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Allies: ok so after we break through the Rhine we need to stretch our forc...... Soviets: GOTTA GO FAST
The beginning of ww3.
what was left of the german army,should have been rearmed and engage russian army push russians back to east poland border
Because the Soviets were out to commit the largest mass rape in human history. The Americans weren't.
The glamorous jeff thermodynamically exercise because michelle reassuringly fill outside a ill ant. quickest, pretty holiday
Cause red goez fasta!!!
Because America was never the hero it pretended to be. Just opportunist after the spoils of war.
Uhhhhh
America should reach Berlin because they will restore democracy and liberty
Check the history please. The U.S. soldiers did arrive at the Berlin earlier than the Soviet. Because of the agreement, the U.S. soldiers simply stayed nearby Berlin and let the Soviet soldiers go into Berlin.
According to the facts recorded in WW2, U.S. soldiers did arrive at Berlin earlier than the Soviet soldiers. Only because there had been agreement with Russia, the U.S. just stayed nearby and let the Soviet soldiers go into Berlin.
Politics. Patton was on a short leash
It was personal for the soviets so we gave it to them
Becouse geography
The Russians want slap their cheeky breeky ass
Well soviets lost over 28 million people and were some angry bois
That beginning is funny
usa: we won the space race yay ussr kicks down the door: WE WON THE BERLIN RACE BIT-
Simple. Easier to let the Soviets do all the work and let them take the casualties. Berlin is taken care of and no US casualties
Should’ve done this on April 1st and just ended it there.
bruh they lost more than 20 million people, the soviets were craving for vengeance.
Rush B means Rush Berlin? Hmm no wonder why Russians love to rush b while screamimg blyat
soviets:ok guys imagine running... BUT TOWARDS MACHINE GUNS!!!!
One word: winter
America:Russia How Did You Go To The Berlin Fast? Snow: *its Complicated*
Busy about the nuke
Wow the comment section is a cold war
That this point in the war, I believe Eisenhower was already under the impression that Nazi Germany's time was up, and the Soviets would get Berlin no matter what he did. He already ordered thousands to their deaths, sending more would be pointless since at this stage, all he could do was keep Stalin's Red Army from marching to the French Coast. Eisenhower wouldn't have given a single damn about politics, as he was a General. Taking Berlin would put him in conflict with the bureaucrats back home who were already deciding the post-war political landscape. Which was deplorable. Letting the Soviet Union rule the lives of thousands in Eastern Europe was trading tyranny for tyranny. and for almost four decades, people would risk being shot to get out of East Germany. I will not miss the Soviet Union, and Hitler was a bush-league armature compared to the brutality that was Joseph Stalin.
I’ll tell ya why. USA had to take more land then the soviets and we had war in the Pacific.
Because stailan rush to Berlin and took hevey caulutes
The soviets had some personal beef against the Germans, they full on hated the Germans.
No offense, but how many times did he say allies and allied in the beginning?
And the Soviets where ass ruthless as the Germans and where fighting for Soviet Russia and the motherland
What software you use to animate? and edit ur vids
They had a tough time fighting old men and kids in paper uniforms. If you look at the prisoners taken by the yanks, where children and old men. The battle of the bulge was the inability of unable to read a map. Plus, most US soldiers wre to frightened and shot their guns over the enemys head. War is no place for americans. Look what happened in Koream Vietnam, there were no Russians to win it for you of which you could take credit. Just like italy and taking the credit from the Canadians and the defeat of the nazis in Italy.
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How else stop watching after he said America didnt try
The solviets had a policy of more men than bullets the west wouldn't just march 10 extra million to their death just to conquer an extra country of two especially for the usa's perspective as the uk was now in debt to them and colonies wouldn't be financially maintained hence why they went for independence
Jonathan Lynch, Russia had more men then bullets but not by choice, The only thing that saved them was a decision to become industrialized on a national level just prior to the second war. So production was never even up to speed before they realized how important it would be, I still admire Russia to this day because of their toughness.
simple, moscow is a lot closer to berlin than washington
Because stalin was PISSED when the nazis broke the pakt
Rush B means Rush Berlin
So if you are an armchair historian, does that mean you are like an armchair investigator or armchair psychologist and providing bad info? is this accurate history in the videos?
ciegacita, He seems to be on point, I'm nobody, but I have been interested in ww2 because my grandfather served for 4 years. He is correct as I have seen from tons of other history Ive watched.
And the UK
UK just support the naval and air support
not really
I have nothing but conjecture to back this up, but I must assume. That allied forces knew about the brutality that was taking place on the eastern front and thought it was only right the Soviets be given opportunity for some get back.
