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The Situation in the USSR (Patreon)

Published:
2021-03-24 15:33:57
Imported:
2023-06

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This week we provide a bit of an update on the Soviet-German front. The spring has brought with it a thaw of snow, but this melt only turns the many Soviet dirt roads into a sea of impassable mud, halting operations once again as it did in the autumn rains. Ironically, the mud has a greater affect on German fighting capability than the harsh winter, though the winter was by far more deadly. The Germans are in even more trouble because the USSR has been able to deploy more fresh troops than the Germans, who are not beginning to allow women to fill certain civilian roles so that men can be sent to the front, and are even allowing Soviet prisoners to volunteer to fight for Germany. The Germans are also struggling to replace their losses in armour, transport, and horses. 

The fact that the Soviets have held out for this long (largely without Allied support) has created a huge shift in the global balance of power. Britain and the USA are now begging to realise their previous plans for a post-war world order need to pay serious consideration to the Soviets, who are now clearly a world power. 

Files

New Blitzkrieg Against a Wall of 9 Million! - WW2 - 135 - March 27, 1942

The Allies make plans to bring the war to Germany by possibly attacking in North Africa. Holding Malta might be the key to such adventures, but it is increasingly harder to do. The Soviets and German make plans for adding millions of soldiers to their ranks, while springtime mud has kept the front mostly quiet. The Japanese plans for the conquest of Burma are still advancing, though the fighting this week is especially brutal. Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory Or join The TimeGhost Army directly at: https://timeghost.tv Check out our TimeGhost History YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/timeghost?sub_confirmation=1 Follow WW2 day by day on Instagram @ww2_day_by_day -https://www.instagram.com/ww2_day_by_day/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimeGhostHistory/ Between 2 Wars: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAU1R-HeWSfY2D1jy_sEssNG Source list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources Written and Hosted by: Indy Neidell Director: Astrid Deinhard Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson, Bodo Rittenauer Creative Producer: Maria Kyhle Post-Production Director: Wieke Kapteijns Research by: Indy Neidell Edited by: Iryna Dulka Sound design: Marek Kamiński Map animations: Eastory (https://www.youtube.com/c/eastory) Colorizations by: - Daniel Weiss - Adrien Fillon - https://www.instagram.com/adrien.colorisation - Norman Stewart - https://oldtimesincolor.blogspot.com/ Sources: - Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe - IWM: TR153 - Arrow by Dolly Holmes, Factory by Adrien Coquet - from the Noun Project Soundtracks from the Epidemic Sound: - Rannar Sillard - Easy Target - Johan Hynynen - Dark Beginning - Gunnar Johnsen - Not Safe Yet - Howard Harper-Barnes - London - Philip Ayers - Ominous - Flouw - A Far Cry - Jo Wandrini - Dragon King - Craft Case - Secret Cargo - Howard Harper-Barnes- Underlying Truth Archive by Screenocean/Reuters https://www.screenocean.com. A TimeGhost chronological documentary produced by OnLion Entertainment GmbH.

Comments

Anonymous

Thanks for mentioning one of your sources, "Germany and the second world war", I did not know of these books and promptly put them on my wishlist! I need a new bookcase too btw, I fear :-) Great episode, and very interesting to dive into all these choices that need to be made : Atlantic/Europe theater vs Pacific, Send more supplies to Stalin vs supply other theatres, plan for invading Italy vs invade Europe elsewhere....so many choices. I doubt we've heard the last about all of that!

Eric Johnson

It would make a good special or two see how the Germans used the POWs against Russia.

Anonymous

Testing.

Anonymous

"It was spring it the Soviet Union. There was nothing on the road but Muck and Meyer. ("Hiya Muck!" "Hiya Meyer.")

Anonymous

Tonight's episode of Muck and Meyer: "Midget Mullins Gets the Chair, or 'Small Fry.'"

Anonymous

Eisenhower was correct. The terrain of the Pacific and particularly New Guinea precluded the use of large land formations. Besides that, the US will not have enough shipping to move and supply large armies. Not until 1943, in any case- when the US shipyards will be up to full capacity.

Anonymous

What, MacArthur being held accountable to someone else? This is the most heinous injustice in the history of heinous injustices! I suspect I'll be making juvinile comments about MacArthur's juvinile behavior for a while now

Anonymous

Again, a great episode so my compliments to Indy and the whole team! The 'Germany First' doctrine of FDR, IMHO, was already settled before even Lend-lease Act or Trans Atlantic Charter both were conceived. During the late 1930's, the biggest fight FDR was engaged in was domestic...against isolationism and even pro-German factions of antisemitic forces, undermining his New Deal politics and his wishes to get in the game on international economics....so: whereas his mind was with beating the Japanese, eventually, I believe predominantly, in his heart , FDR was determined to stay in support of the UK and thereby secure a bridgehead to 'liberate' Europe in order to establish a solid economic base and eventually dominate both the USSR and China.

Anonymous
>>56364681

The US urge to dominate China was not a thing. China was seen as a huge commercial market by the United States. Former President Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese because he'd been a mining engineer in China in the 1890's. Much of the US opposition to Japan was because Japan wanted to gain control of China's trade policy and dominate it in the way that Britain controlled India's trade policy. There was also a lot of energy in US towards turning China Christian. Missionaries from the US had been going out for decades to all corners of the world, but China was the white whale. These weren't primitive people in grass skirts, these were Grade A potential converts, the civilized heirs of a great civilization waiting to be brought in for Christ. Missionaries from the US had been very active in China and many of the firsthand accounts of Japanese atrocities came from American missionaries on the ground. Chiang Kai Shek himself was a Methodist (and a sincere believer, surprisingly) During the war with Japan, China was not above using these missionary ties and networks to put pressure on the US government. After the war, the hope was that China would be the counterbalance to the USSR on the security council.

Anonymous

There was a case of musical flags on the set this episode. The Australian and Canadian flags changed position midway through the show.

JM

The more I watch, the more I realize that WWII was just the Russo-Germanic war and the Sino-Japanese war plus a few side shows.

TimeGhostHistory
>>56440369

There’s a fantastic outtake when the whole row of flags come crashing down stopping Indy in mid sentence. The look on his face is priceless. We’ll share it some day.

Anonymous

Hey Indy and the gang, another very insightful episode. And I want to congratulate you guys for having a time-appropriate Canadian flag in the background. Not the 🇨🇦 but the old Canadian Red Ensign. The flag my father and an uncle proudly served under.

Anonymous

Hey, it seems that this won't be the last time on the Eastern front that one army would start an attack right into enemy' forces that were preparing for the attack of its own (*cough*ThirdKharkov*cough)... Thank you foryet another great episode!