Posted on 06/10/2015 8:06:40 PM PDT by Oatka
casualty count of WWII in graphic format
Click on the “Video” icon. 15 minutes long and quite an eye-opener.
The thing has a ticket price? No thanks.
No. It doesn’t cost anything to watch it.
Not a paywall, then, only a request. I stand corrected and will bump this in apology.
8.7 million Russian casualties, wow.
It is a voluntary donation. Watch it and pay what you think it is worth.
“I’m not saying your Russky lacks guts. Hell, look at all them the Nazis killed and they still wouldn’t quit.”
Seriously, the average American has no concept what the people of the Soviet Union endured, often at the hands of their own leaders, not only survive that war but to win it. There is much truth to the statement that Hitler was defeated with a combination of British science, American production, and Russian blood. Copious amounts of Russian blood.
“I’m not saying your Russky lacks guts. Hell, look at all them the Nazis killed and they still wouldn’t quit.”
Seriously, the average American has no concept what the people of the Soviet Union endured, often at the hands of their own leaders, not only survive that war but to win it. There is much truth to the statement that Hitler was defeated with a combination of British science, American production, and Russian blood. Copious amounts of Russian blood.
Aside from the interest and importance of the subject, the graphics and animation were extremely well done in a manner I’ve never seen before.
Then Stalin killed the ones Hitler missed.
Typical Russian cheapness - if I remember correctly, they declared war on Japan, shortly before they surrendered.
They lost so many because they had complete disregard for human life. For example, to clear a mine field, they made the Russian troops run through the field and of course, mass slaughter was the result. They claimed they could spare men, but not ammunition. Nice place.
Hitler was an amateur compared to the commies.
Not typical Russian cheapness. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria on Aug 9 1945 was agreed to at the Tehran Conference of Nov. 1943 and affirmed at the Yalta conference
in Feb. 1945. The Brits and Americans wanted the Soviets to enter the war against the Japanese. The Soviets agreed that they would attack the Japanese in the Far East no later than 90 days after the end of the war in Europe. The Reds were living up to their agreement with the Western allies.
This point has been debated and there are 2 sides to the issue. We were still over a hundred miles from Berlin when the Soviets got there. Could we have gotten there first? Maybe but the casualties were estimated to be extremely high and by then we had lost over 400K dead since we belatedly entered the war. And what would be the payoff? We had agreed to give Berlin to the Soviets anyway. It was to remain in their sphere of influence. Besides, we still had business in the Pacific to settle. The A bomb wasn't a definite then and an invasion of Japan was estimated to cost over a half million more American lives. With that looming possibility, the talk of fighting and defeating the Soviet Union (a la George Patton's proposal)would have taken years with hundreds of thousands additional potential causalities borders on the obscene.
It's funny that Patton thought he could do that in a matter of months. There was a dead corporal in Berlin who made the same miscalculation.
That's what I thought - very clever. I've downloaded it for future replays.
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