tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post6666823690766982200..comments2024-03-28T13:30:14.573-07:00Comments on CanSpeccy: Why I don't buy Uri Avnery's "Israel will not attack Iran"CShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03399620869685840906noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post-45817222432646211682011-11-17T21:22:55.628-08:002011-11-17T21:22:55.628-08:00And the reason 2-month's delay in the assault ...And the reason 2-month's delay in the assault on Moscow made German defeat inevitable is that it compelled the Germans to fight in temperatures of -20 to -30 C without winter clothing and without suitable lubricants for their tanks and armored vehicles. In addition, it gave Stalin time to assemble vast reinforcements from Siberia and the Far East.CShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399620869685840906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post-33631364990104805762011-11-17T19:38:24.771-08:002011-11-17T19:38:24.771-08:00But, yes, on August 12, 1941, when Hitler issued D...But, yes, on August 12, 1941, when Hitler issued Directive 34, diverting Army Group South to the Ukraine thereby delaying the final assault on Moscow by two months, the German Army Group Centre occupied Smolensk, which is 229 miles from Moscow. So the Germans were more than the day's march that I indicated (now corrected), although for armored troops, they were only several days march from Moscow under favorable summer conditions as prevailed at the time the advance was halted.CShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399620869685840906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post-47926780613268109732011-11-17T18:00:05.467-08:002011-11-17T18:00:05.467-08:00I believe I had the key historical fact straight t...I believe I had the key historical fact straight to begin with.<br /><br />"... in the first weeks of the invasion the German successes were such that the over-confident Hitler decided to occupy the rich Ukraine in the South even before taking Moscow, the heart of Russia. To do so he ordered [a halt] to the advance of army group "Center" on Moscow and to give its two tank armies to army groups "North" and "South".<br /><br />"After spending more than a month on this diversion, in September 6th 1941 Hitler realized that he was running out of time in his race to defeat Russia before winter..." <a href="http://www.2worldwar2.com/when-hitler-lost.htm" rel="nofollow">Source</a><br /><br />In fact, he had run out of time, the result being, as I described "the most pitiless, bloody, long-drawn-out retreat and defeat in the history of total war."CShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399620869685840906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post-58838691533260397032011-11-17T14:58:56.994-08:002011-11-17T14:58:56.994-08:00your comment - 'Consider Hitler, for example, ...your comment - 'Consider Hitler, for example, on the brink of a historic victory, ordering his army to halt within a day's march of Moscow'<br /><br />I no more a fan of that murderous brute Stalin that I am of Hitler's, but lets get our history straight - The german army was stopped before Moscow because the red army stopped it (with some help from mud and oncoming winter) and not because Hitler ordered it to stop. Roderick RussellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post-86277899767705709392011-11-16T17:27:37.460-08:002011-11-16T17:27:37.460-08:00PR, Thanks for the compliment.
But I have to adm...PR, Thanks for the compliment. <br /><br />But I have to admit <a href="http://www.fredoneverything.net/Romney.shtml" rel="nofollow">Fred</a> is a lot better.CShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03399620869685840906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867260065662559631.post-47898580222700976882011-11-16T15:40:44.283-08:002011-11-16T15:40:44.283-08:00That article is hot right now on WRH.
I think the ...That article is hot right now on WRH.<br />I think the people there like your writing style.<br />Go..Cat Go... You are getting hot...<br />Soon you will see your link on other peoples sites.poorrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096noreply@blogger.com