As someone from the west, this is my favorite WWII documentary of all time. No BS and straight and to the point with the perfect amount of information, not to much to overwhelm the viewer and more than enough to keep them completely hooked.
I agree. This series is amazing. I first saw it on Amazon prime and was majorly bummed out when it was taken down because I enjoy rewatching them Great to see it’s on KRplus
Although I had known that it was the USSR that stopped the Nazis and turned the tide of the war, watching these documentaries deepens my respect and admiration towards the Soviet people for their resilience and sacrifice. The world owes them a huge amount of gratitude.
@@blugaledoh2669 Lend lease amounted to just 4% of the total industrial output of the USSR. Even that came after the most crucial Battle of Moscow which the Soviet Union fought entirely on their own.
@@fordhamdonnington2738 Worth it. All of the ads on YT are shorter and far more sporadic than on TV. Literally 1/3 of the airtime dedicated to any program is commercials. It's ridiculous. The real scumbags are the networks and cable companies. Those assholes actually expect people to pay money to watch commercials (cable). Thankfully, networks are either adapting or dying.
The graphics, the narration, the pasing, the script, the soundtrack, such a well done quality job, it makes best of Western documentaries look like first year student projects.
@@cookedoven first of all, it's like 10 years old and I've might misused the word, I meant how intormative the CGI scenes are. For example, look at how they described the usage of PTAB bombs on the battlefield, it's just perfect.
These "Soviet Storm WW2 in the East" series is among the best I have seen compared to various WWII documentaries. The information provided was just incredible. Just the Best!
Soviet Storm is undoubtedly the most comprehensive, non-partisan and truthful account of the war on the Eastern Front. This theater of war not only decidedly defeated the Nazis but was the direct reason for the establishment of the Great Soviet Union and its place in history as one of the first tier military and political powers that came out of the catastrophe that was World War Two. Without the Eastern Front, the European war with the Allies against Nazi Germany could have possibly resulted in a different outcome.
Different in what sense? You mean, they would have finally successfully invaded England? They would have defeated America? What would be different? Truth is, Nazi Germany had no oil left. They would have lost either way. It was just a matter of time. The only way they ever would have won the war is if they took the Caucasus oil and Ukrainian food. Without that, they lose 100% of the time.
@@signoguns8501 Agreed, but the war would've taken longer and the Allies would've suffered enormous losses because they would had to face 130 German divisions. Without the Eastern Front, the Western front would've been bloody and maybe like the Eastern front.
@@nitrodashgaming445 Maybe. But the nazi's werent all that interested in the west. They wanted peace with the west, not war. They desperately needed to go east though. For the reasons I described. They needed the food and living space for the German population, Slavs for slave labor. Lebensraum. That was the whole point of the war in the first place. It's very difficult to imagine a war without the eastern front. Like trying to imagine boer war outside of south africa. They are intrinsically entwined. WW2 and the eastern front cant exist without each other. It would have been a completely different war. But either way, without oil, theyre not going to be beating anyone, certainly not multiple superpowers.
@@duncanmc797 A lot of people seem to forget that the west only joined the war to protect and aid the Eastern European countries. The nazis did not threaten the west directly. As far as the nazi's were concerned, the war with the west was a battle for supremacy, for domination of the continent, but the war in the East was to ensure the enslavement and extermination of the Slavic ethnicity. Two very different objectives.
It was the most fortified because it was of utmost importance to the Red Army and if it fell then the tide of the war could very well have been shifted back into Germany's favor. There was little sense for Germany to deploy their army anywhere else as then the Red Army would have launched an offensive from the salient and cut off any other German advance. The only other option would have been to just dig in and fight on the defensive but with very extended supply lines and the Soviets' constantly increasing manpower and resources, this was unrealistic. So in many ways, this was a very necessary gamble for the Germans if they didn't want to be pushed out of the Soviet Union.
I have finished this episodes too, and I will keep finishing them all. From the iron stream of Kursk to burning rubble of Berlin, still a long road to go. Let the liberation begin!
@@vagrantwanderer5810 The US? They’ve won a few wars: Revolutionary War (with France’s help), American Civil War, helped the Entente break the deadlock in WWI, helped the Allies again in WW2 (along with major Soviet help in Europe; against Japan it was mainly Western European colonial troops and the US), war against Iraq (with Coalition help), etc.. One note is, many countries win wars with their allies or with foreign aid. In recent history, not many countries win wars by themselves. So US hasn’t won many wars by itself, but with its allies, they can do a lot in war.
@@friedrichs753 The U.S. didn't win a few battles. They Won almost all of them, Revolutionary War (but first..You forgot 1812. The Yanks defeated the British all on our own. ..... France did what France always did.... they stayed out of the War until the Americans won the battle of Saratoga and forced John Burgoyne's entire Army to surrender. In the South it was rough at first but generals/colonels kicked the Brit's ass at Cowpens, Blue Savannah, that one on the Mountain(which eludes me this moment)... King's Mountain. that's what I meant. The French Navy at Yorktown helped... If we didn't have that Navy Helping the war would be won but prolonged maybe Years.
@@johnsmith1474 lolol funny stuff. Truth is, the Roman soldier spent more time constructing stuff than actually fighting - like in the last battle in Gaul where they built not one but two huge encircling walls around the town where Vercingeterix was trapped... or when besieging Masada where they built a gigantic ramp, or in many sieges where they would build on the spot, the siege towers and rock-slingers which were so effective.... and let;s not forget Hadrian's Wall. A big part of the success of Roman armies was their planning and construction - which as Ceasar emphasized, often involved a LOT of digging :-=).
@@altareggo Indeed, Mussolini was to the Italian, like Donald Trump is to the USA. Not much glory there, isn't it? They do have something in common, however, Their people didn't believe their lies.
Humbling to think we get to live out our natural lives and hopefully grow old without having to go through anything like this. I shan't moan about Monday morning and work ever again.
Have you NOT been paying attention to our current reality? No. Just No. War is coming. A war that will make this offensive seem like a neighborhood brawl..."The guns come out, when the grain shipments stop..."
@@YasserMaghribi You're right because there is right now, an economic tidal wave coming that is so massive that if we don't paddle over the top of it we will be submerged under it never to resurface. The start was Covid-19, next is business closures then mass unemployment followed by famine and mass suicides.... not a shot will be fired...
@@richard4short5 look at the Club of Rome and what they said about the population growth and the decline of ressources. Around 2030 more or less, there will be a big decrease of human population and historically there was 3 ways: wars, famines or diseases.
just imagining the gun fire of all those anti tank rifles going off is giving me PTSD......... let alone the tanks, anti aircraft weapons, machine guns, etc.
I live near what was one of the main UK dockyards in WW2, the whole area was heavily bombed - I've heard an audio recording of one of the air raids and the noise level is ridiculous.
I saw a ww2 documentary a few years back that interviewed surviving russian veterans of the battle of Kursk and one of them, a tank commander, said the battle was so loud he couldnt even hear his own crew members speak inside his tank with the hatches closed. The constant shelling and bombing was nonstop and deafening. It drowned every other sound out.
The reason this documentary is so great is because it tries to be unbiased as possible despite being created by the victor. Watch any American WWII documentary, and you'll really appreciate what was done in this one.
And it's free!!! In spite of all the hard work that the creators of this production had put in this amazing documentary, they shared ir for free, that it's something to be thankful with starmedia
It's not completely unbiased... it's deceptive in some places in the way it whitewashes things while seeming to be at a higher intellectual level. For example, the massive Soviet defeat at 3rd Battle of Kharkov in early 1943 (100,000 casualties) seems to not be mentioned in this entire series.... or at least absent a full episode as it deserves. Also it often treats the Germans like alien invaders from Mars who we do do not understand and likes to show them attacking hospital ships, while the Soviets get sad music and slow motion effects whenever they make a heroic sacrifice (note I am basing these observations on the Sevastopol episode which is much more biased in the way it is presented than this Kursk one).
This was the tipping point- after Rokossovsky's successful defense of the salient in the north, the successful defense at Prokhorovka in the south allowed the counteroffensive to begin. Hitler lost his last chance to win the war, outfought and outgeneralled. It was awesome. The Red Army seized the initiative, never to lose it.
