The Defence of Stalingrad
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Anyone who can sit in front of a camera and keep a straight face while saying, "Operation Uranus called for two powerful thrusts" is a true professional. Bravo, Simon.
That he was able to do that makes him a legend. I can't even watch it without cracking up!
HOW MANY TAKES?! THE WORLD MUST KNOW.
@@Maxislithium One. Just one.
I'm imagining Sam, the memeologist from Brain Blaze, is disappointed at the missed opportunity.
@@badluck5647 golden opportunity for the butt plug meme
“Shockingly Hitler wasn’t a man of his word” is peak British sarcasm. Thank you Simon and the writers, whoever they are
The whole molotov ribbentrop pact was hilarious. Its was like 2 cellmates each waiting for the other to fall asleep first so he could rape the other. Stalin was desperate to get german technology and spy on german tactics while Hitler needed someone with even fewer moral scruples them himself so he could test said technology and tactics somewhere, and they signed their pact in polish blood
@Ewan Callister Stalin was inept but it's unlikely he ever thought Hitler would abide by the pact. Hitler was rabidly anti-communist and Stalin was rabidly anti-fascist. They'd worked together since they were both ideologically isolated and they both knew that the Western Allies were a bigger threat, and both needed to rearm in secret. Stalin had vast tracts of land that no western observer and few western spies could penetrate and his authoritarian rule and state terror allowed him to keep anyone away from testing grounds and keep their mouths shut about anything they saw, but his country was laughably backwards compared to the rest of Europe. Hitler meanwhile had plenty of western observers and spies in his country but had some of the worlds best scientists and engineers. They both had what the other needed so they worked together.
Stalin thought he could beg, borrow, buy, and steal tech from the Germans and with his spies, and like many Russian empires before and after him (even like Putin recently) he fell into a common trap with autocrats: he severly overestimated both his own personal power and listened to the sycophants around him when they reported on how work was progressing. He thought his purges had left his army with a united purpose when it actually left them weakened and terrified into inaction. An ongoing problem with the Soviets too was that since the leaders set unreasonably high work goals while also cutting supplies, food, and laborers it forced factories, mines, farms, etc to lie about their output so the higher ups thought things were doing far better than they were. He probably thought his army was stronger then it really was and thought he could rearm faster then it was capable of.
Hitler meanwhile was in a similar predicament. He routinely overestimated both his own tactical/strategic genius and his armies ability to fight, as well as overestimating his peoples loyalty to him. Commanders, especially towards the end, often disobeyed his orders or "creatively interpreted" them, which worked fine during the earlier parts of the war when he had highly trained soldiers and capable officers but when those got exhausted or were otherwise unavailable commanders either followed the stupid, suicidal orders or completely ignored commands and stayed put.
Another big motivator for Hitler to break the pact that Stalin hadn't foreseen (for reasons previously mentioned) was the Winter War. Stalin performed so poorly that Hitler was certain the USSR was teetering on the edge of collapse, especially since they'd also been suffering famine after famine for decades. Hitler likely would have waited longer to go to war with the USSR and focused on the Western Allies first but decided to strike before he'd defeated the British, fully defeated the French, conquered any real European colonies, or fully consolidated the territory he'd taken.
Adolph Hitler was inflexible and couldn't listen to anyone like a megalomaniac
@Ewan Callister Stalin wasn’t inept, he saw Hitler for what he was. He just didn’t expect Hitler to start a second front, one thing the predicted wrongly since Hitler was absolutely nuts.
I don't get the joke - guess I'm too educated about Hitler to find it funny, since he truly was a man of his word. He even announced the Holocaust and promised it would happen. Get a clue.
Moscow was saved not by winter but a mix of having fresh very well trained troops from Siberia after they had received confirmation that Japan won't invade and that Zhukov came to the scene to re organize the army. This caught the germans completely by surprise as they thought that the red army lacked any reserves to push them back. Then the stretch of their supply lines were a factor.
I understand that the Battle of Khalkhin Gol where Japan was utterly defeated by Zhukov himself, sealed the Manchukuo frontier and put and end to japanese ambitions towards USSR.
This may be a bit less of a factor but most German soldiers were armed with K98 Mauser rifles. Their actions were crippled by the gun pull freezing solid in the bolts. The Russians had experience with this problem and added gasoline to their gun oil.
It was the worst most brutal winter in over 140 years...very ironic timing. Yes it indeed crippled the wehrmacht.
