Message from @Erwin Rommel

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2019-05-10 10:08:58 UTC  

Not at the interior

2019-05-10 10:09:09 UTC  

Lets also ignore the fact that tank buildup was outnumbering every other major nation combined

2019-05-10 10:09:13 UTC  

Kinda military 101

2019-05-10 10:09:21 UTC  

You don't for defensive operations

2019-05-10 10:09:25 UTC  

You forget they were fighting Japan?

2019-05-10 10:09:31 UTC  

In 1941?

2019-05-10 10:09:35 UTC  

With their entire army?

2019-05-10 10:09:45 UTC  

Please

2019-05-10 10:10:03 UTC  

An army placed on a defensive position does not have its airforce on the border

2019-05-10 10:10:13 UTC  

that's held true since 1914 and still does today

2019-05-10 10:10:24 UTC  

Why?

2019-05-10 10:10:37 UTC  

Because it's simply way too easy for the enemy to destroy your planes on the ground

2019-05-10 10:10:44 UTC  

peace time isn't a defensive operation

2019-05-10 10:10:47 UTC  

which is exactly what happened

2019-05-10 10:11:00 UTC  

They literally lost 3/4 of their airforce in the first 6 months of fighting

2019-05-10 10:11:07 UTC  

Um Russian planes didn't have much range....Hence the nearby

2019-05-10 10:11:11 UTC  

not quite 3/4 but around 70% if I'm not mistaken

2019-05-10 10:11:13 UTC  

The Luftwaffa outranged them

2019-05-10 10:11:43 UTC  

They had more than enough range to conduct defensive operations had they been placed in the rear

2019-05-10 10:12:12 UTC  

They just couldn't be placed in the rear *and* conduct offensive operations

2019-05-10 10:12:27 UTC  

Just look at the composition of the soviet army during the invasion of Finland and Poland in 1939

2019-05-10 10:12:43 UTC  

It was the same

2019-05-10 10:12:54 UTC  

it's all the same man

2019-05-10 10:13:04 UTC  

the world is a kaleidoscope

2019-05-10 10:13:11 UTC  

flowers are better than tanks

2019-05-10 10:13:18 UTC  

That just tells me you don't know how different armies are composed and placed on the battlefield

2019-05-10 10:13:22 UTC  

Also again Stalin was a moron militarily, as well he didn't think Germany would ever invade

2019-05-10 10:13:33 UTC  

Again, why he didn't respond for near 2 weeks

2019-05-10 10:13:38 UTC  

Stalin didn't need Germany to invade

2019-05-10 10:13:45 UTC  

He was convinced WW1 would repeat itself

2019-05-10 10:13:50 UTC  

and he was mostly correct

2019-05-10 10:14:02 UTC  

the only mistake he made was not predict how quickly Hitler would overrun Western Europe

2019-05-10 10:14:05 UTC  

nobody did

2019-05-10 10:14:17 UTC  

Even Hitler himself was surprised again and again

2019-05-10 10:14:26 UTC  

especially with France and Norway

2019-05-10 10:14:49 UTC  

Stalin's plan was to let the west fight it out then proceed west himself

2019-05-10 10:15:00 UTC  

with his thousands of new tanks and planes

2019-05-10 10:15:07 UTC  

so to sum up. it was all britains fault, staling would have stabbed hitler in the back if not hitler had stabbed stalin in the back first... just like with the night of the long knives and hitler wasn't a moron

2019-05-10 10:15:30 UTC  

Of course it wasn't all Britain's fault

2019-05-10 10:15:37 UTC  

it's interesting you know stalin's plans

2019-05-10 10:15:39 UTC  

France did fall faster then Norway. and because of the fall of France, UK had to pull out of norway where they was pushing the Germans back to go and save their allies in France.