Johann Bach The scale of war between Russia and Germany was fought on one front. The rest of the Allies fought around the world on numerous fronts and continents.
Vsatyk So you actually believe the Russian front was larger than the Western European front, African campaign, and the entire Pacific ocean combined? Your map could be defective.
Vsatyk The Pacific war covered hundreds of thousands of square miles and required logistical support details never before seen. Hundreds of ships carrying tens of thousands of men, equipment and all supplies across the largest ocean in the world, to take island after island. The Pacific war was the cruelest war in modern history. The Japanese soldier gave nor wanted any quarter. Some seem to believe everybody just got in a boat and went to an island and fought it out. They don't consider the naval war of aircraft carriers and support ships required to stop Japanese reinforcement. The Japanese Navy was pretty good at their business and were absolute masters of nighttime naval warfare. In the last 6 months of the war, 47 American ships were sunk by kamikazes alone. The Pacific war was on land and sea, where the European war was a land war other than keeping the North Atlantic open for shipping from the US. The Pacific campaign makes Barbarossa pale in comparison. How many ships and heavy bombers did the Russians lose. Oh wait, they didn't have any. How do you win a WORLD WAR WITHOUT bombers and a navy.
Vsatyk Operation Barbarossa like any military operation wasn't a solid line of troops. It was several battles separated by hundreds of miles in-between the groups, just as the Pacific campaign was the taking of several islands at any given time. They might be fighting on several islands simultaneously, not one at a time, all requiring the ships and men to take and hold those islands. The one's you read about are just the famous one's for one reason or another, but there were hundreds of other's you've never heard of. And the American and Japanese had numerous face to face, gun to gun battles when the Japanese would try to destroy the support ships for the landing force. The battle of Layte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history and was definitely face to face.
A really excellent documentary! Western versions of the conflict between Germany and Soviet Union do not have the historical detail of these great videos!! Not diminishing the contributions and sacrifices of the UK and USA, The Soviet Union won the war for the allies with Germany! I am from the US but have a great friend from Minsk. He and I agree the "Cold War" was a manifestation of the US and Soviet Union governments and the media. People from the countries of the former Soviet Union are great and extremely friendly. Thank you to the people of the former Soviet Union for their many sacrifices during WWII!
The Nazis destroyed in USSR 8,000 towns and villages , killing 28 million people, including 17 million civilians. It was the Red Army that had the largest share in the defeat of Nazi Germany. It is terrible that the memory of the generation of great-grandfathers who experienced the terrible WW2 is changed by the generation of their great-grandchildren, who form their opinions about this bloody war according to the scenarios of stupid movies produced by the dream and lie factory - Holywood. You can see and read: www.les-crises.fr/the-successful-70-year-campaign-to-convince-people-the-usa-and-not-the-ussr-beat-hitler/ It is tragic and unbelievable, but in today's Europe there is a tendency to celebrate murderers and forget about their victims. That is why the Russian tradition of the "immortal regiment" is very, very important.
Without the allies USA UK CANADA Germany would of defeated the Soviet Union millions of men thousands of planes tanks were on the western front imagine all these men moved to the eastern front Russians would of been annihilated
@@jakecarson4587 - well we can talk about hypotheticals all day. The fact remains the Soviets crushed the Germans. Hitler and his "cronies" were mad men and took the good German people down with them!
Imagine If the Nazi's were able to supplement the western front with just an 80 000 troops. That would've been disastrous for the US and British landings at Normandy and Italy
The objectivity of this series rates it my highest accolade. Let that be said of episodes 1-8 inclusive as well, and I anxiously await enjoying episode 10.
The fact that civilians dug and built all those defensive lines and kill zones is awe inspiring. Kursk stalingrad were 2 of the greatest battles in history. Russia standing firm on the river Volga is one of the great defensive stands.
Yep, 2 or 3 generations of Hitler's former boy scouts and Hitler's youth are still fertilizing Eastern Europe and the Stepps of Mother Russia with their sweat, tears, flesh blood and bones and will do so for a thousand years just like Adolph Hitler promised them.
From 16:51 to 17:50 , the battle is intense, both sides firing at each other intensely, truly, decided that this war was the most decisive war, it's true, something unimaginable happened which changed the course of war Meanwhile the background music always gives me the chills Really an epic , masterful and unbiased documentary with good and detailed computer graphics
@@unclesam7702 i don't agree with you. On my point of view, Rokossovsky was best general. My great-grandfather (Stalingrad battle veteran) always said that he was genius
@@user-wz5ry7tm7e But isn't it true that Gen. Zhukov had the responsibility of entire fronts while Rokossovsky was his subordinate? Zhukov faced failures such as Rzhev debacle but he was able to turn the tide on the enemy.
@@kishanchali8752 Yep, at the beginning Rokossovsky was under Zhukov, but sooner he became Frontline commander. (front means group of army, but in USSR group of army is not same as Germans. Germans group of army actually group of fronts) Rokossovsky's first front was "Don" front, fighting under Stalingrad, participated in "Uran" operation. Soon his front were renamed to "Central" front, he defended North part of Kursk bludge. After Kursk battle his front were renamed again to "First Belarusian" front. With this front and with other generals as you may know he annihilated Germans Group of Army Center. (Soon First Belarusian was given to Zhukov, that was on my point of view political moment) What about Zhukov? Of course he is hero. He a bit cruel, but he never killed citizens, Rzhev battle was terrible, and definitely his greatest defeat. Thus, I like Rokossovsky as general more. As I said before my great-grandfather always said that he is excellent general
@@vandamme7084 Also the anti - tank guns firing at tanks, the artillery firing at trenches and tanks, the fighters having dogfights above, the hand to hand combat, tanks engaging other tanks, bombers raining literal hell on the frontlines, rocket launchers giving hell to germans and many more.
Actually, Hitler was rather nervous about Citadel, famously remarking "Every time I think about Operation: Citadel, my stomach turns." His generals, however, pompously assumed they could win and convinced him to give them the go-ahead--something they denied later, insisting that all the stupid moves they made were Hitler's ideas.
Funny enough it was Guderian that changed Hitler’s mind. Guderian was smart enough to survive the war and paint him as the smartest general in the German Army
@@TheNorthie Same with Manstein. Their respective memoirs had these three themes: 1) All the failures were Hitler's fault. 2) All atrocities were restricted to the SS and the Einsatzgruppen. 3) They knew nothing of the Holocaust. All nonsense, of course. Both men should have been hanged--the Poles and the Soviets even demanded Guderian's death, but the Western Allies would have none of it.
All I have to go by is my grandpa's words, "If it hadn't been for that madman Hitler, Germany might have won the war. Germany had better equipment, better generals, and a highly professional military. "
@@shannonmccullough8324 Nah, Germany was NEVER going to win. Check out Potential History's videos on the subject. Barbarossa was particularly badly planned. They relied more on horses than tanks and trucks, but German propaganda deliberated steered away from this to make their forces look better; the generals tended to be just as arrogant, racist, and sometimes downright idiotic as Hitler; and there was too much squabbling amongst the military branches that was only barely suppressed by, ironically, Hitler's bullying.
@@pyromania1018 Barbarossa was actually wasn't that badly planned, it might have at at least its aim of taking Moscow if Hitler had not ordered guderian to move toward Kiev and hoth to assist Army Group North. If Germany was much better equipped and Hitler wouldn't have intervened then for sure Barbarossa would be a success, before giving your comment dont only look on potential history but also look on other channels and read books written by soviet military historians, dont be delusional. There were some generals responsible for the holocaust and other war crimes but those generals were much better strategist in their era(eg. manstein and guderian).They were the main advocativist of blitzkrieg , which was so successful in the early years of the war, it was even successful during operation Barbarossa but it was all ruined when Hitler ordered his panzer groups to assist army group south and north rather than taking Moscow when they had the opportunity.
Because they the Russians exactly what the Germans were doing.. anyone can win then. The enigma was cracked and all planning that the Germans made (that was available) was send to the Soviets so they could prepare the in-depth defenses they made (which is nearly impossible to completely crack). They only won due to enigma being cracked & their carelessness for Russian lives, just throwing non-stop men at the enemy.
