The Second Best Army of World War II

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lol.

Slavs cheerleading the USSR as if they did anything impressive. "Quantity has a quality of its own" - Joseph Stalin

All they had was an endless supply of free American weapons and expendable Russian men. And even that wasn't enough to beat tiny Finland. About as embarrassing as Italy needing bailing out to beat Greece.

Do you know what they did to the dead Germans first? Took their shoes. That's how poor they were.

[Kastrioti1443]

Do you know what they did to the dead Germans first? Took their shoes. That's how poor they were.

loooool and socks, don't forget that

[Anglojew]

Victim count says the opposite.
Not to mention that the Soviets did manage to mount a proper counteroffensive, unlike the sheer incapacity of the British.

Untrue. Look at North Africa.

British Army WW2

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Singapore was a strategic defeat. Britain concentrated on the African and European fronts.

3 times larger "best army" in their fortress should not surrender to worse exhausted army?
ON african front they were fighting mostly italians, worst soldiers world ever seen. Not really hard to look good fighting them.

[Anglojew]

3 times larger "best army" in their fortress should not surrender to worse exhausted army?
ON african front there were fighting mostly italians, worst soldiers world ever seen. Not really hard to look good fighting them.

There was a huge rift between Australia and Britain over this strategy.

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And even that wasn't enough to beat tiny Finland. About as embarrassing as Italy needing bailing out to beat Greece.

I heard Finland lost war versus USSR
also i heard italians were defeated by greeks that is why germans had to intervene

[sevruk]

lol.

Slavs cheerleading the USSR as if they did anything impressive. "Quantity has a quality of its own" - Joseph Stalin

All they had was an endless supply of free American weapons and expendable Russian men. And even that wasn't enough to beat tiny Finland. About as embarrassing as Italy needing bailing out to beat Greece.

I knowing one. Italian soldiers have become famous like cowards in World War II

[alfieb]

They were absolutely.

It didn't help that most of them didn't believe in Mussolini or the war.

[RussiaPrussia]

Red Army only had manpower and unlimited 'murican supplies, sorry to say. But they had a badass anthem to keep them morally good, I give you that.

Britain fought the entire war whilst the USSR was allied with Germany invading Poland and later initially defeated due to Stalin's purges. The USSR can't then be seen as above the USA or Britain.

you dont know anything about WW2 you just keep repeating the same nonsense and lies by western media

Britain set like a pussy on its island and camped it was the USSR who did all the work, like it was in napoleon war.

You didnt watched the video, it explains how the soviet union experienced later an industrial revolution thanks to population immigration into the ural and central asia thats why russians are there today in the first place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitogorsk#History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnito...s#World_War_II

the city Magnitogorsk was built because of that even tody it still holds the third lagrest steal producer in russia as russia itself is today the biggest steal producer in europe


american help ?





Magnitogorsk today


every city in the ural expedienced the same like tyumien and Novosibirsk.



and america didnt fought japan alone. Japan was defeated by the soviets as they tried to conquer mongolia and the soviets invaed Manchuria and korea. This was the only time in fact a allied power managed to attack original japanese imperial land and to conquer it. Americans just fought in indonesia and other island which were conquered by japan but were not japanese land in the first place.

It was not a real war but sandbox war with gadchets and technology which were useless in real combat. Maybe japanese were strong in the sea but they were horrible in land wars. Can you name me any japanese tank, i dont know any?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%...ese_War_(1945)

[Mans not hot]

After looking at the video there is something I'd like to ask to anyone with good military history knowledge.

When was cavalry phased out in European warfare?
If I'm not mistaken it was still relevant during the times of the Franco-Austrian war (notably Solferino 1859) but prior to World War I it was already outdated.

Was it used in the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian Wars?
If yes, then was it phased out during the peace-time of la Belle Époque?

In general, cavalry was phased out after the WW1, mostly being converted to tanks. This followed the experience of WW1, where cavalry didn't show much, except on the Eastern Front. Despite this, cavalry was used on a large scale during the Soviet Revolution, and during the Polish-Soviet war 1920. The Soviets amassed a huge Horse Army under Tukhatchevski, and advanced on the southern part of the front for several hundred kilometers. Poland had cavalry units as well, fast moving units gave a remarkable advantage of mobility.


The last use of cavalry on large scale was during the 1939 Polish-German war. Poles used cavalry as recon units, mounted infantry, and horse artillery. The latter was mostly equipped with the Bofors light cannon, and used against tanks, with success.

After the September campaign, the only unit of Polish Army which remained operational was cavalry, under Mjr Dobrzanski. The unit led a successful guerilla war until April 1940, when it was destroyed in an ambush. The very last use of cavalry would be in 1945, when the Polish Second Army advanced in Pomerania. Germans were defending a well fortified village, and the attempt of taking it with infantry and tanks failed. The ensuing cavalry attack broke German defenses.