The soviets kept a million men on the border with Japan the whole war im pretty sure.
People love to overstate the effect winter had on the war, as if soviets weren't dealing with the exact same climate and werent dropping like flies since they had even less food and fuel. If it was all about the cold then Hitler would have just pulled back or hunkered down until the thaw and then blitzkrieg to the Pacific in the spring
“Operation Uranus called for two powerful thrusts” lmfaoooo
…after flanking around the sides and meeting up behind the Germans. Lol
What an Ideal way for making a show. Combine not propaganda + foo_nie features of English's not_rerarded pronouncings.
Kursk fortifications could qualify as a Mega Project...
Kursk was brushed aside by Stalin's steamroller
@@joshuasinger8385 He means operation 'citadel'. Russia had fortified the Kursk region to defend against germans 1943 offensive that failed because of the fortifications.
@@DanteKenchi sheer soviet will biggest tank battle in human history.
@@DanteKenchi Yes. They knew about Zitadelle in advance, and had anti-tank trenches, mine fields, artillery, and tanks ready to deal with the attack.
“The Sound of the mortars, the music of Death!
We’re playing the Devil’s Symphony!
Where the Violins are Guns, Conducted from Hell!!!”
- Stalingrad, Sabaton
Nice to meet you!
"Stalin's fortress on fire
Is this madness or hell"
The most garbage band on earth.
I remember a movie called The Beast about a Soviet tank crew in Afghanistan. And the tank commander talked about how when he was 8 years old he took part in the defense of Stalingrad. And how they used to lower him down with a rope and he would stick Molotov cocktails underneath the manifolds of the Nazi tanks. They said they start calling him Tank Boy. He said he took out a lot of Nazi tanks.
That's a good show.
That's definitely on any tanker's shortlist. For some reason I think you already know this.
Great movie
Tank Boy!!! Tank boy!!!
@@ratagris21 oh yeah I remember that part.
After the Russian encirclement the Germans blamed their allies, the Romanians, and Hungarians for the predicament. The Hungarians pointed out that of 4 of their senior officers killed 3 had died in hand to hand combat.
The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.
Superbly vivid language. Who wrote it?
Source? Incredible excerpt.
Google says Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
That is a fantastically written description
According to the series World At War (1966), it was written by a German officer that was at Stalingrad.
Great series, I highly recommend it.
But if you want to know the full truth about Stalingrad, and have days of free time to kill, watch what TIK is doing, right here on TH-cam
Stalingrad never gets old. It's just fascinating carnage.
Neither do the people who lived there in '42
It was also the deadliest battle in human history.
@@seanmccarty1176 specifically speaking, yes the deadliest battle, but the Siege of Leningrad was more destructive and deadly
Me: This doesn't seem like a mega project.
Simon: We really are pushing the definition of a mega project aren't we?
Me: He lampshaded it, this is acceptable.
Suggestions: Illinois & Michigan Canal connecting Mississippi River to Great Lakes, Sears Catalog & its impact, Gateway Arch in St Louis, and Sears Tower.
Asian carp!
Damming the Columbia river in Washington and Oregon! Hanford nuclear plant! Building the space needle!
If I didn't know better I'd think you were digging up local history which would locate you somewhere in about North Central Illinois.
West side of Michigan (here). Asian carp have no natural predators in Lake Michigan and are a result of the channel. Also chefs can't seem to make them into anything that tastes good.
@@BFSilenceDogood fish and dogfood is about all I'm aware of, well fertilizer, that's it as far as major industry goes. I was referring to the o.p. as far as location goes.
Why is it whenever im about to crash (at like 4am, jesus), you've put out an absolute banger of a video
Simple. They’re all absolute bangers. 👍
How did the next day go???
@@piccalillipit9211 perfectly fine, 3 hours sleep and I was golden
"The Art of War" says that if an army is placed with their backs to the wall, they will fight like crazy.
"Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not achieve. Officers and men alike will put forth their uttermost strength. Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear." to be precise
Not only did Stalin threaten to shoot anyone who retreated, he threatened to kill their families too.
* except france
@@rockets4kids This doesn't translate well into french.
@Ruán Conán Yeah, but for a different reason.
If you want to get a feel for this siege, I recommend "Life and Fate" by Vassily Grossman. The siege of Stalingrad plays a prominent role in that novel. Warning: it is a tough book to read. Very tough. But strangely and universally rewarding those who pull through.