@@CFbastar yes, I'm well aware of that anti-Russian western bias. Trust me, no propaganda is good enough for all of us, not even, American and/or Chinese propaganda. We'd live by our own propaganda standards of our home countries, wouldn't we? After all, I was born and raised in Spain, so there's always been a load of Western (mainly American and/or British) propaganda since the beginning of time.
@@pma281 Im talking about the fact that its russian made, the english translation contains anti-russian propaganda good thing its subtle tho and in acceptable quantities
The men that crawled into those stifling hot metal coffins willingly and with balls of the same steel, have my admiration and respect, the bravery it took knowing that you're most likely going to die and do it with vigor and honor, what men these were.
Napoleon Bonaparte learned, the Russians burned everything behind them and sucked in the French troops deeper in Russia. The Russians were just waiting for the winter. Only the Mongols were successful in Russia.
@@yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907 you are right. I read Zhukov's memoirs, there Zhukov described Stalin's appearance when he was angry. "It was scary to look at him. The eyes shot with lightning, the face became pale."
1943: Germans wait for new tanks to attack while the Soviets build defensive lines and minefields. About air parity but after the battle the Soviets gain superiority. 2023: The Ukrainians wait for western tanks while the Russians do the same as the Soviets. Ukrainian airforce is negligible, but they have drones and missiles. Russia uses drones, helicopters, air-launched glide bombs and ATGMs. Quite the parallels. Anyone else got some other differences/similarities between the offensives?
@@Historyguy-xu5ht Did you learn that from watching Hollywood movies and anti-Soviet propaganda? K/D ratio was something like 1 German to 1.9 Soviet soldiers, but this does not take into account Axis soldiers like the Romanians, Italians and others so the real K/D is closer to 1 to 1.3 or something like that, i am going off memory so i might be wrong by +/- 0.1.
@@user-dp4ok9ox5w i am still wonder. West people have better life conditions, but still easy "target of propaganda". Our Schools (from post-Soviet countries) have great history education systems. They describes and explains all reasons. They never saying that "Stalin good man, Hitler bad man. Or Putin/Nazarbayev/Lukashenko top, others poor", no, schools attempt to describe both advantages and disadvantages of certain things. For example, Stalin's political movements killed a lot of people, but it dramatically developed manufacture systems in Kazakhstan. Hitler killed a lot of people, he was mad, but he improved economy.
@@user-wz5ry7tm7e I mean it is easy to just Google the killed to death ratio, but people are just too lazy and want to believe what they saw in movies instead of using their own brains...or worse they count the civilian casualties into the mix. Not even to mention that the Axis forces had often superior or comparable numbers in many battles especially during the first two years of the wars.
A fantastic story of courage sheer grit and love of country by the Russia’s it is sad that they were let down by sometimes dubious decisions a valuable lesson to modern soldiers very well described and presented thank you a former soldier
Because they the Russians exactly what the Germans were doing.. anyone can win then. The enigma was cracked and all planning that the Germans made (that was available) was send to the Soviets so they could prepare the in-depth defenses they made (which is nearly impossible to completely crack). They only won due to enigma being cracked & their carelessness for Russian lives, just throwing non-stop men at the enemy.
@@rohitmishra9517 I did not talk about Soviet Union power in progress, I spoke about the battle of Kursk. The Russians knew exactly from which point - and how many - Germans would come from where. Because they got classified information from the British since the German ENIGMA was cracked. If the Russians did not know where they would attack, Kursk would have been a German victory (as it almost was until Hitler called off the attack).
I'am russia, and i'm very moved when i listen story of my ancestors. My great grandfather die in world war II, and my second great grandfather became a colonel during the war and by some miracle he did not die!
Tom Grisak yes, but the Americans captured the first German city during the war ( Aachen) and Britain than captured Hamburg. Berlin was easy to take for the Soviets because the USA 🇺🇸 and Britain 🇬🇧 had already bombed the city for a straight 14 days and the majority of its population was Evacuated.
Tom Grisak Russia 🇷🇺 has a negative K.D. With Germany 🇩🇪, because we actually lost less men, tanks and aircraft and for every German soldier killed 8 Soviets died and that is true. The Americans and British captured German territory much much faster than the Soviets did.
Tom Grisak Germany 🇩🇪 is a very rich nation now in fact we have the largest economy in Europe, while Russia 🇷🇺 has an economy less than Canada’s 🇨🇦 . Russia 🇷🇺 has a negative KD and lost 8 times more men than Germany 🇩🇪 did. I’ll give it the Russians their good at dying a lot, but in reality the USA 🇺🇸 captured the first German city ( Aachen) and Britain 🇬🇧 captured the second city. Russians also only act like Germany was fighting them, when in reality we had men in Africa, France,Italy, Belgium etc and D-Day was very large part in why Germany lost as well as American and British bombers that destroyed 75 percent of Berlin’s infrastructure before the Soviets invaded. The Russians didn’t do it by themselves, don’t forget the 5 million Ukrainians that died in the Red army and Latvians, Kazakhstan etc
You are in rare category. Most young people everywhere do not want to be bothered with these memories. My tour guides in Russia were annoyed every time I asked WW2 question.
Because the Russians knew exactly what the Germans were doing, anyone can win then. The enigma was cracked and all planning that the Germans made (that was available) was send to the Soviets so they could prepare the in-depth defenses they made (which is nearly impossible to completely crack). They only won due to enigma being cracked & their carelessness for Russian lives, just throwing non-stop men at the enemy. Zhukov also PERSONALLY stated that without the US/British aid in aid they would have lost the war.
It's not particularly authentic, and pretty completely lacking in insight. It's just a list of stuff and completely weak description. Not even useful as a description except for some mapwork, which is basic stuff better presented in dozens of books.
Because the Russians knew exactly what the Germans were doing, anyone can win then. The enigma was cracked and all planning that the Germans made (that was available) was send to the Soviets so they could prepare the in-depth defenses they made (which is nearly impossible to completely crack). They only won due to enigma being cracked & their carelessness for Russian lives, just throwing non-stop men at the enemy.
The whole Kursk operation was primarily Rakasovski's idea and supported by Jukov. Vatutin and the general staff were asking to attack. The creation of the reserve front was also his idea. He also asked to be given command of both nothern and southern fronts but stalin agrred to everything else but that. Instead, he put Jukov as the overall coordinator of all three fronts. Rakasovski also put his defenses differently as explained in the video. He learned this and tried it in the battle of moskov in conjuction with his division commander Panfilov. Vatutin put his diffense as one long line like in ww1 and thats why all his defenses got broken as well as he used up all the reserve front. Rakasovski was not even given any extra man from the reserve. After this Stalin would consider Rakasovski one of his best Marshals almost equal to Jukov.
Rotminstrov had around 700 tanks (550 of his own, that belonged to 5th Guard Tank Army, and additional 150 tanks of gen. Zhadov's 5th Guard Infantry Army, and in total Rotminstrov loses at Prokhorovka were 395 tanks. However, of these 395 tanks 190 were made ready for the battle again in terms of 2 days. The loses of three German tank divisions were not less than 300 tanks (Panzers and Tigers) and they were not possible to be repaired. Thus, the net soviet loses at Prokhorovka were somewhere between 205 and 210, tanks, while Germans lost 300 tanks. It was a clear victory of Russians !!!
You're dreaming. You can't know any of the correct tank totals because both sides are epic liars. Beyond that, the real battle was in the skies over Kursk. That's what decided the fight. The Red air force destroyed the Luftwaffe. The latter ran out of avgas -- so the Reds shot it to pieces on the ground. There are more than a few Russian pilot diaries that attest to this totally lop-sided out-come. The Reds showed up -- and the Germans were found just sitting on the ground... waiting to be gassed up. Well, it was too late.
