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Originally Posted by Ollie Garchy SBut regardless, the Germans used the Soviets as great targets -- achieving kill ratios the likes of which the world has never seen. Of the original 20,000 Soviet tanks, built for the defense of the Soviet Union (Ollie laughs), over 19,000 were destroyed during the original German campaign. Even during the final days of the Reich, the Germans were able to slaughter the Russians (such as the Seelower Hoehen) on an incredible and almost Hollywood scale. The Soviets were nothing...just "Germans are incredible soldiers statistics". The war in the east was the greatest example of an enlightened military ethos fighting pure barbarism -- Sparta against Persia, the 300, the glorious, the superior. |
If so, why Germany lost war in Eas? And why actually Germans ended war with Volkssturm and armed Hitlerjugend kids, not Soviets?
Soviets had not superior number of manpower since German forces quickly occupied significantly populated parts of CCCP and thus decreased resources of manpower what CCCP could mobilize. Moreover, during the war the German forces increased with non-german combatants - various Waffen SS divisions as well as non-germans mobilized directly in Wehrmacht (generally Polish and Czech people).
Essential part of any defense operation is counterattack in right time and right place. It is quite difficult to launch counterattack without tanks. And once You took a look on number of tanks of CCCP view them in the context of territory and length of border of CCCP. Then number of tanks is not so great, as it could look in the first step.