Paul F, I think after finding the gas chambers and realizing how tough the islands of Japan were going to continue to be this aspect of "brutality" didn't mean squat, Also America had two top generals in hot water for "encouraging our troops" On POW'S---- If they took the time to capture and handle prisoners they could not have stormed the beaches of Normandy and established the beach-head at the same time, It was one or the other, Sometimes business calls.....
America least we won space race😂😂
Ask The Rhine River to know the truth mate
Everyone knows we let them have Berlin for political reasons. Plus, his country paid much more blood and had "dibs". I wish Germany would have won, but I can't change history, sadly.
USA,lose in the west front,that all
Ironically the allied leaders would disagree......
Socialist and communist regimes always kill more of their own people than any standing army adversary. That’s tried and true.
BECAUSE THEY CANT AND ALSO BECAUSE ITS PERSONAL FOR THE SOVIETS THEY LOOSE 20 MILIONS PEOPLE
Hi Peter Griffin
USA: Let's take it slow Soviets: LEEEEEROYYYYYY
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Wast there a dude carrying a mini gun while we viewed from the sniper scope?😂
lol the beginning
Because those in power with in the US goverment wanted the USSR to take eastern europe and germany. General Patton was outspoken about them keeping him from taking Germany. He was going to expose this corruption and the atrocities against the german people but was murdered.
@stclairstclair people can still wash their clothes and pay theirbills with out giving up on being informed. What a defeatist mentality lol
John Doe, that is a real question, Do I want to spend my existence shaking my fist in defiance of the global oligarchs? They don't wash my laundry or pay my bills, Stay smart man, You're going to make the difference!.....
@stclairstclair good point, guess its better to just been dumb and docile
John Doe, I like some meat in my sandwich please, I love history, But even if everything you said is true, I will never really know or be able to do anything about it.
@stclairstclair Our goverment isn't any different than those of Hitler and Stalin, both of which were propped up by the same people running America. The US govt also killed James Forrestal for instance
The Soviets wanted to own it, not defeat it.
Quick summary the Russians must of had Vodka
The Russians reached Berlin, if they didn’t Stalin would’ve sent all its troops to the gulag
I heard that The US got all the way to Plzen in western Czechoslovakia and Prague was almost at reach, but then they traded Czechoslovakia for Austria. When the US got to Plzen, the Czech people started an uprising thinking that the US would come to their aid in less then a day, but instead they had to wait a week before the soviets came and the uprising was crushed by German Forces before the soviets even got there.
Also the usa and the uk needs to save resources for the possibility of invading Japan.
Why wast men on a division of territory that has already been decided
Imagine if Japan sent it troops to fight alongside the German in Europe
?? if they did that soviet union ganna join war in japan
Armchair generals sounds like a good name for a podcast.
One word... Technology. The nazis had advanced Technology towards the North. Patton wanted to go straight into Berlin but Eisenhower made him go north securing the Technology facilities and the scientist. the Soviets won the race to Berlin. But lost the race to the moon because the nazi technology that was captured by the US
@C Per dude nazi use horse in ww2
C Per, When America landed on the beach and loaded 200,000 men, We had No way, Plans or abilities to get them back off! Every allied leader stated that this operation had to succeed at all cost = Do or-die. So when we were moving into Germany it wasn't taken lightly. Albert Einstein had already snuck out of Europe and so did a few German scientists, America didn't give two shits about the buildings used to build rockets, We could easily seize any information needed after the blood stopped flowing, We had already begun recruiting these men long before the capture of Germany. You and I can piss in the wind all day long, Bottom line we weren't there, Cheers!
@stclairstclair there was no do or die situation. Germany was in full retreat. The war was ending. Nothing to do with British technology. Nazi Technology was far greater advanced then anywhere else in the world at the time. The Americans captured that tech. Used it to get to the moon and far more. Nazi Scientist were part of the Apollo missions. It’s of nazi Scientists and engineers were given American identification and relocated to America.
C Per So you are saying....During a "DO-OR-DIE" mission to defeat the axis power that would someday invade us, we stopped the main objective to gather technology Even though Britton had already shared all of their available technology in agreement for American help fighting???? Um.....no...
Thank you for being objective and avoiding the many conspiracy theories that attempt to smear American leadership.
Maybe because they were fighting in their front yard, and America was fighting it from 5,000 miles away... Russia would have lost if not for the Lend-Lease act from the United States! Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, most russian historians agree, the U.S. saved the russians.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me." -Nikita Khrushchev
A good leader should act for the good of the country. Not thinking of how he would look in history. An attrition war is bad for everyone. Especially for the civilian. Winning as soon as possible, is the doctrine of war. There's always a price to pay by not following the principal / doctrine / procedure.
Look at those m4a3's so inspirational