Excellent film. A few comments: the Germans had no where near the amount of Tigers and Ferdinands depicted. EG - the SS PZ Divs had a company each of Tigers. There were two (IIRC) additional battlions as well. Most if not all of the Panthers (Pz V) were attached in brigade strength to PZ Div "Grossdeutchland" and their's was an inauspicious debut - they had major "teething problems", sometimes catching fire, and they ran right into a minefield first thing. It might be said that those 200 Panthers contributed little to the attack and only on the Southern front. The Soviets launched a massive pre-emptive air attack but it was intercepted. The artillery strike was more successful and was rather a classic in pre-emptive fire. Never again, would the Germans collect a panzer reserve strong enough to matter against the Soviets. That's why the battle of the bulge was conducted against the Americans - Fritz simply wasn't strong enough to make a decisive difference in the east - not after the "Ten Blows" that followed Kursk.
As a side note: the Panthers were a no-show because -- in freak weather -- the Panthers were mudded in by a night's downpour. They'd been parked in a dry gully -- that got very, very wet. A flash flood, in fact. So they missed the battle -- almost entirely. That's why you just don't read about GD during Kursk. The Panthers only suffered two or three engine fires. That's all. Yet, for the purposes of a narrative, the Krauts shifted the mud fiasco out of the tale and dropped in the 'factory problem.' In so doing, they hid the stupidities of the panzer commanders. They should've raced to their machines when the rains came. But, for the most part, they were asleep ! Yup. Without its Panthers, the GD was not going anywhere. You are correct about the Tigers. The typical Tiger company was tromping around with a mere ten-machines -- often less. They were repair hogs. Their running gear needed a LOT of work -- and the dust of Kursk was no help. The rotten fuel used meant constant spark plug swaps, too.
It is worth noting that German planning for this folly was totally unimaginative due to Hitler's growing control of German planning. The whole tactical plan was based entirely on the dogma of German superiority of men and weaponry overcoming dug in Soviet numerical superiority. Totally unlike the succesful German Army leadership of 1940, 41, and the first part of 43 which was was about maneuver, surprise, and flexibility in their thinking. The Russians played this battle exactly right and capitalized on the arrogance of the Nazis. (with the exception of the suicidal counter attacks).
Even those suicidal counter attacks were necessary. It's hard to predict when to counter-attack. But those attacks did blunt the German forces even more. And the attack on Prokhorovka was on the same day as Operation Kutuzov started.
NO. The USA saved the world. Bolshevism IS fascistic, itself. The difference between Stalin and Hitler is not much; the difference between Bolshevism and Nazism is scant. No sane person cares to suffer under the yoke of either tyrant.
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As someone from the west, this is my favorite WWII documentary of all time. No BS and straight and to the point with the perfect amount of information, not to much to overwhelm the viewer and more than enough to keep them completely hooked.
except the bit about prokhorovka
I agree. This series is amazing. I first saw it on Amazon prime and was majorly bummed out when it was taken down because I enjoy rewatching them Great to see it’s on KRplus
Exactly
So true. As an American it irritates me how little the eastern front is discussed in American education about WW2.
@@chrisrobinson4165 which part about it was bs?
As an American, this is the most fascinating series I have ever watched. Truly beautifully created.
Although I had known that it was the USSR that stopped the Nazis and turned the tide of the war, watching these documentaries deepens my respect and admiration towards the Soviet people for their resilience and sacrifice.
The world owes them a huge amount of gratitude.
You really need to read Bloodlands by Timothy Synder.
USA supplies the USSR
@@blugaledoh2669 Lend lease amounted to just 4% of the total industrial output of the USSR. Even that came after the most crucial Battle of Moscow which the Soviet Union fought entirely on their own.
@@kishanchali8752 where did you get that 4% from?
This comment somehow hasn't aged well 🤷😜
Let's hope that respect has been reduced somewhat
2023
80 years later exactly,we are witnessing and repeating history,German tanks burning in Soviet steppes
Soviet storm is the finest ww2 documentary ever.
I believe there’s an old documentary series narrated in English by Burt Lancaster I’d love to see.
Just Googled it it’s called The Unknown War and has 20 episodes.
@@alexbowman7582 Not as good-all propaganda for reds
Absolutely the best!!!!!
the best documentary.
I can't believe i'm getting these amazing documentaries for free.
No you’re not, you have to endure commercials .
@@fordhamdonnington2738 honestly, I’d prefer commercials to paying a fee to watch this.
@@fordhamdonnington2738 this guy really uses youtube without ad blocker
@@dennisgut923you pay for that service
@@fordhamdonnington2738 Worth it. All of the ads on YT are shorter and far more sporadic than on TV. Literally 1/3 of the airtime dedicated to any program is commercials. It's ridiculous. The real scumbags are the networks and cable companies. Those assholes actually expect people to pay money to watch commercials (cable). Thankfully, networks are either adapting or dying.
Seems that the battle of Normandy was a child play compared to what happened over there in the east.
well observed. The Americans had an easy war compared with the eastern front.
@Santana Cooper wait until it start hacking your own account
Hoollywood
Well Normandy was just one single battle while the Eastern Front was a whole theater. Total difference in scale.
You mean the real war? 😆
The graphics, the narration, the pasing, the script, the soundtrack, such a well done quality job, it makes best of Western documentaries look like first year student projects.
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Ultra Tovarisch graphics not so much but otherwise yes i agree, its just that if they made the CGI vehicles more realistic.
Oweenn Real I don’t know why I like the half done cgi in documentaries. It makes it almost like I’m playing a 3d map game. It’s cool to me.
@@cookedoven first of all, it's like 10 years old and I've might misused the word, I meant how intormative the CGI scenes are. For example, look at how they described the usage of PTAB bombs on the battlefield, it's just perfect.
Soviet Storm. WW2 in the East - is the best WW2 documentary ever made.
ONE of the best though. But it is damn good and not propagandist.. Having my grandfather fighting, this documentary is REAL.. Nowadays, i don''t know.
OK. Thx. I'm checking it out now.
@Liza Tanzawa , Thank you.
These "Soviet Storm WW2 in the East" series is among the best I have seen compared to various WWII documentaries. The information provided was just incredible. Just the Best!
Soviet Storm is undoubtedly the most comprehensive, non-partisan and truthful account of the war on the Eastern Front. This theater of war not only decidedly defeated the Nazis but was the direct reason for the establishment of the Great Soviet Union and its place in history as one of the first tier military and political powers that came out of the catastrophe that was World War Two. Without the Eastern Front, the European war with the Allies against Nazi Germany could have possibly resulted in a different outcome.
Different in what sense? You mean, they would have finally successfully invaded England? They would have defeated America? What would be different? Truth is, Nazi Germany had no oil left. They would have lost either way. It was just a matter of time. The only way they ever would have won the war is if they took the Caucasus oil and Ukrainian food. Without that, they lose 100% of the time.
@@signoguns8501 Agreed, but the war would've taken longer and the Allies would've suffered enormous losses because they would had to face 130 German divisions. Without the Eastern Front, the Western front would've been bloody and maybe like the Eastern front.
@@nitrodashgaming445 Maybe. But the nazi's werent all that interested in the west. They wanted peace with the west, not war. They desperately needed to go east though. For the reasons I described. They needed the food and living space for the German population, Slavs for slave labor. Lebensraum. That was the whole point of the war in the first place. It's very difficult to imagine a war without the eastern front. Like trying to imagine boer war outside of south africa. They are intrinsically entwined. WW2 and the eastern front cant exist without each other. It would have been a completely different war. But either way, without oil, theyre not going to be beating anyone, certainly not multiple superpowers.
@@signoguns8501 This is the exact reason the Eastern front interests me
@@duncanmc797 A lot of people seem to forget that the west only joined the war to protect and aid the Eastern European countries. The nazis did not threaten the west directly.
As far as the nazi's were concerned, the war with the west was a battle for supremacy, for domination of the continent, but the war in the East was to ensure the enslavement and extermination of the Slavic ethnicity. Two very different objectives.
This is one of the best documentaries on Kursk that I have seen.
Kursk salient exists as most heavily fortified position in the history of warfare.
Germans: let’s attack there!
It was the most fortified because it was of utmost importance to the Red Army and if it fell then the tide of the war could very well have been shifted back into Germany's favor. There was little sense for Germany to deploy their army anywhere else as then the Red Army would have launched an offensive from the salient and cut off any other German advance. The only other option would have been to just dig in and fight on the defensive but with very extended supply lines and the Soviets' constantly increasing manpower and resources, this was unrealistic. So in many ways, this was a very necessary gamble for the Germans if they didn't want to be pushed out of the Soviet Union.
