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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sylvester80 who wrote (420711)	6/30/2003 10:25:41 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

WWII is a fascinating subject. You should really study it someday. The heroic Russian resistance to the Wehrmacht is documented history. It was also an abject failure right up to mid-1943, as the German technology was trumping the millions of poorly-trained human bodies that the Russians were able to throw at it. What Americans found was that the socialists could efficiently build a few things they needed: Tanks, guns, boots, rifles, etc. using their slave labor, but that they couldn't produce the sophisticated mobile warfore units needed survive on the field against the Wehrmacht. Offensives petered out before being decisive, and retreats resulted in the Germans accumulating the thousands of guns, tanks, etc. that the Russians had produced. The Germans beat themselves to a great extent by capturing, rather than liberating the Baltics, the Ukraine, and the Caucaus states. These captive nations turned into vast areas of resistance rather than allies. Then, 18 months after Pearl Harbor, the delivery of tens of thousands of trucks, planes, and-most important-two-way radio equipment allowed the Red Army to create units that could hold their own against the Panzer and Panzergrennadiers (provided the Russians maintained numerical superiority). The Russians began to advance toward Germany only when the West finally was able to give them the werewithal to move their massive army forward, and still keep it an army rather than a hopeless mob. Thus the Germans were forced to keep 80% of their army in Russia, and the war ended years early, in 1945. The rest, as they say, is history...