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Back after a long long absence.
After reading quite a few western (German, French, English, American) books on military history i notice quite a few trends.
1. Russian military was ineffective, its army primitive and incompetent and it would NEVER win against Germany on its own.
2. Germany had laser weapons, time travel and generally its level of technology was so unbelievably high that its only through valor of the western allies that it was beaten.
3. Not nearly as important or prelavent but it touches my country, Poland rolled over in a week.
These 3 struck me as outright lies but i started thinking about why would the so called "western world" bend and warp history?
Could it be because in reality Russia single handedly bested the Wehrmacht and by the time Normandy happened the end of the war was a question of "when" and not "if"?
Could it be that Poland, betrayed by France and England performed better against greater odds than these two countries a year later which caused it to be smeared and belittled?
Could it be that morale of english, french and american soldiers at large was so low that it warranted gloryfying Germany as some sort of super enemy to hide the fact that western morale bordered o cowardice and was nowhere near that of Russia?
Essentially what i'm asking about is whether the West belittles the central and eastern European effort and paints Germany as a force of nature because between the betrayals of allies, the political blunders and the inadequacy of its own soldiers the western Europe and USA made a particulary sh*tty performance in comparison to Germany, Russia and to some degree Poland?
After reading quite a few western (German, French, English, American) books on military history i notice quite a few trends.
1. Russian military was ineffective, its army primitive and incompetent and it would NEVER win against Germany on its own.
2. Germany had laser weapons, time travel and generally its level of technology was so unbelievably high that its only through valor of the western allies that it was beaten.
3. Not nearly as important or prelavent but it touches my country, Poland rolled over in a week.
These 3 struck me as outright lies but i started thinking about why would the so called "western world" bend and warp history?
Could it be because in reality Russia single handedly bested the Wehrmacht and by the time Normandy happened the end of the war was a question of "when" and not "if"?
Could it be that Poland, betrayed by France and England performed better against greater odds than these two countries a year later which caused it to be smeared and belittled?
Could it be that morale of english, french and american soldiers at large was so low that it warranted gloryfying Germany as some sort of super enemy to hide the fact that western morale bordered o cowardice and was nowhere near that of Russia?
Essentially what i'm asking about is whether the West belittles the central and eastern European effort and paints Germany as a force of nature because between the betrayals of allies, the political blunders and the inadequacy of its own soldiers the western Europe and USA made a particulary sh*tty performance in comparison to Germany, Russia and to some degree Poland?