickipedia...

>In June 1941, within weeks of the German invasion of the USSR, the first British aid convoy set off along the dangerous Arctic sea routes to Murmansk, arriving in September. It was carrying 40 Hawker Hurricanes along with 550 mechanics and pilots of No. 151 Wing to provide immediate air defence of the port and train Soviet pilots. After escorting Soviet bombers and scoring 14 kills for one loss, and completing the training of pilots and mechanics, No 151 Wing left in November, their mission complete.[46] The convoy was the first of many convoys to Murmansk and Archangelsk in what became known as the Arctic convoys, the returning ships carried the gold that the USSR was using to pay the US.

>By the end of 1941, early shipments of Matilda, Valentine, and Tetrarch tanks represented only 6.5% of total Soviet tank strength, but over 25% of medium and heavy tanks in service with the Red Army.[47][48] First seeing action with the 138 Independent Tank Battalion in the Volga Reservoir on 20 November 1941,[49] Lend-Lease tanks constituted between 30 and 40% of heavy and medium tank strength before Moscow at the beginning of December 1941.[50][51]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

Here's a pop-his source...

historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans.htm

This is a proper academic source, which I guess you don't have access to since you're an internet shitposter rather than someone interested in genuine study of history.

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13518040600697811

Go fuck yourself with your Youtube tier bullshit, I wouldn't have even heard of "lindybeige" if it wasn't for low quality posters like you.

Germans terminated russians as if they were roaches, at one point there wasn't enough germans to keep BTFOing russian insects

Get the fuck off my board you fucking normie idiot.

red army
>shit, outdated weapons from XIXth century
>shit tanks
>shit generals that couldn't think of a single tactic aside from zerg rush
>russians can't fight for shit
>lot of infihting between different ethnic groups within red army, to the point where they're impossible to control
>human waves
wehrmacht
>superior soldiers
>superior weapons
>superior tanks
>superior tactics
>only downside was they were massively outnumbered by reds, like 1 x 100

wrong
wrong

Zhukov making victory achievable + Stalin not allowing anyone to lose.

A betting man would have said that France wouldn't have succumb to Germany so quickly, if at all, and that Russia almost certainly would have capitulated.

The attack east came shortly after Stalin purged his best generals, and the Red army had a terrible track record abroad. France, on the other hand, had the Maginot Line prepared and a long track record of successfully resisting Germany, or outright defeating Germany, in some cases. Even in the last world war, Russia performed poorly and was only survived by Germany mostly being tied up in the western front, with the national Russian attitude being "peace, at any cost".

Surprisingly, the Germans quickly overcame the half-hearted resistance the Line provided, and the French government capitulated within a month. Stalin, poured seas of blood to resist Germany, and Zhukov was able to lead the Red Army in successfully taking Berlin, albeit at tremendous casualties, all throughout the advance into Germany.

Once Russia got its shit together its tanks were clearly superior to German ones, and weren't overengineered to break down every other day.

Holy shit

#UtterDecimation

I thought Germany poured a vast majority of its military into the east, and only a fraction into the western and north african front?

They did, in the second. In the first world war, Germany's overwhelming attention was in the west.

I think russians could try to invade Latvia and still lose 10 times the latvian population in soldiers.

Haha, no it was the American lend lease program that saved the eastern front, hahaha..

oh fuck I misread, sorry

And who supplied the British which made all that possible?

>DATS RIGHT MOTHER FUCKER, AMERICA

We went through this as well, c'mon Terence did you think you could just sneak back into the thread later?

Nope. The US lend lease program primarily happened after the USSR was already winning, that's not to say it wasn't useful, but it was a bit late in the day.

America propped up the economies of both Britain and the USSR. They owe everything to us.

Based Stalin didn't even care about how many of his people died so the Germans had to literally murder all the men, women and children to win.

>Americans bragging about their grandpa's wearing pretty pink aprons to make the real men weapons to fight

lol

Both continents your speaking of were named after an itallian sailor.

We won you the war you ungrateful prick

>loadsamoney from the yanks

and

>italy being a complete fuckup yet again (the invasion of greece)

They had a mobile IV drip of steroids in the form of US and UK aid.

They were also playing with more players on their team.

napoleon didn't think they'd really just burn their own shit to mess with him

They were doing so in 1942, but even by 1943, the split of the Heer (the land army, the air forces had almost always been predominantly against the West) was about 80/20, and by 1944, about 60-40. One thing that often gets overlooked is that the casualty ratios are very different from the deployment ratios: The Western Allies had a command of the sealanes that forced the Germans to spend lots and lots of men guarding areas that were never attacked and were often cut off by the actual Allied advances. The Soviets were able to do this far less often, with the Courland pocket being the only one I can think of offhand still "active" at the end of the war.

The germans actually never had a chance.

is he ok?

This. They were only good at quick offensives. They never had a chance at long term war.

>siberian divisions meme
operationbarbarossa.net/the-siberian-divisions-and-the-battle-for-moscow-in-1941-42/

>wrong

In what strategic area was the Wehrmacht superior to the red army in 1945?

You're right, they were under engineered to break down every other day.

>superior soldiers
Huh?
>superior weapons
No. Soviet weapons were as good as the German ones
>superior tanks
No. The T-34 was much better and cheaper to produce
>superior tactics
In the beginning of the war maybe
>only downside was they were massively outnumbered by reds, like 1 x 100
1 x 100? You can't be serious.

>T-34s
nice meme

Better at retreating

That optimism wasn't at all restricted to Hitler.

Disregard this if you're just using Hitler as shorthand for the whole German war apparatus though.

No, American L/L helped the Russians to keep up momentum during their comeback, but the Russians already stopped the German offense by that time. Lack of L/L trucks would have slowed (probably stopped) Russian momentum and prolonged the war. Germany might have had a chance to mount another offensive in that time, but they would have eventually lost regardless.

Just easy man, go Gain some creeps and splitpush until you can late game