Don’t siege Leningrad, take it immediately
just take Leningrad immediately but also “zurge rush” (lmao) Stalingrad at the same time. Like yeah okay I’m sure the Nazis (famous for Blitzkrieg not close combat) can handle two of the most intense urban warfare battles at once hundreds of kilometers apart without getting their ass owned.
taking Stalingrad wouldn’t even cut off the oil either the Soviets had made preparations to ship Caucasian oil across the Caspian Sea to Astrakhan to keep the military fueled. It would have been awfully inefficient logistically but they would have been able to do it.
The Soviets weren’t going to let them have the Caucasus oil either. There were comprehensive plans to destroy the oil infrastructure if that area was ever lost.
definitely! Our armchair general up there probably doesn’t know that the reason the Nazis didn’t “zurge rush” Stalingrad was because they were busy with most of their forces trying to rush the Caucasus oil fields before the Soviets sabotaged them! Stalingrad was a secondary objective until Hitler became desperate for a major symbolic victory that year after the Nazis stalled in the Caucasus mountains.
Know what I’m doing today, and it’s watching more Soviet Storm, the Russian eastern front documentary. Really cuts through the BS the west thinks happened there, and guess what? It isn’t just slavs fucking around in front of glorious aryans, it’s a functional and capable military machine that ends up heroically destroying fascism almost single handedly
If only the German army didn’t act at all like the German army.
It’s fucking ridiculous that they’ll do all sorts of work to pretend that Germany was so close to victory. Like no. They were arrogant and obsessed with aesthetics. They went into Russia with pretty jackets and got wrecked. They couldn’t manage supply chains and got wrecked. They couldn’t strategize in battle and got wrecked.
They epitomized the dead-end that is fascism and people will still crawl out of the woodworks to defend them.
One small detail where I think this is reflected is in the squad doctrine: pretty much the entire rifle swuad was just there to protect and supply the machine gun, this slick high tech device that will easily mow down the mindless slavic zerg rush. The fact that they usually just got outflanked and killed would appear to refute this view.
Ally with the Slavs against the commies
“Hey Stepan, I know I called you and your people subhuman, but c’mon man… there’s communists and they’re bad…so…”
Ally with the Slavs against the commies
“Hey Stepan, I know I called you and your people subhuman, but c’mon man… there’s communists and they’re bad…so…”
This is actually the least ridiculous part because Eastern European fascists constantly go for this reasoning lmao. :wonder-who-thats-for:
focus on RAF facilities
- britain had radar before the nazis
- the raf turned every flat bit of ground into an airstrip
- easier to bomb a city than a random field in the middle of nowhere
- those airstrips had aa guns and, you know, fighters in them
Pretty much the entirety of alt-history requires people to just be absolute baby-brains
That or magic
