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Genre: Entertainment
Date of upload: Mar 14, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.876 (11,684/365,471 LTDR)
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My great-grandfather was a foreman in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. He defended Leningrad, fought against the Germans and Finns on the Volchov front, and at the end of 1944 his division was transferred to Poland to participate in the Vistula-Oder operation. He went through the whole war, but died very absurdly - on May 13, 1945, his company was clearing an airfield in Czechoslovakia from the last fighting Nazis, and before surrendering, the Germans left barrels of methyl alcohol there. After the fight, they found them and drank them, as a result, everyone, including my great-grandfather, died of poisoning.
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The Operation Barbarossa section gives me chills every time. The music, the gigantic numbers, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands encircled. 80% of men born in the USSR in 1922 would be dead by the war's end, and those three months reflect it wholesale. The air raid sirens and general chaos of the music really drive home how barbaric it was.
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You did a great job portraying the changing front lines during the war! If you know what battle you're looking for, it's quite easy to find it in this time lapse. The parts of the map that are circled when armies have been surrounded gave me a new appreciation for how effective and widespread it was to try and create those scenarios. Clearly some of the smartest minds in the world got together to orchestrate this fight for dominance. What a great showcase of how two giant, amorphous animals fought a war of annihilation on a monumental scale.
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@Woodscraps-lr5vz
2 years ago
Definitely shows how WWII was much much more of a Soviet-German thing in Europe than it really was an American thing.
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