Great Patriotic War (USSR in World War II)

So now German invader losses on the eastern front are German women and children murdered by nasty Soviets.  OK.  Good to
know that the brain rot in the west is terminal.

BTW, SS keep on pissing on this forum.  You only prove you are an imbecile.

https://ria.ru/20201205/vov-1587768488.html

But there were still a lot of other NKVD troops guarding the GULAG that could be used in combat instead.

Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: The Northern Fleet began hostilities on June 17, 1941 https://regnum.ru/news/polit/3134461.html

What prevented the Japanese from attacking the USSR in 1941 https://regnum.ru/news/polit/3134762.html

Even if this amounts to a movie analysis, there is a critical detail in it. Hitler loses his grip when he realizes
the full picture of failure to muster armies to stop the Red Army advance on Berlin. In the movie they have him
rant that he should have purged the army ranks like Stalin.

The revisionist narrative we have on Stalin's purge is that it weakened the Soviet Union's ability to fight the Nazis.
This narrative is total BS. The Soviet army of the 1930s was infested with spies and actual traitors. You can
thank Trotsky's Bolshies for that. (Lenin as they say in Russia was a "chuchilo" or straw man.) One of the reasons
that the Nazis were cocky about taking on the USSR was that they thought that all sorts of dissidents would come
out of the woodwork to support the invaders. This was actually true in Ukraine and a lot of the USSR borderlands
but it was never true for Russians. So Hitler may as well have made such a rant since Stalin's purge did clean
up the Red Army and ensured a functional chain of command.

Part of the Stalin "the loser" narrative includes claiming he was "surprised" by the German attack. This is total
rubbish since the USSR was preparing for war full tilt since after 1939. This preparation increased its war capacity
by 40%. The other part of this revisionism is to claim that Stalin squandered soldiers. This is done by engaging
in BS accounting. So the 3.3 Soviet POWs who died in the hands of the Nazis are counted as effective KIA.
At the same time all the German allies such as Hungary, Romania, Italy and many others who lost over 2 million
on the eastern front are not counted and we have an inane comparison of German losses with Soviet losses.
About 20% of the German POWs died in Soviet captivity which is nowhere near 3.3 million.

The initial success of the Nazis on the eastern front is not proof that the USSR was unprepared. The USSR started
from the conditions of an agrarian state and was industrializing through the 1930s. Germany was much better prepared
in terms of industrial war and had US and UK financing and direct industrial support from western corporations to
lubricate their military build up. The fact that the USSR managed to stop the Nazis is a type of miracle. And
that includes losing 18 million civilians since such enormous losses did not break the country psychologically. Again,
the USSR did not butcher German civilians on the scale that the Nazis murdered Soviet civilians.

Another question that begs to be asked is why the western allies did not rush to save German from the Soviets.
The answer to this includes not coming out of the closet and owning Hitler's failure. But it is also due to the
fact that in 1945 the Red Army could not be rolled back and so there was no point in trying. It looks a lot like
the plan was for the "rotten Soviet facade" to collapse but that never worked out so Germany was thrown under
the bus by its "pals". This smacks of the present day situation where the NATO west acts as if Russia will crumble
under sanctions and their saber rattling.

1 German said that if Hitler didn't try to take Stalingrad, Germany would have won. Could it really happen?