@Rachel Pinter That was Vasily Zaitzev...and the movie was only loosely based on the facts... more on the "legend". Which is fair enough! (it wasn't a doco!)
A life-changing novel
Easily the greatest book I’ve ever read
"Operation Uranus called for two powerful thrusts"
I can't believe he didn't go all business blaze and crack up laughing
I mean this is an edited video. There's bound to be outtakes of him cracking up 😂
@@tailssonicteam1604 and knowing Simon there's something in there where he says "they went deep" before eventually making a cocaine reference. 😂
@@tailssonicteam1604 Hahahaha actually that one just went right over my head. Whooosh
".... And meet BEHIND the German forces"
That must have felt painful!
Operation Uranus consisted of two powerful thrusts aimed at the flanks. Yeah, we caught that Simon.
I don't think Simon did 😆
HAHAHA Thats perceptive of you! I never caught that........ Funny and sick at the same time.
We should have started catching it from the 12:17
"...or consign it as just another footnote in the annals of the Third Reich..."
Мне вот интересно неужели это так совпало..)
I wonder is that really a coincidence..)
@@yottamozg "...and meet Behind.."
"Rattenkreig" Tim Robbins' "War of the Rats" was one of the best novels of this and provided the dramatic basis for the movie "Enemy at the Gates".
It’s authenticity is questionable and there’s huge holes in the entire work.
I understand it’s fictional but it’s not for someone looking to get a solid base of facts - it was entertaining
Thank you Simon. I know now how to fortify my room over this three day weekend so that no one may try and drag me away from my computer.
Not one step outside!
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Nou ane step autside ыыыы
You could do a megaprojects on Detroit’s conversion from cars to military manufacturers in WW2. Seeing the Germans using horses reminded me of the logistics advantage the Allies had with Jeeps and heavy trucks.
Germans used horses because they didn’t have enough oil supplies to make a 200-300 division army full mechanized,not because they lacked industrial capacity.Though obviously they were nowhere near on par with industrial complex of United States but who were really?
And use of horses is kinda exaggrated as Red Army used even more horses than Wehrmacht.
Good stuff. And one day in the midst of all that siege and fighting, Soviet soldiers find a gramophone with only one playable record. They played the record and all of the sudden the fighting stops for a little while. Music was being heard by the foes and friends … And all that happened at the Pavolov’s house! Something like that I remember! Thanks, love your show.
Have you covered the construction of the Alcan yet? True mega project and done on an incredible time scale that you can't truly understand unless you've seen it.
I want to say I think he did, but I cannot be 100 % positive
"Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"
-Stalin, probably
“Enemy at the Gates”….not the movie, but the book, is definitely worth reading. It should be required reading for anyone who plans to enter into military service.
100% agree. The book was excellent. The movie, however, had a lot of subtle anti-soviet propaganda.
@@PaulRudd1941 subtle? More like "use your hand to clean your visor" type
@@worldoftancraft maybe I'm just an idiot but I knew it was there at least.
@@PaulRudd1941 there is an abundant amount of it
The interstate through the Rockies. I -70
Especially the Glenwood canyon section. Very impressive project not finished until the 1990s
“Operation Uranus called for two powerful thrust to push around on both German flanks”
Perfect name for a counter attack operation lmao
@@Rettilos Yeah at least they kept their sense of humor 🤣 Though I doubt Uranus translates the same in Russian, I'd like to think it does.
@@dzd2371 so my Russian is no good. But the Germans referred to this maneuver as the “buttenpluggenz”
@@johnyoung4163 🤣
@@dzd2371 хахаха )) да.. I think someone in charge had known English , don’t want to believe it is a coincidence… anus in russian sounds and means the same
Years ago, while working as a lifeguard, one of our regular customers was an elderly German American woman. She was a young girl in Germany during the war. Her brother was in the army.
She told me of the last time he came home on leave before being sent to stalingrad. They never heard from him again.
In the years after the war, the names of soldiers who were released from the soviets would be read over the radio. Her mother would stay by the radio and cry for hours, hoping to hear her sons name. They never learned what happened to him whether he was killed in the fighting or in the prisoner camps afterwards.
