Dealing with constant insults against Polish

The first man to commit suicide from the Warsaw Stalin Tower was French - he thought it a more honorable place to die than the Eiffel Tower

Any truth to this or are you just trash talking??

Wrong; The Russians had some fine planes and some very fast tanks. However the planes and tanks had no fuel or ammo. The Russians no food. That last strike where the Russian Tanks and planes Blitzed the Germans at Stalingrade was made possible by the USA. The US supplied the parts for the broken down tanks and planes. The US railway supplied food,clothing, ammo, fuel. Even though the Germans had no supplies either did the Russians. Without the US turning the tide with Supplies the Germans would have taken Stalingrad. I guess you think Russian tanks and planes run without fuel and ammo. Read up about how fast the USA built the Railroad in Northern Russia. The US supplied 98% of the supplies to the Russians at their Victory at Stalingrad.

A fellow told me the other day how surprised he was when he walked up to the dead german soldiers and saw Blonde 16 year old girls in uniform. Toward the end, there were quite a few dying. I don't think there are any numbers.

quite possibly - I think they recruited girls as young as 14 - the Deutsches Jungvolk even younger

Cantonese is a language spoken in China (there are several languages, but this is one of the main ones)
China

This is according to the actual numbers of people who speak various languages.. (ie) given the huge numbers of Cantonese speaking people in China, although it isnt spoken in other countries it still makes it one of most widely spoken languages (in terms of sheer numbers of people) I cant be bothered to look up the actual statistics, so Im sure some stat freak will prove me wrong..

Thats impossible. How exactly did the US get supplies to Russia? They had to be shipped from US to Uk, then on by the British navy to Archangel.

It is physically impossible for the amount of supplies you claim to have been shipped, Britain barely get enough through to supply its army one tenth the size of Russia's. Britain did supply as much as it could but the figures were tiny compaired to the USSR's needs.

98%? What are your sources?

The question is, would there still be a will after Britain’s defeat?

A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to nearly $700 billion at 2007 prices) worth of supplies were shipped: $31.4 billion to Britain, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France and $1.6 billion to China. The USSR was highly dependent on trains, yet the desperate need to produce weapons meant that only about 92 locomotives were produced in the USSR during the entire war. In this context, the supply of 1,981 US locomotives can be better understood. Likewise, the Soviet air force was almost completely dependent on US supplies of very high octane aviation fuel. Although most Red Army tank units were equipped with Soviet-built tanks, their logistical support was provided by hundreds of thousands of high-quality US-made trucks. Indeed by 1945 nearly two-thirds of the truck strength of the Red Army was US-built. Trucks such as the Dodge ¾ ton and Studebaker 2.5 ton, were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. US supplies of telephone cable, aluminium, and canned rations were also critical.

The list below is the amount of war material shipped to the Soviet Union through the US Lend-Lease program from its beginning until 30 September 1945.

Aircraft 14,795
Tanks 7,056
Jeeps 51,503
Trucks 375,883
Motorcycles 35,170
Tractors 8,071
Guns 8,218
Machine guns 131,633
Explosives 345,735 tons
Building equipment valued $10,910,000
Railroad freight cars 11,155
Locomotives 1,981
Cargo ships 90
Submarine hunters 105
Torpedo boats 197
Ship engines 7,784
Food supplies 4,478,000 tons
Machines and equipment $1,078,965,000
Non-ferrous metals 802,000 tons
Petroleum products 2,670,000 tons
Chemicals 842,000 tons
Cotton 106,893,000 tons
Leather 49,860 tons
Tires 3,786,000
Army boots 15,417,001 pairs

If Britain had been defeated, the US would have gone round the back door, joined the Russians making a combined thrust from the East - and of course the soft under belly (Italy) having first defeated Rommel in North Africa

do we have any ideas who was running this program during that time? I would
like to know.

ever faced any serious insult for being a Polish dear one?

Trucks, yes. Boots yes, Locomotives, yes.

But for the other stuff, what %age of the total Soviet needs/production? Did it make teh difference between winning or loosing, or were the 20Million Russia dead a better contribution.?

WW2 cost Britain £300Billion, $1200billion in 1945 money.

Your 50 => 700Bn calculation is wrong. Its more like $250Bn. Britain paid for it BTW, it wasn't a gift.

I heard 11 million war dead and the rest victims of Stalin's own work/starvation etc

I borrowed this from another source - some historian.

My own opinion would be that - without the help of the US, Germany would have won the war. The UK would not have been strong enough to take on Hitler - it was bankrupt in 1944. Because of this there wouldn't have been a second front in the west and Germany would have sent it's full strength to defeat Russia. Like I said before, Poland defeated Russia in 1920.

Since when is there a US railway in Russia???

Oh my God. It is true. Thats funny stuff. I suddenly love French people.

The Axis powers had 90% of their strength against the Soviet Union. By the time the Allies invaded in 1944 the Axis were in full retreat. Do you think having an extra 10% would have allowed Germany to defeat the Soviet Union? Seems highly unlikely.

Yes, Poland defeated the Russians in 1920. However the army's were ten times bigger in 1943.

Nonsense. Poland lasted against the best army in the world at the time--Nazi Germany--for 4 weeks. And 2 weeks into the German attack, the USSR attacked from behind. Poland lost a 2-front war against Germany and the country that had at the time the largest military in the world.

CONTRAST that to France,which lasted a little over one month in a one-front invasion. And the French and British (and Belgium and Holland) had MORE tanks, planes and troops than Germany had.

Or contrast Poland's fate to Yugolsovia and Greece. They both only lasted 14 days against Germany (and Hungary).

The Polish resistance was active during the entire war against the Nazis. Contrast that with France (where more French HELPED Hitler and volunteered to fight for the SS than joined the resistance). The Polish underground was way more active than anyother European country (except maybe Russia). MOST European non-German allied countries, including Holland, Belgium, Denmark and even Switzerland, fielded HUGE amounts of volunteers for Hitler.

Every country in WW2 had calvary, including the Germans. The Russians used calvary well into the 1950s.

To be forever debated...

Without the Western air campagin agianst Germany, all of the German airforce would have been against Russia. 90% of the Luftwaffe fought against the west and the bombing campaign...and without the bombing, German industry would have been producing even more tanks and planes than it already was.

Had the forces arrayed in Normandy (6 first rate SS Panzer divisons, about 900 plus Panter and Tiger tanks) been in the East, along with a few thousand extra fighter planes, a stalemate might have been possible...especially if Lend Lease by America would not have been giving the Soviets tens of thousands of trucks and thousands of Sherman tanks.

they did ! In northern theatre of war the Murmansk port was important target for German Gebirgsjäger stationed in Lapland. About a quarter of lend lease came through Murmansk.
About half came from Vladivostok, abot one quarter from Persia and the rest from Black Sea.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Silver_Fox

You speak finnish ??

Never heard about adjusting of locomotives' wheels on e.g. Polish-Russian border ?

I want names lol , yes, that was pretty unclear wasnt it.

oh well, maybe I wrote that when I was over tired. but really no excuses for me
i guess

names names give me names!! lol

not serious, not threatened if that is what you ask.

I need to seriously get with the program.. lol

The British defeated Rommel in North Africa.All this 'what if' stuff is pointless speculation.

How do you know that they wouldn't accept Germany's reign in Europe?