Tu204 From Russia, joined Mar 2006, 907 posts, RR: 19 Posted (6 years 12 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1212 times:
At 4:45 in the morning Nazi forces launched a suprise attack without the declaration of war on the Soviet Union along the entire western border of the USSR starting what would last 3 years and 11 months and cost millions of lives, many of them civilian.
I do not dream about movie stars, they must dream about me for I am real and they are not. - Alexander Popov
Ariis From Poland, joined Sep 2004, 417 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (6 years 12 months 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1187 times:
After Nazi Germany and USSR had launched combined surprise attack on Poland in 1939, you can't expect much pity on the event you mentioned, at least not from Poles.
FAO
P.S.: I don't want to start a flame war about who did what in the past, but your post sounded so dramatic, that I couldn't resist.
Doona From Sweden, joined Feb 2005, 3716 posts, RR: 14 Reply 2, posted (6 years 12 months 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1180 times:
Quoting Ariis (Reply 1): After Nazi Germany and USSR had launched combined surprise attack on Poland in 1939, you can't expect much pity on the event you mentioned, at least not from Poles.
I'm sure the finns won't feel a whole lot of compassion either...
Finlands sak aer vaar!
Cheers
Mats
[Edited 2006-06-22 12:47:52]
Sure, we're concerned for our lives. Just not as concerned as saving 9 bucks on a roundtrip to Ft. Myers.
NWOrientDC10 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 1389 posts, RR: 4 Reply 6, posted (6 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1070 times:
Quoting Aeroflot777 (Reply 5): Quoting HAWK21M (Reply 4):
WW2 was a bad occassion.Hopefully there is never a Third ever.
Cadet57 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 9081 posts, RR: 34 Reply 7, posted (6 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1061 times:
Quoting HAWK21M (Reply 4): WW2 was a bad occassion.Hopefully there is never a Third ever.
Oldman55 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1517 posts, RR: 38 Reply 8, posted (6 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1056 times:
Quoting HAWK21M (Reply 4): WW2 was a bad occassion.Hopefully there is never a Third ever.
regds
Yes Lets all hope and pray this 'war on terror" dosen,t go down that road
too bad most of us get too soon old and too late smart
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12735 posts, RR: 79 Reply 11, posted (6 years 11 months 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1002 times:
The Nazi high command called it 'Operation Bararossa', Hitler referred to it as a 'war of annihilation'.
It would include the 'prototyping' of genocide by the 'Einszatgruppen', by bullets, then exhausts re-directed to the back of a truck, on a path leading to the death camps.
27 million dead at it's end.
Stalin was lucky to survive the first few months, he had refused to believe the intel on German preparations, he had purged half of the officer corps a few years before.
The Eastern front was the worst example of 'total war' in WW2.
The epic sieges at Stalingrad and Leningrad, the beginning of the end of the Wermacht at Kursk.
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