Hey, the A10 Warthog could be an interesting video for Megaprojects, just saying, great engineering on it, massive gun, depleted uranium ammunition, also the sound it makes while shooting is iconic
I wonder if the plane was designed to fit the gun or the other way round
@@darthdooku6246 I’d say plane around the gun, they’ve probably developed this massive weapon but couldn’t use in any existing plane (aside perhaps the AC130) effectively
@@marcos340loko I was an aircraft fuel systems mechanic back in the day and worked on A10s when they first came out of prototype and were assigned to squadrons. They are amazing planes!
Perhaps a great follow up to the Warthog video would be the health ramifications on soldiers and civilian populations from the use Depleted Uranium ammunition?
"Do not count days, do not count miles, count only the number of Germans you have killed” - Soviet journalist Ilya Ehrenburg
Dude you have so many awesome channels! Unreal the amount of content you can produce, keep it up!!
Nice. I had been following both TIK and Indie Niedell in their WWII series, at the moment also looking at Stalingrad. I have Stalingrad up to here, and still can not get enough of it.
Simon, great job! Your new megaprojects gig should be similar to this Stalingrad segment. You will of course have to come up with a new name for it. You can cover from things like the Civil War, Vietnam, WWI, WWII, Soviet Afghanistan/US Afghanistan, or any conflict worldwide. Sort of like offense/defense. You can use for example why was the US not allowed to bomb Hanoi during Vietnam, but wasn't later until Nixon came onboard. However, what was the strategic point if any taking Hanoi. This is an example program.
I would add that Zhukov had planned the counteroffensive from the start of the siege and that he said the city just had to hold on long enough so things were ready for attacking the weakened flanks
I'd say technically Stalingrad isn't a seige. Linengrad was, but not Stalingrad. They always help a side and they made it into the city.
Can't wait for this to be in a business blaze under the definition " Send enough bodies and eventually the enemy runs out of bullets"
Djugashvili, please. Let's not honor a megalomaniacal madman's adolescent fantasy of renaming himself Joe Steel.
Most brutal battle of WWII. Damoi Pavlov and Kurgan Mamayev Historic
Building of Pavlov. Not "damoi". Speak English, please. Don't take ridiculous loanings
A "siege" is when the target is cut off from the outside world. Stalingrad never was surrounded.
Have you done a video about the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer located on the International Space Station? It was supposed to be one of the most important instruments installed on the ISS. However, it almost didn't make it up there because the guy in charge of the space shuttle missions said there wasn't enough room. It's a great story of how it was made, what it does, and how it got up there. Thank you for all the amazing stories.
"Operation Uranus called for 2 powerful thrusts"
OK, now have Brain Blaze Simon read the same thing.
He should do a megaprojects video about the SpaceX Starship, maybe after Booster 4 Ship 20 (first orbital flight) in a month or two? I think the largest rocket ever built and the first entirely reusable rocket would count as a mega project.
We have to see if it works first
It probably will blow up, my bet is on reentry. Elon mentioned he is unsure about if the tps system on the flap joints will work, considering Elon is rather optimistic I don't have too high of hopes. Either way I think it still deserves a megaprojects video more than some videos on this channel and I think there would be enough to talk about considering you could easily make an hour long video on the raptor engine alone.
It's megaprojects, not megashitprojects
@@uberbob8389 time will tell mate , but yeah those raptor engines are a piece of work like
Defending Stalingrad was a Megaproject. So was the efforts to resupply Stalingrad, which was a nightmare for the Russians as well. And Operation Barbarossa was also a Megaproject.
There is also the time a German commander during Operation Barbarossa was captured by the Russians, who repeatedly ordered supply drops for his troops - but the drops were actually delivered to Soviet forces.
Ooh time for that sweet sweet fix...
Dropping these Cold War projects again
The A10 and the Bradley IFV.
Or more Ancient Rome, the ramp/siege of Masada
Hitler's strategy for the region was doomed once he split his Army Group South into two, sent part to the Caucasus and part to Stalingrad. Thus, they were never in a position to mutually support one another should the worst happen.
The worst happened.
It wasnt only the oil fields of the Caucasus, it was also the railroad route going from British-Soviet controlled Iran all the way to Stalingrad and the rest of Soviet Russia. It was an alternative route, the other one was the perilous maritime route through the Northern Sea, it was a tricky route due to the Kriegsmarine wolfpacks sinking the allied shipping to the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk.
The Russians suffered *terribly* in this siege.
Fortunately, the Brits kept them able to hang on with the Arctic Convoys to Murmansk.