Alex Efimov u wrote a fricking essay jesus nice job tho lol i agree
Oweenn Real I know right. The last sentence should h e been it but he is spot on lol. Nice
Hitler should’ve listened to Manstein and attacked as soon as possible.
Hitler wouldn't listen to his generals. The corporal thought he knew better
This is the most incredible WW2 documentary!Salute to the producers!!!
I have finished this episodes too, and I will keep finishing them all. From the iron stream of Kursk to burning rubble of Berlin, still a long road to go. Let the liberation begin!
you cant even think this documentary was made by the winner,,it is so unbiased. Americans have alot to learn here
They have never won a war
@@vagrantwanderer5810 The US? They’ve won a few wars: Revolutionary War (with France’s help), American Civil War, helped the Entente break the deadlock in WWI, helped the Allies again in WW2 (along with major Soviet help in Europe; against Japan it was mainly Western European colonial troops and the US), war against Iraq (with Coalition help), etc..
One note is, many countries win wars with their allies or with foreign aid. In recent history, not many countries win wars by themselves. So US hasn’t won many wars by itself, but with its allies, they can do a lot in war.
@@vagrantwanderer5810 and you never had a job. Vagrant Wanderer.
@@jimbo5458 Ignore
@@friedrichs753 The U.S. didn't win a few battles. They Won almost all of them, Revolutionary War (but first..You forgot 1812. The Yanks defeated the British all on our own. ..... France did what France always did.... they stayed out of the War until the Americans won the battle of Saratoga and forced John Burgoyne's entire Army to surrender. In the South it was rough at first but generals/colonels kicked the Brit's ass at Cowpens, Blue Savannah, that one on the Mountain(which eludes me this moment)... King's Mountain. that's what I meant. The French Navy at Yorktown helped... If we didn't have that Navy Helping the war would be won but prolonged maybe Years.
"The shovel has won more campaigns than the sword" ....Julius Caesar.
Most Roman soldiers threw rocks.
@@johnsmith1474 lolol funny stuff. Truth is, the Roman soldier spent more time constructing stuff than actually fighting - like in the last battle in Gaul where they built not one but two huge encircling walls around the town where Vercingeterix was trapped... or when besieging Masada where they built a gigantic ramp, or in many sieges where they would build on the spot, the siege towers and rock-slingers which were so effective.... and let;s not forget Hadrian's Wall. A big part of the success of Roman armies was their planning and construction - which as Ceasar emphasized, often involved a LOT of digging :-=).
@@altareggo
Indeed, Mussolini was to the Italian, like Donald Trump is to the USA. Not much glory there, isn't it? They do have something in common, however, Their people didn't believe their lies.
Jack Russell
@Jack Russell trump is a moron
Thank you very much.....From Kentucky USA...!
Humbling to think we get to live out our natural lives and hopefully grow old without having to go through anything like this.
I shan't moan about Monday morning and work ever again.
Have you NOT been paying attention to our current reality? No. Just No. War is coming. A war that will make this offensive seem like a neighborhood brawl..."The guns come out, when the grain shipments stop..."
@@burtburt2263 shit it seems like everyone in the world feels that the generalized war on earth is coming back...
@@YasserMaghribi You're right because there is right now, an economic tidal wave coming that is so massive that if we don't paddle over the top of it we will be submerged under it never to resurface.
The start was Covid-19, next is business closures then mass unemployment followed by famine and mass suicides.... not a shot will be fired...
@@richard4short5 look at the Club of Rome and what they said about the population growth and the decline of ressources. Around 2030 more or less, there will be a big decrease of human population and historically there was 3 ways: wars, famines or diseases.
@@YasserMaghribi the 4 horsemen.....
It's been a pleasure to learn about Russia battles during ww2. Most people know about stalingrad but not so much about the many other battles!
just imagining the gun fire of all those anti tank rifles going off is giving me PTSD......... let alone the tanks, anti aircraft weapons, machine guns, etc.
I live near what was one of the main UK dockyards in WW2, the whole area was heavily bombed - I've heard an audio recording of one of the air raids and the noise level is ridiculous.
I saw a ww2 documentary a few years back that interviewed surviving russian veterans of the battle of Kursk and one of them, a tank commander, said the battle was so loud he couldnt even hear his own crew members speak inside his tank with the hatches closed. The constant shelling and bombing was nonstop and deafening. It drowned every other sound out.
Respect from a cambodian for soviet accomplishment
The reason this documentary is so great is because it tries to be unbiased as possible despite being created by the victor. Watch any American WWII documentary, and you'll really appreciate what was done in this one.
yep :)
And it's free!!! In spite of all the hard work that the creators of this production had put in this amazing documentary, they shared ir for free, that it's something to be thankful with starmedia
It's a huge factor for sure...objectivity. CGI, audio, pace and stuff I never heard before helps ofc :)
It's not completely unbiased... it's deceptive in some places in the way it whitewashes things while seeming to be at a higher intellectual level. For example, the massive Soviet defeat at 3rd Battle of Kharkov in early 1943 (100,000 casualties) seems to not be mentioned in this entire series.... or at least absent a full episode as it deserves. Also it often treats the Germans like alien invaders from Mars who we do do not understand and likes to show them attacking hospital ships, while the Soviets get sad music and slow motion effects whenever they make a heroic sacrifice (note I am basing these observations on the Sevastopol episode which is much more biased in the way it is presented than this Kursk one).
This was the tipping point- after Rokossovsky's successful defense of the salient in the north, the successful defense at Prokhorovka in the south allowed the counteroffensive to begin. Hitler lost his last chance to win the war, outfought and outgeneralled. It was awesome. The Red Army seized the initiative, never to lose it.
The scale of the war between Germany and Russia is almost hard to comprehend
Johann Bach
The scale of war between Russia and Germany was fought on one front. The rest of the Allies fought around the world on numerous fronts and continents.
saved american lives
Vsatyk
So you actually believe the Russian front was larger than the Western European front, African campaign, and the entire Pacific ocean combined? Your map could be defective.
Vsatyk
The Pacific war covered hundreds of thousands of square miles and required logistical support details never before seen. Hundreds of ships carrying tens of thousands of men, equipment and all supplies across the largest ocean in the world, to take island after island.
The Pacific war was the cruelest war in modern history. The Japanese soldier gave nor wanted any quarter.
Some seem to believe everybody just got in a boat and went to an island and fought it out. They don't consider the naval war of aircraft carriers and support ships required to stop Japanese reinforcement. The Japanese Navy was pretty good at their business and were absolute masters of nighttime naval warfare. In the last 6 months of the war, 47 American ships were sunk by kamikazes alone. The Pacific war was on land and sea, where the European war was a land war other than keeping the North Atlantic open for shipping from the US.
The Pacific campaign makes Barbarossa pale in comparison.
How many ships and heavy bombers did the Russians lose. Oh wait, they didn't have any. How do you win a WORLD WAR WITHOUT bombers and a navy.
Vsatyk
Operation Barbarossa like any military operation wasn't a solid line of troops. It was several battles separated by hundreds of miles in-between the groups, just as the Pacific campaign was the taking of several islands at any given time. They might be fighting on several islands simultaneously, not one at a time, all requiring the ships and men to take and hold those islands. The one's you read about are just the famous one's for one reason or another, but there were hundreds of other's you've never heard of.
And the American and Japanese had numerous face to face, gun to gun battles when the Japanese would try to destroy the support ships for the landing force. The battle of Layte Gulf was the largest naval battle in history and was definitely face to face.
A really excellent documentary! Western versions of the conflict between Germany and Soviet Union do not have the historical detail of these great videos!! Not diminishing the contributions and sacrifices of the UK and USA, The Soviet Union won the war for the allies with Germany! I am from the US but have a great friend from Minsk. He and I agree the "Cold War" was a manifestation of the US and Soviet Union governments and the media. People from the countries of the former Soviet Union are great and extremely friendly. Thank you to the people of the former Soviet Union for their many sacrifices during WWII!
