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Interesting animation of German invasion of Soviet Union…

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http://english.pobediteli.ru/flash.html?DR=0
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Very cool, thanks IL.
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Highly recommended! Very indepth and full of Historical information / pictures and Video.

Not the USUAL animation for sure!

Covering the full conflict in the east.

Thanks for this post!
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Himilayas
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That was really neat, very informational and well done, thank you for sharing that.
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Thanks for sharing that!
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BUMP This is cool if you have not seen it yet.
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The US opted for imperialism.

USSR was the lesser of three evils between Germany and Japan, the only reason America backed USSR. Also Japan and Germany threatened US imperialism and the US had to wait until an event like pearl harbor to appear to be the good guy.

USA opted for atrocities instead of invasion or truce in regards to Japan. The logic was, “make Japan surrender, take away their right to military, then try to offer them a right to a military when they are pro american.”

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It would be the 100 million N. Americans against only the Germans plus the “desirable” races.

The massive extinction of these other people would not take place until everything globally were settled. I think the limited nature of the extermination would not be on the grand scale until America was dealt with. I think we are assuming a level of cooperation in former UK colonies akin with the French conquests, so the level of Serbian reaction would have been somewhat mitigated by the axis partners carving up that nation and exacting the type of ethnic violence that occurred much latter. Germany had a commitment to pit old enemies against each other in an effort to make their job easier.

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If Hitler was removed, the replacement would be far worse because a NAZI victory would remove all the remaining inhibitions against violence against what they deemed lessor men. The SS would have selected somebody like Heydrich who had the most firm convictions of their type. The choice would have to be political leader, and not a military one.

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