*That* kind of cooperation is why Russia and the West *should be* best friends now!
Yeah... whoopie. It's a shame Stalin and his regime were pretty much just as bad as the Nazi's in terms of crimes against humanity.
Cold War, Berlin Blockade, Cuba, Afghanistan, and now...Ukraine!!!
In this same vein, I think a rundown of the siege of Leningrad would also fit quite well, there's a lot to cover there too.
"Operation uranus called for two powerful thrusts" huehuehue
Good video, Simon.
However, there's one error: The Germans did not have 600.000 vehicles available.
They could only DREAM of such numbers!
Yes, they had trucks, but NOT as much as they wanted/needed. About a few thousand. To make things worse, most of those trucks were not German-made, but captured from the French, during their campaingn there. But these trucks were far from reliable and so, they were forced to use horses, wich was of course terrible for their militairy operations in the Soviet-Union.
i mean
the defense of stalingrad is truly a project
Definitions be damned!! This was an excellent installment of Megaprojects. 🏆
The not a step back part mentioned was not accurate. Stalin wrote an essay to military command as to why it should be implemented.
Both of my grandfathers were in Stalingrad during WW2, one was a pilot for the Luftwaffe, and the other just standard infantry in the Wehrmacht. The one in the Luftwaffe once told me that it was so cold in parts that the Diesel became jelly and they had to heat it up somehow before they were able to fly. Both of them were captured by the Soviets and both managed to flee and get back to West Germany at the end of the war.
all truckers face the same problem in the middle of winter
I spoke to a German survivor of Stalingrad, and he told me how they were eating the bodies of the dead. Not quite as glamorous as you make it.
I spoke to Elvis and he said peanut butter and banana sandwiches were overrated.
@@tornfrayed4977 thank you 😂
This is a MegaProject that maybe we should consider taking up again someday
"My father was a musician in Stalingrad. During the German occupation the sound of his violin filled the air with beautiful music to the people it was a symbol of hope. But to the Nazis it was a symbol of defiance. They slit his throat as he slept... " -Viktor Reznov to Alex Mason
Simon, you're worrying too much about whether or not your videos neatly fall within whatever criteria makes something a megaproject. We don't care, the bald bearded bespectacled British man is talking, we're listening. You could read a phone book and call it a Megaproject, for all we care.
11:58 "...they had failed to properly reinforce their flanks."
OPERATION URANUS
LMAO
Actually I disagree. Defence on this scale is the very definition of a mega project. The D-day landings would fall into a similar vein because of the sheer level of organisation and logistics required.
The seige of Constantinople by the Ottomans makes Stalingrad like a holiday cruise to Mexico
I can very very much recommend Dan Carlin's Ghosts of the Ostfront. Really incredible series
Battles like this and Verdun are literally WH40k battles in the real world
If only GW knew how to count
Stalingrad is an awesome German film well worth a watch. 10/10
Yeah. Pretty much the most depressing film in existence, but a masterpiece
I'd highly recommend the book "Stalingrad" by UK historian Anthony Beevor if you want to learn more about this
Agreed. Very readable...not a dense academic tome... I know he has his critics but for us amateurs I think his books are excellent. Berlin-The Downfall is I think his best work.
agreed!
I so often get Stalingrad and Leningrad confused. Both are about as close as one can get to Hell.
Actually, Order #227 was rarely enforced, and most Soviet civilians and soldiers greeted it with apathy or joy. They considered it a good morale boost.
Operation Uranus called for two powerful thrusts... had Simon been in blaze mode that could have turned into a 3 minute tangent with 5 different vintage memes! Just more proof that fact boy is a professional!
Excellent, Simon. Thank you.
Well the battle of Stalingrad wasn’t so much a siege as a continual depraved dive into the deepest crevasses of human depravity. The Germans and Russians dived right into the meat grinder at the tractor factory, the Volga banks etc., so it wasn’t even a real siege in the classical sense.
The Red Army at Stalingrad was heroic.
they always overlook the fact the Battle of Stalingrad was to keep the Germans not seeing the build-up for Operation Uranus and Mars.
It must be said that the molotov-ribbentrop pact came of desperation and necessity as France and UK practically refused offers of alliance from the USSR against nazi Germany. The attack came as a surprise because Stalin didn't expect Germany to attack before the UK fell, that was the mistake.
No. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a result of greed and Soviet foolishness.
