Great War. Series 6 - operation Bagration. part 5 of 5

part 6, 5-5 operation Bagration. English subtitles are available. (CC button)
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[Pat21617]

Thank you for the translation!

Growing up in the 1950's we were NEVER taught anything about the Russian German War. The scope and scale of this particular offensive is staggering and hard to imagine. Some will say that we gave the Russians the means to fight the Germans, trucks, spam etc. but they provided the manpower which is the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you again for the translation, it was a great documentary.

[brocalfur]

@moonshot925

Yeah Sicily landing...really a turning point of the war....almost as important as the conquest of Denmark yawn.

[mookins45]

@astrofly Of 53 panzer divisions, over 40 were employed exclusively on the Eastern front, or so I've read. Lend lease aircraft at no point comprised more than 5% of VVS inventory. In March '44, 40% of Luftwaffe losses were in the East- and the Red Airforce was always a lagging indicator of Soviet strength. It's a question of scale and timing- Hitler threw his weight into the East, 80% I've heard, and the war was decided there by the end of '43, before our great strength arrived.

[astrofly]

@mookins45 What about the massive and continuous strategic bombing of Germany by the US and Britain? This severely crippled German industry and forced the diversion of fighter aircraft away from the Eastern front. By 1945, 50% of all German fighter aircraft were dedicated to intercepting US/British bombers instead of protecting Stukas or shooting down Soviet Il-2's on the Eastern front. This left Red Army artillery completely free to mass in huge numbers.

[astrofly]

@mookins45 What about the massive amount of aid the USA provided the Soviets with the lend-lease program? The USA shipped over $138 billion worth of goods to the Soviet Union. 18700 aircraft, one million miles of telephone wire, 14 million pairs of boots. 2000 train locomotives and 11,000 rail cars, 363,000 transport trucks. By1945 2/3 of Soviet transport trucks were supplied by USA. Do you think the Red Army would have been capable of these huge offensives without transport?

[cbflcm]

на каких условиях наши деды воевали, и за кого, и за чего? только за нас, только за наше будущее. а где сеычас СССР?

как жалко что новое поколенее мало знает (или вообще ни чего не знает) об етих героях.

[timeniazaipal]

@TelPrank

German forces could smash Red Communists !!!!! (с) - you just glooped.

And сommunism is here entirely to do with it. People are angry at the Nazis for what they are plunged into the chaos of war, the Soviet Union.

If you think we are all communists - then you just think in stereotypes of the Cold War. I feel sorry for you.

[mookins45]

@TelPrank Oh damn, I didn't get that you were snarking and responded to the wrong guy! Sorry about that!

[TelPrank]

@mookins45 that was respond to a dumbas american who remembered how important the Sicily landing was :)) I know bout russian red-army. I am russian

[mookins45]

@TelPrank The Western effort made almost no difference militarily. By the time the Western allies made their presence felt, the war's outcome had already been decided in the East. The Soviets saved the world from a Fascist Dark Age.

[SlaponeIllizium]

@Eurofighter19 never thought that the former soviet union participated in ww2. There is no such country =/

even here you put your little bit of salt on the russians

[3602752599]

thankyou for the subs. wish more old soviet world war 2 movies has subs, sure would like to see them and be able to hear them in english.