• Tja
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    4 months ago

    Wikipedia literally quotes Soviet archives. If that is center right, I’m curious to know what is left.

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      4 months ago

      Okay, then go find other sources for these numbers:

      • Number of axis troops invading France

      • Number of French and British commonwealth troops during the initial defense of France

      • Number of axis troops invading the Soviet Union

      • Number of Soviet troops during the initial defense of the Soviet Union

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        4 months ago

        I suspect that anything right of the Soviet archives won’t be good enough for you. And even those are embarrassing.

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          The point of this exercise is for you to find the numbers and experience a moment of self reflection. What I think of the credibility of the numbers doesn’t matter.

          You won’t though. One has to wonder why?

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            I already did, first back in school and latest yesterday to check what sources the wiki used. Somehow the numbers haven’t changed in all those years.

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              And you think the numerically inferior soviet troops -who did better than the larger more mechanized and better equipped French and British troops- while also fighting a larger better equipped force demonstrates…

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                    The soviets lost more than half of the total population of France, so hard to call it better.