We have repeatedly returned to the questions of the outbreak of World War II and the way in which Muscovy has been blinded by its own version of its causes and course, which differ significantly both from the world view and from the actual data. Nevertheless, these tales are taken as a basis and now, and the Russian public still believes in this nonsense.
But right now, in the Russian part of the network, you can find a lot of information that, although not exactly, but shows some aspects of the past war, in a more or less objective form. For example, unlike the already dogmatic mathematics of the forces and resources of the Red Army and Wehrmacht on June 22, 1941, the Russians are already broadcasting not canonical decompositions, albeit without comment or binding to enemy forces and means. So, for their domestic consumption, they write about the following:.
"By the beginning of the war, the Red Army in the border districts had a population of about 2.7 million. Man, 1,475 new heavy and medium tanks (total was about 12 thousand. ), 1540 aircraft of new designs (there were about 10 thousand. To fully re-equip the army it took another 1-2 years ".
In this quote, everything is fine. The number of personnel, and especially of technology, exceeds all that the Wehrmacht managed to assemble. And, scathing charlatans from history, certainly add here the troops of Romania, Hungary and other countries. However, they do not specify when exactly these troops were ready to join their allies and when they actually did.
In fact, the Allied troops by June 22 were in places of permanent deployment and had not the fact that their plan of action against the scoop, but did not even have an approximate date of the beginning of the invasion. They began to connect to the fighting only a week or two, or even a month later. This is easily seen from the configuration of the front line in the initial period of combat operations. The southern flank practically tramped in place, while to the north, the Wehrmacht troops had already left the border for dozens of kilometers. This is because the Romanian troops were not ready to move forward, and the German troops were linked by interaction plans, of which Antonescu only knew in general terms.
Nevertheless, Russians deliberately or not, but fell asleep at the collar memoirist Zhukov and his followers in the face of the odious General Gareyev, who cleaned the history of the war right up to the line of the party and government. So there they no longer stop to enumerate the "new heavy and medium tanks" in the number of one and a half thousand pieces, which the Wehrmacht simply did not have, and give an approximate number of all tanks (about 12 thousand. ), Which is also far from the true figures.
In short, there are pieces of information for which you could go to the clinic for long-term treatment with haloperidol. But to reduce all this to one simple conclusion that the Wehrmacht was not something that had no advantage over the Red Army, but also lost in all key positions, they do not dare to do it now. If we agree with the fact that the scoop had enough strength and money for a successful defense, then there will be several questions about who should be slapped for dullness and curvature. And in this list will be someone Zhukov, Shaposhnikov and Dzhugashvili. It was they who should be shot on the second or third day of the war, but it is these people in Russia who are proud to be proud of.
However, we are interested in a slightly different aspect of the initial stage of the Soviet-German war. Now it is not a secret for anybody that the scoop planned the seizure of Europe. Strictly speaking, before the beginning of this particular piece of war, such a secret did not exist either. Party leaders spoke openly about this, they broadcast films and newspapers, specific songs. Then all this was swept under the carpet, but now everything has returned to its place.
For this reason, almost the entire cadre army stood along the western border and therefore all strategic reserves were put forward there. Immediately behind all this, two echelons of troops were already forming from the reservists, but close to the first echelon, there were all the railway troops ready to change the narrow European track to a wide scoop. By the way, about the railway. Before June 22, it was completely clogged with echelons of the personnel of the second echelon. Their full-time equipment was already at the border and as soon as the first echelon would have rushed to Europe, the second one would have reached the places of storage of equipment and ammunition, would quickly accept all the iron and would have followed. That is why the railway was completely overloaded. This is a key moment.
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