The Nazis destroyed in USSR 8,000 towns and villages , killing 28 million people, including 17 million civilians. It was the Red Army that had the largest share in the defeat of Nazi Germany. It is terrible that the memory of the generation of great-grandfathers who experienced the terrible WW2 is changed by the generation of their great-grandchildren, who form their opinions about this bloody war according to the scenarios of stupid movies produced by the dream and lie factory - Holywood.
You can see and read:
www.les-crises.fr/the-successful-70-year-campaign-to-convince-people-the-usa-and-not-the-ussr-beat-hitler/
It is tragic and unbelievable, but in today's Europe there is a tendency to celebrate murderers and forget about their victims. That is why the Russian tradition of the "immortal regiment" is very, very important.
Without the allies USA UK CANADA Germany would of defeated the Soviet Union millions of men thousands of planes tanks were on the western front imagine all these men moved to the eastern front Russians would of been annihilated
@@jakecarson4587 - well we can talk about hypotheticals all day. The fact remains the Soviets crushed the Germans. Hitler and his "cronies" were mad men and took the good German people down with them!
This documentary series is more entertaining than most movies of ww2.
Hitler: Hold Kharkov
Manstien, remembering Stalingrad: *No.*
Top Quality stuff here. Clear and Concisely delivered historical narrative is a welcome here!! Hats of to the crew of folks that put this together
Imagine If the Nazi's were able to supplement the western front with just an 80 000 troops. That would've been disastrous for the US and British landings at Normandy and Italy
A great documentary, worthily complimented by the strategic interpretation of the keyboard soldiers of the KRplus battlefield.
LOL Even in text, you've mimicked the meter and tone of the narrator. I detect an English accent as well! I got a good chuckle out of your comment.
The placement of the Russian anti-tank guns reminds me of the Napoleonic anti-cavalry infantry squares.
The objectivity of this series rates it my highest accolade. Let that be said of episodes 1-8 inclusive as well, and I anxiously await enjoying episode 10.
It's still quite biased and doesn't shed true lights on the German events.
@@aliasmcgames Sounds exactly as if someone was ignorant about the actual parts/course of history! History is written by the victors...
@@HuubHeesakkers you didn’t watch it then. It literally speaks in favour of neither side.
in less than 2 months 1 million people died on that battlefield that is crazy to me
Paulie Gualtieri and Stalingrad was another 2 million from the end of the last summer offensive.
@@sgs1262 lol corona isnt done with us yet
James R Covid about to open a second front on our lines. Pincer movement lol. Covitzkrieg movement
@@cmasterson well played. Lol
@@Treklosopher lol 😂
The amount of work the Russians did to prepare for this battle is mind boggling.
The fact that civilians dug and built all those defensive lines and kill zones is awe inspiring. Kursk stalingrad were 2 of the greatest battles in history. Russia standing firm on the river Volga is one of the great defensive stands.
29:27 "...dig trenches. They will be either your fortress or your grave"
Well, atleast you don't have to worry about you being buried alone, your comrades are next to you, dead......
Yep, 2 or 3 generations of Hitler's former boy scouts and Hitler's youth are still fertilizing Eastern Europe and the Stepps of Mother Russia with their sweat, tears, flesh blood and bones and will do so for a thousand years just like Adolph Hitler promised them.
both both is bad
Very laconic.
This entire series has such a detail explanations, amazing. Probably best series regarding Eastern front.
Soviets: (capture a Tiger I tank) Wow neat tank. Lets call it the Elephant.
Elefant Tank Destroyer: Am i a joke to you?
There was Ferdinands, and only later came Elefants
From 16:51 to 17:50 , the battle is intense, both sides firing at each other intensely, truly, decided that this war was the most decisive war, it's true, something unimaginable happened which changed the course of war
Meanwhile the background music always gives me the chills
Really an epic , masterful and unbiased documentary with good and detailed computer graphics
Kai re bhau kasa ais tu...
I found my way here from auto play while I was sleeping and have been engrossed for hours!! *chef’s kiss* absolutely the best docu-series
Would ABSOUTLY LOVE to see a documentary about Georgy Zhukov.
Georgy marshal zhukov the best general of all time.
@@unclesam7702 i don't agree with you. On my point of view, Rokossovsky was best general. My great-grandfather (Stalingrad battle veteran) always said that he was genius
@@user-wz5ry7tm7e But isn't it true that Gen. Zhukov had the responsibility of entire fronts while Rokossovsky was his subordinate? Zhukov faced failures such as Rzhev debacle but he was able to turn the tide on the enemy.
@@kishanchali8752 Yep, at the beginning Rokossovsky was under Zhukov, but sooner he became Frontline commander.
(front means group of army, but in USSR group of army is not same as Germans. Germans group of army actually group of fronts)
Rokossovsky's first front was "Don" front, fighting under Stalingrad, participated in "Uran" operation. Soon his front were renamed to "Central" front, he defended North part of Kursk bludge. After Kursk battle his front were renamed again to "First Belarusian" front. With this front and with other generals as you may know he annihilated Germans Group of Army Center.
(Soon First Belarusian was given to Zhukov, that was on my point of view political moment)
What about Zhukov? Of course he is hero. He a bit cruel, but he never killed citizens, Rzhev battle was terrible, and definitely his greatest defeat. Thus, I like Rokossovsky as general more. As I said before my great-grandfather always said that he is excellent general
Thank you for bringing back this series in English!
Heaviest battle of all time. I can only imagine what it would have been like to be a grunt on either side.
It was a literal hell I would imagine. Not only u gotta knock out opposite side tanks and then u have to fight hand to hand. It's scary bro.
Mines don’t forget about all the minefields, mg emplacements, tanks and a lot of artillery and mortars.
@@vandamme7084 Also the anti - tank guns firing at tanks, the artillery firing at trenches and tanks, the fighters having dogfights above, the hand to hand combat, tanks engaging other tanks, bombers raining literal hell on the frontlines, rocket launchers giving hell to germans and many more.
Thank you so much for getting it back. Special for lockdown watching.
Taken on its face value; the documentary gives a good lesson on the war's movement at that time frame. No more insinuation is needed.
Actually, Hitler was rather nervous about Citadel, famously remarking "Every time I think about Operation: Citadel, my stomach turns." His generals, however, pompously assumed they could win and convinced him to give them the go-ahead--something they denied later, insisting that all the stupid moves they made were Hitler's ideas.
Funny enough it was Guderian that changed Hitler’s mind. Guderian was smart enough to survive the war and paint him as the smartest general in the German Army
@@TheNorthie Same with Manstein. Their respective memoirs had these three themes:
1) All the failures were Hitler's fault.
2) All atrocities were restricted to the SS and the Einsatzgruppen.
3) They knew nothing of the Holocaust.
All nonsense, of course. Both men should have been hanged--the Poles and the Soviets even demanded Guderian's death, but the Western Allies would have none of it.
All I have to go by is my grandpa's words, "If it hadn't been for that madman Hitler, Germany might have won the war. Germany had better equipment, better generals, and a highly professional military. "
@@shannonmccullough8324 Nah, Germany was NEVER going to win. Check out Potential History's videos on the subject. Barbarossa was particularly badly planned. They relied more on horses than tanks and trucks, but German propaganda deliberated steered away from this to make their forces look better; the generals tended to be just as arrogant, racist, and sometimes downright idiotic as Hitler; and there was too much squabbling amongst the military branches that was only barely suppressed by, ironically, Hitler's bullying.
@@pyromania1018 Barbarossa was actually wasn't that badly planned, it might have at at least its aim of taking Moscow if Hitler had not ordered guderian to move toward Kiev and hoth to assist Army Group North. If Germany was much better equipped and Hitler wouldn't have intervened then for sure Barbarossa would be a success, before giving your comment dont only look on potential history but also look on other channels and read books written by soviet military historians, dont be delusional. There were some generals responsible for the holocaust and other war crimes but those generals were much better strategist in their era(eg. manstein and guderian).They were the main advocativist of blitzkrieg , which was so successful in the early years of the war, it was even successful during operation Barbarossa but it was all ruined when Hitler ordered his panzer groups to assist army group south and north rather than taking Moscow when they had the opportunity.
This is a very well done series. The reenactment is quite good. The narrating is excellent. Probably one of the top ten ww2 documentary series imo.
