This documentary has flaws. Starting from the notion that the Soviet Union was not central to the conflict. World War II was fought primarily between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The documentary focuses on irrelevant battles, irrelevant notions, irrelevant objective values, irrelevant facts, irrelevant victims. Aside from the US-Japan front, where the conflict's death toll is weighted differently due to reliance on shipping, the Soviet Union stopped the Germans at Vyazma, where 400,000 people died, as opposed to 6,000 soldiers. allies who were killed or wounded at Tobruk.
Monte Cassino Heritage? The Nazi looting in Tsarskoye Selo, as in Yantarnaya Komnata, outweighs any damage done to heritage in Fascist Italy. Monte Cassino is a speck of dust.
Star: John Boyega
The Battles of Tobruk cannot be mentioned in the same documentary without mentioning the Battle of Kursk, the Battle of kyiv in both 1941 and 1943. Aside from D-Day, American and British casualties were mostly irrelevant.
The Soviet Union did not let the Warsaw uprising die. The capture of Warsaw was not essential for the Soviet Union after the massive Operation Bagration. To suggest that Stalin had bad intentions other than winning the war is wrong: the Soviet Union needed the cooperation of the local resistance to establish itself in the region. The Soviet army was in no position to attack Warsaw after Bagration: it needed time to regroup.
The massive bombing of Dresden and others by joint British and American air forces was necessary; Without the disruption of German production and railways, the Soviet Union would have stalled on its way to Berlin.
In more ways than one, Norman Bottomley's determination paves the Soviet army's path to Berlin. The massive bombing of strategic cities like Dresden is the only thing Stalin couldn't accomplish, but Churchill could. To degrade this effort in any way is to degrade the value of those who achieved it. Bomber Command did the right thing and should have done it sooner. Norman Bottomley necessarily was because he advocated destruction. If the British lived through the siege of Leningrad, there would not be a single German left after the war.
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