...whatever. commies.
So, Pravda being Pravda, uh?
Why is so much crap from Pravda being posted on a supposedly conservative site?
This Pravda piece is a pile of crap.
[Simply put, the West never had the stomach for the casualties that were taken by all sides of the Eastern Front. . .]
True enough. If we had a leader like Hitler or Stalin we would have mutinied and hung them from a lamp post.
Stalin murdered more Russians than the Nazis did.
America is in decline, while Mother Russia retools its nuclear arsenal. America is becoming weak, while Russia's power grows, through its alliances with countries like Iran. Someday soon, Russia will challenge America. America has no more stomach for war. Russia will fight to the death. Don't even bother to engage us, America. You might as well just surrender up front.
That is the purpose of this psyops piece.
And unfortunately, the US government has been taken over by Fascists, Communists, Internationalists and Thugs.
WWIII is going to be really nasty.
If the Øbamanistas disarm us, we may have to fignt with kitchen knives, frying pans, and maybe baseball bats.
I'm ready. Screw a bunch of Lefties.
As someone posted above, Whatever, commies...
Lending credibility to Pravda about European history feels a lot, though, like lending credibility to Al Gore about climate science....a little ridiculous.
Let’s not forget that Hitler and Stalin were chums until the Germans invaded, either.
As with all monstrous lies, there is a grain-or-two of truth in this piece, without which it would be laughable.
HUH???
I'll pass on #1, but there is more than a grain of truth in the rest of the piece.It was all OK, tho, because we had a Democratic administration and we were allied with the Soviet Union </sarcasm>.
- most of the German casualties were on "der Ostfront" - the Eastern Front. And most of the Allied casualties as well. Simple historical fact. American/British troops killed on the Western Front were/are just as dead as any Russian casualty, but there were a lot of Russian casualties.
As General Patton pointed out, of course, the objective wasn't to take casualties but to inflict them . . . a point that sometimes seemed too subtle for Stalin's people, who had some "undesirables" to dispose of.
- There were plenty of casualties taken by the Australians and other Commonwealth countries as well, in the Pacific as well as elsewhere.
- American bombers used the Norden bombsight, and, although it was undoubtedly a fine instrument, it could not in the nature of things achieve the accuracy claimed for it. Allowing for airspeed and altitude is relatively straightforward, but the distance traveled from release point to impact point is critically dependent on the initial vertical velocity of the bombs when released. The bombsight had to assume that vertical velocity was zero - but if it was off by 32.2 feet per second, the time the bomb would take to impact would be off by a whole second. And at about 240 mph, say, that would be a range error of 350 feet. About the distance from one goalpost on a football field to the other. Throw in the altitude error and the airspeed error and the windage error and the sighting error, and the practical accuracy is not all it was cracked up to be.
And then there is there is target identification errors plus what you do when the target is obscured by clouds - and the fact that the British bombed at night. So WWII bombing was hardly surgical. We would certainly consider it a war crime today.
Not to speak of the nightime firebombing raids against Japanese cities, with antipersonnel mines included to suppress the efforts of firefighters, and ultimately the nukes.
And mostly because they started it.
Commies still suck.
What the fu..oh...it’s Pravda. Yep. Russia won World War II all on its own. I’m going to go make coffee, let the dogs out.
What’s with all of the old commie regurge?