"By the end of the day half of the mighty Ferdinands were out of action" mainly due to their piss poor engines overheating and catching fire XD
"Not a step back!"
Hey..it worked.
Because they the Russians exactly what the Germans were doing.. anyone can win then. The enigma was cracked and all planning that the Germans made (that was available) was send to the Soviets so they could prepare the in-depth defenses they made (which is nearly impossible to completely crack). They only won due to enigma being cracked & their carelessness for Russian lives, just throwing non-stop men at the enemy.
Order "Not a step back" was just discipline improving move. Any armies, either US or UK will punish deserters
Ah. The good times when the history channel was about history. Rather than per say... 'Alien hunters' and pawn shops
This isn’t from the history channel, but yeah I’m glad they are bringing back documentaries on Sunday nights
@@xxlegoteenxx At least in the UK I'm sure I remember this program being on the ol' 501 or something like that history channel quite a few years back
Sgtsmith its Russian made, translated into English (with quite some anti-soviet/Russian bias) but for most part it’s done good
@@CFbastar yes, I'm well aware of that anti-Russian western bias. Trust me, no propaganda is good enough for all of us, not even, American and/or Chinese propaganda. We'd live by our own propaganda standards of our home countries, wouldn't we? After all, I was born and raised in Spain, so there's always been a load of Western (mainly American and/or British) propaganda since the beginning of time.
@@pma281 Im talking about the fact that its russian made, the english translation contains anti-russian propaganda
good thing its subtle tho and in acceptable quantities
Thank you sir, great content.
Winston Churchill Said in his biography, “I get up every morning and pray that Stalin is alive and well. Only Stalin can save the world”
Amazing documentary! So well done in so many ways..
very good production with combined actual film and animation
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Very very great
Our boys called them Nazis or Jerrys or Germans. The Soviets just called them "Hitlerites". LOL
So, the Russians aren't very imaginative. What else is new?
Also "Fascist Beasts"
@@fenrir7878 How about "Fucking Krauts."
@@donkeyslayer4661 Germans isn't very imaginative either, your point?
@@donkeyslayer4661 imaginative?
Great work
It seems Russia's enemies might not have learned the lessons of Kursk.
Can't believe the quality of these documentaries, bravo
The men that crawled into those stifling hot metal coffins willingly and with balls of the same steel, have my admiration and respect, the bravery it took knowing that you're most likely going to die and do it with vigor and honor, what men these were.
Some did some didn't, depends what country u were fighting for
@@badmonkey2222 Don't fight for Austria, it is not smart.
well yeah but they didnt have a choice,courage or not they were getting in the tank
This Russian documentation is extremely valuable. It shows that any attempt to raid the Russian Federation is insane.
Napoleon Bonaparte learned, the Russians burned everything behind them and sucked in the French troops deeper in Russia. The Russians were just waiting for the winter. Only the Mongols were successful in Russia.
Absolutely love this channel! What fantastically done videos. Do they come in 1080p rather than 720p? I really would like to see them in HD.
A nice documentary with vivid description of incidents.
12:26 Awww... this just proves that the Soviet generals & Stalin did care about their troops
The sound of the Russian missle barrage is the scariest sound of ww2
The Stuka dive bomber siren is a very close second. Yikes!!!
nah,
no.2 is the katyusha
no.3 is the Stuka
no.1 is Stalin being angry
@@yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907 you are right. I read Zhukov's memoirs, there Zhukov described Stalin's appearance when he was angry. "It was scary to look at him. The eyes shot with lightning, the face became pale."
1943: Germans wait for new tanks to attack while the Soviets build defensive lines and minefields. About air parity but after the battle the Soviets gain superiority.
2023: The Ukrainians wait for western tanks while the Russians do the same as the Soviets. Ukrainian airforce is negligible, but they have drones and missiles. Russia uses drones, helicopters, air-launched glide bombs and ATGMs.
Quite the parallels. Anyone else got some other differences/similarities between the offensives?
Very many parrells indeed.
Great documentary. Much appreciated from America
I'm so glad I discovered this channel.
My Solute to Red Army.
Even though with less Sophisticated armours they fought intelligently to crush Nazis
They won through repeated attacks, losing men, determination, and the ability to replace tanks that were good at a rate 10 to 1 of the germsns
@@Historyguy-xu5ht Did you learn that from watching Hollywood movies and anti-Soviet propaganda? K/D ratio was something like 1 German to 1.9 Soviet soldiers, but this does not take into account Axis soldiers like the Romanians, Italians and others so the real K/D is closer to 1 to 1.3 or something like that, i am going off memory so i might be wrong by +/- 0.1.
@@user-dp4ok9ox5w i am still wonder. West people have better life conditions, but still easy "target of propaganda". Our Schools (from post-Soviet countries) have great history education systems. They describes and explains all reasons. They never saying that "Stalin good man, Hitler bad man. Or Putin/Nazarbayev/Lukashenko top, others poor", no, schools attempt to describe both advantages and disadvantages of certain things. For example, Stalin's political movements killed a lot of people, but it dramatically developed manufacture systems in Kazakhstan. Hitler killed a lot of people, he was mad, but he improved economy.
@@user-wz5ry7tm7e I mean it is easy to just Google the killed to death ratio, but people are just too lazy and want to believe what they saw in movies instead of using their own brains...or worse they count the civilian casualties into the mix. Not even to mention that the Axis forces had often superior or comparable numbers in many battles especially during the first two years of the wars.
@@user-dp4ok9ox5w also I wonder that a lot of people believes that Call of duty Soviet campaign is truth 😂 God damn, that is new level of stupidity
6 years later I'm still trying to figure out who Babich design is.
Babich is the name of the production designer, he probably has something to do with it
Top Class Film
awesome video!
Bravo à tous les camarades soviétiques !!! Il est temps de saigner la bête !!!
A fantastic story of courage sheer grit and love of country by the Russia’s it is sad that they were let down by sometimes dubious decisions a valuable lesson to modern soldiers very well described and presented thank you a former soldier
You aren't saying anything.
Brilliant
A magnificent presentation with stellar quality graphics! 6-13-2020
Very grand victory of Soviet's over Nazi Germany !!!
Because they the Russians exactly what the Germans were doing.. anyone can win then. The enigma was cracked and all planning that the Germans made (that was available) was send to the Soviets so they could prepare the in-depth defenses they made (which is nearly impossible to completely crack). They only won due to enigma being cracked & their carelessness for Russian lives, just throwing non-stop men at the enemy.
@@HuubHeesakkers You are trying to over simplifying Soviet Union's power n progress
@@rohitmishra9517 I did not talk about Soviet Union power in progress, I spoke about the battle of Kursk. The Russians knew exactly from which point - and how many - Germans would come from where. Because they got classified information from the British since the German ENIGMA was cracked. If the Russians did not know where they would attack, Kursk would have been a German victory (as it almost was until Hitler called off the attack).
@@HuubHeesakkers So how did the mighty Germans lost in Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad? The Red Army was able to stop them and turn them away.
The best documentary I have noticed by soviets same way liberate
A simple but great documentary
It's not 'simple'... this took enormous production efforts.
I'am russia, and i'm very moved when i listen story of my ancestors. My great grandfather die in world war II, and my second great grandfather became a colonel during the war and by some miracle he did not die!
Be very proud! Their courage will never be forgotten.
Tom Grisak yes, but the Americans captured the first German city during the war ( Aachen) and Britain than captured Hamburg. Berlin was easy to take for the Soviets because the USA 🇺🇸 and Britain 🇬🇧 had already bombed the city for a straight 14 days and the majority of its population was Evacuated.
Tom Grisak Russia 🇷🇺 has a negative K.D. With Germany 🇩🇪, because we actually lost less men, tanks and aircraft and for every German soldier killed 8 Soviets died and that is true. The Americans and British captured German territory much much faster than the Soviets did.