Вечная память героям! 😢
Eternal memory to heroes!
Remember Hitler's last message to Paulus the commander of 6th army. "Surrender is forbidden, stop. Sixth army is to hold its position till the last round and the last man and make (memory not as great about the following) a decisive contribution to the survival of the western world, stop" . Paulus is promoted to field marshal in these dire moments and Hitler assumed he would commit suicide or die fighting. Instead, he surrendered.
My grandfather fought at Stalingrad, on the Soviet side. He survived the war.
The Russian Winter is always cited as a major factor as to why Barbarossa had failed, however what is said less seldom is the marshy sludge that the country turns into during the rainy season. German tanks were getting stuck and having their movement impeded by a terrain that made any kind of movement only doable with great effort.
Had it not been for the awful conditions in the autumn, the Russian Winter might have showed up too late to assist the Soviets in the fight against Hitler.
Operation Uranus called for two powerful thrusts?
Simon, I think I can actually hear your script writer laughing.
Yet another great video Simon . You should do one on the raid of san nazaire
I was there back in 42, in my 50s now, good to see people still paying attention
you were there in 1942 and you're in your 50s now??? Did you make a typing mistake or just a liar
@@lazyishardwork 😎
Check TIK series on Stalingrad. Will prove some of the myths repeated here wrong. Other than that it’s a quick summary focused on spectacular details.
Wait there myths in this video? Shame, expected more from Simon
Bald and bankrupt and this channel are binged. Watching from Scotland peace and love to all
You should just call this channel “All Things Mega” or just “Mega”.
Barbarossa and the siege of Stalingrad failed in part because of logistics. Germany was behind Britain and France in motorization, and overwhelming priority was assigned to producing tanks and other fighting vehicles. Thus during the Barbarossa, the German armies only had 6000 trucks and other vehicles for moving cargo, so most goods were carried by horse-drawn contraptions.
You see, I found out that the kill bots have a pre-programmed maximum kill counter. With that in mind, I sent waves and waves of my own men at them and easily secured victory!
Right, men?
You suck!
Excellent topic, thanks! Please consider a similar topic, the Defense of Leningrad, another truly epic story.
The fate of the sixth army at Stalingrad and the long siege saved much of Army Group South giving them time to flee the Caucasus.
If the siege of Stalingrad was not a megaproject, I really don't know what is
"We have been shooting for over 7 hours non stop, there is russian bodies for miles and miles, Our guns are overheating but they just wont stop coming"
- German soldier Stalingrad 1943
😢
An actual mega project you should do is the Gardiner Dam in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is one of the largest earth filled dams in the world
“The death of a friend is a tragedy ,the death of million people is a statistic “ : comrade Stalin .
Excellent and very well prepared video. The more I study WW2 I am appalled at such barbarism especially from the German side . I do hope the young Germans are today asking questions about their own family's involvement?
You could do a Megaprojects video about the Bismarck *and* the subsequent hunt for it
Why is it when I hear “Stalingrad” I hear Bob Hoskins as Nikita Kruschev utter it gravelly
Because the latter is not a moron or unscrupulous one.
Let’s not forget that at Stalingrad, German armored units were low on fuel, and the infantry... Well to quote Band of Brothers, “Say hello to Ford and General Motors! You have horses! What the fuck were you thinking!”
Simon cover the Hone Bridge and/or Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee, WI please. It's got an interesting history.
Great Uranus puns.
The "recently released high school students", mostly young girls who fought in the 1077th is mentioned in Studs Terkel's Pulitzer Price winning book, "The Good War". There, one of the girls in the battalion describes her role in that battle from her personal perspective.
watching this after months and months of fighting for Bachmut AND being a German...
To simply quote Marty McFly: I know this, this is a classic!
Lets see what we will tell about Bachmut in 10 years or so.
Also, believe it or not, my Grandfather was part of Operation Barbarossa. AND managed to escape from being captured.
He fled over the ocean to Italy and from there he simply walked back to the Ruhrgebiet. He was picked up by Allied soldiers, they checked his papers, cut his hair (fleas, lice) and with a pat on his back he was home.
Is there a megaproject about the raising of Chicago? In the 1860's and 1870's they changed the elevation of the city. Literally jacking up the existing buildings.
It was was Sideproject. He did it 9 months ago
It's not a Soviet Megaproject unless Simon takes us on a trip to the Gulag