Air war at the eastern front 1 of 5

It looked like a new easy Blitz Krieg. The sovjets - and particularly Stalin - was taken by completely surprise. In the first few hours of war, the russians lost 1600 airplanes - most of them nicely parked side by side in long rows at the airfields.
But little by little luck should run out for the germans.
In an enormous effort the russians moved all aircraft factories to the other side of the Urals where they rebuild them, and then an enormous amount of newly designed highly compettitive fighters began to leave the factories . . . . and although the russians did not have many battle hardened pilots, the quantity won over quality in the end.

Carl Vendler

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Education

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• air
• war
• eastern
• front
• ww2

[randy95023]

Thanks for posting. Eastern front documentaries are surprisingly rare. Very interesting piece of history!

[spritz0]

Yes, I agree and add my thanks to Olfux for the upload!!

[eckrich60]

Herr Hitler beat Uncle Joe to the punch!

[casper123]

Thanks for uploading!

[gopconservative78]

Then the French surrendered again........just to be safe

[sheemsheem]

HOLY SHIT!!! 1800 aircraft for 35 nazi planes? DAaaaaaamn son! german aces!

[sheemsheem]

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIiceeeeeeeeeee­ee ... RUSSIA sacrificed the most during ww2!!! evene women on the frontline!!!!! the allies owe it all to russia...long live germany!!

[BuddyWillis]

no english subs for the luftwaffe kraut at the end make me have a sad :[

[MrAapenkind]

@dozjik warchild :)

[LiviuFloreaRo]

6:53 is that a Hurricane??? I only know of the Romanians flying Hurricanes on the Eastern front.

[ImposingSumo]

02:50 "But Fortunately"?! How was it fortunate that soviet fighters were not available?