Tom Grisak Germany 🇩🇪 is a very rich nation now in fact we have the largest economy in Europe, while Russia 🇷🇺 has an economy less than Canada’s 🇨🇦 . Russia 🇷🇺 has a negative KD and lost 8 times more men than Germany 🇩🇪 did. I’ll give it the Russians their good at dying a lot, but in reality the USA 🇺🇸 captured the first German city ( Aachen) and Britain 🇬🇧 captured the second city. Russians also only act like Germany was fighting them, when in reality we had men in Africa, France,Italy, Belgium etc and D-Day was very large part in why Germany lost as well as American and British bombers that destroyed 75 percent of Berlin’s infrastructure before the Soviets invaded. The Russians didn’t do it by themselves, don’t forget the 5 million Ukrainians that died in the Red army and Latvians, Kazakhstan etc
You are in rare category. Most young people everywhere do not want to be bothered with these memories. My tour guides in Russia were annoyed every time I asked WW2 question.
900k wehrmatch soldiers couldn't pass through Soviet defenses because they faced brave red army soldiers
Because the Russians knew exactly what the Germans were doing, anyone can win then. The enigma was cracked and all planning that the Germans made (that was available) was send to the Soviets so they could prepare the in-depth defenses they made (which is nearly impossible to completely crack). They only won due to enigma being cracked & their carelessness for Russian lives, just throwing non-stop men at the enemy. Zhukov also PERSONALLY stated that without the US/British aid in aid they would have lost the war.
@Fuck KRplus Unfortunately, I must decline your request for submission!
Left KRplus running whilst I slept, interesting thing to wake up to 😂
one of my favourite Kursk docos
As authentic a documentary as one can ever hope to see. Accurate in it's telling. All the uncertainties of battle have been recalled. Some battle
It's not particularly authentic, and pretty completely lacking in insight. It's just a list of stuff and completely weak description. Not even useful as a description except for some mapwork, which is basic stuff better presented in dozens of books.
@@johnsmith1474 It's got everything you could possibly want in a documentary. The map, the fighting, the tactics, strategies, its amazing.
Adolf Hitler came and went accomplishing absolutely nothing in the process, damn what a madman.
Because the Russians knew exactly what the Germans were doing, anyone can win then. The enigma was cracked and all planning that the Germans made (that was available) was send to the Soviets so they could prepare the in-depth defenses they made (which is nearly impossible to completely crack). They only won due to enigma being cracked & their carelessness for Russian lives, just throwing non-stop men at the enemy.
@@HuubHeesakkers this might be the dumbest comment i've read this year. thank you.
@@henrijs1733 Likewise!
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The whole Kursk operation was primarily Rakasovski's idea and supported by Jukov. Vatutin and the general staff were asking to attack. The creation of the reserve front was also his idea. He also asked to be given command of both nothern and southern fronts but stalin agrred to everything else but that. Instead, he put Jukov as the overall coordinator of all three fronts.
Rakasovski also put his defenses differently as explained in the video. He learned this and tried it in the battle of moskov in conjuction with his division commander Panfilov.
Vatutin put his diffense as one long line like in ww1 and thats why all his defenses got broken as well as he used up all the reserve front. Rakasovski was not even given any extra man from the reserve. After this Stalin would consider Rakasovski one of his best Marshals almost equal to Jukov.
history teachers at school.. we gonna watch documentory this week. all please take notes!
Boring, just boring...
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glad itis back up
can't stop watching this
Rotminstrov had around 700 tanks (550 of his own, that belonged to 5th Guard Tank Army, and additional 150 tanks of gen. Zhadov's 5th Guard Infantry Army, and in total Rotminstrov loses at Prokhorovka were 395 tanks. However, of these 395 tanks 190 were made ready for the battle again in terms of 2 days. The loses of three German tank divisions were not less than 300 tanks (Panzers and Tigers) and they were not possible to be repaired. Thus, the net soviet loses at Prokhorovka were somewhere between 205 and 210, tanks, while Germans lost 300 tanks. It was a clear victory of Russians !!!
You are more Russian patriot than some Russians!
You're dreaming. You can't know any of the correct tank totals because both sides are epic liars.
Beyond that, the real battle was in the skies over Kursk. That's what decided the fight. The Red air force destroyed the Luftwaffe.
The latter ran out of avgas -- so the Reds shot it to pieces on the ground.
There are more than a few Russian pilot diaries that attest to this totally lop-sided out-come.
The Reds showed up -- and the Germans were found just sitting on the ground... waiting to be gassed up.
Well, it was too late.
NOT RUSSIANS, Soviet soldiers!
Don't ever believe the numbers Nazis gave you. They were literally crushed.
6:50 There are a few mistakes. This variant of the Fw 190 (with wing-mounted MK 103 cannons) was never used operationally, just a few prototypes.
yes and thats why a german ace mention using them in the video, because they were never used operationally
@@maddoxlin7805 I think you're confusing the Fw 190 with the Ju 87 Stuka. Yes, this aircraft, in the G variant, was equipped with 37mm cannons.
It was used in the sturmbocke configuration for attacking allied heavy bombers
@@maisonraider4593 That's the 30mm Mk 108, a much more compact and light weapon (and less powerful)
very good!
Wow, this war really led to massive inventions and innovations. Especially in the military front.
Excellent film. A few comments: the Germans had no where near the amount of Tigers and Ferdinands depicted. EG - the SS PZ Divs had a company each of Tigers. There were two (IIRC) additional battlions as well.
Most if not all of the Panthers (Pz V) were attached in brigade strength to PZ Div "Grossdeutchland" and their's was an inauspicious debut - they had major "teething problems", sometimes catching fire, and they ran right into a minefield first thing. It might be said that those 200 Panthers contributed little to the attack and only on the Southern front.
The Soviets launched a massive pre-emptive air attack but it was intercepted. The artillery strike was more successful and was rather a classic in pre-emptive fire.
Never again, would the Germans collect a panzer reserve strong enough to matter against the Soviets. That's why the battle of the bulge was conducted against the Americans - Fritz simply wasn't strong enough to make a decisive difference in the east - not after the "Ten Blows" that followed Kursk.
As a side note: the Panthers were a no-show because -- in freak weather -- the Panthers were mudded in by a night's downpour. They'd been parked in a dry gully -- that got very, very wet. A flash flood, in fact. So they missed the battle -- almost entirely. That's why you just don't read about GD during Kursk.
The Panthers only suffered two or three engine fires. That's all. Yet, for the purposes of a narrative, the Krauts shifted the mud fiasco out of the tale and dropped in the 'factory problem.' In so doing, they hid the stupidities of the panzer commanders. They should've raced to their machines when the rains came. But, for the most part, they were asleep ! Yup. Without its Panthers, the GD was not going anywhere.
You are correct about the Tigers. The typical Tiger company was tromping around with a mere ten-machines -- often less.
They were repair hogs. Their running gear needed a LOT of work -- and the dust of Kursk was no help. The rotten fuel used meant constant spark plug swaps, too.
Damn those Russians were good. Can't deny the awesome power of the Red Army once Stalingrad started
this battle seems pivotal to the soviet understanding of german warfare - they prepared so well it astonishes me.
Amazing , just amazing , all this and no Patton or Montgomery anyway near . just amazing .
It is worth noting that German planning for this folly was totally unimaginative due to Hitler's growing control of German planning. The whole tactical plan was based entirely on the dogma of German superiority of men and weaponry overcoming dug in Soviet numerical superiority. Totally unlike the succesful German Army leadership of 1940, 41, and the first part of 43 which was was about maneuver, surprise, and flexibility in their thinking. The Russians played this battle exactly right and capitalized on the arrogance of the Nazis. (with the exception of the suicidal counter attacks).
Even those suicidal counter attacks were necessary. It's hard to predict when to counter-attack. But those attacks did blunt the German forces even more. And the attack on Prokhorovka was on the same day as Operation Kutuzov started.
I agree. They basically fought a WW1 battle with WW2 weapon
The heroics of the Soviet people saved the mankind from Fascism.
And plagued eastern europe with a communist controlled government that makes it a place people flee from.
That is one hell of an ignorant statement.
@@HuubHeesakkers the op is very arrogant
NO. The USA saved the world. Bolshevism IS fascistic, itself.
The difference between Stalin and Hitler is not much; the difference between Bolshevism and Nazism is scant.
No sane person cares to suffer under the yoke of either tyrant.
@@davidhimmelsbach557 You are talking out of your rear, and make silly opinionated claims to little sense. How old are you?