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Originally Posted by godofthunder9010 I would absolutely love to see an entire series devoted to accurately telling the tale of the Eastern Front of World War II. FAR too much happened on that front to hope to fit into a single film. That was the front where Europe was won or lost. Had the USSR been defeated, Nazi Germany may very well have had enough manpower and resources to knock down the rest of the world, bit by bit. Germany vs the USSR, is massively undervalued by most of the world. Many are barely aware of the importance of that front. If the USSR were defeated in 1941/1942, no D-day would have ever been possible and it is unlikely that Continental Europe could have been liberated from German control ... well for a very very long time indeed. Preferably, a non-biased telling from both sides would be great <- That is unlikely since the public always prefers to have a good guy and a bad guy, with the good guy winning out in the end. It's difficult to qualify either head of state (Hitler and Stalin) as being a "good guy" exactly. Truth be told, the lesser of two evils won that conflict. |
Hear hear. The greatest conflict in the history of humankind and most people barely know anything about it.
If I had to choose a single battle it would be 'Operation Typhoon', the German final thrust for Moscow. I find it remarkable that in the 12 weeks since Barbarossa had begun, the Red Army suffered more casualties than any other army in all of human history and yet still came back to win in the end. Incredible story of the courage and tenacity of a nation against a battering that IMO would have finished off any other country. A story that deserves to be fully told. If the Russians had been Americans John Wayne, Harrison Ford and Tom Cruise all would have starred in movies about the Eastern Front I'm sure.