Battle of Moscow

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Sources:

Lawrence Rees, Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War, PublicAffairs 2021

Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography, The Belknap Press, 2005.

David Stahel, Operation Typhoon: Hitler's March on Moscow, October 1941, Cambridge University Press 2013.

David Stahel, The Battle for Moscow, Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945, Basic Books 2015.

Armchair Team Credits:

[TheArmchairHistorian]

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[jadeorbigoso]

You can't expect someone to surrender if you literally named your war to them as " War of Annihilation"

[yetanotherwarhammernerd]

How dare YouTube hide this from me for 3 minutes

[cobalt_emperor]

North Africa, Pacfic War, Western Front: Hard difficulty

Eastern front: nightmare mode

[MissileStrikeProductions]

9:40 Historically accurate battle of Moscow

[martialartsNerd]

I just know a Sabaton fan is going to quote the lyrics to their Moscow song eventually.

[joaoborges]

Even if Hitler had captured Moscow, that victory most probably wouldn't have handed him the war, as Napoleon's spirit could have told him upon his visit to L'Empereur's tomb, in 1940...

[KO-sxuy]

That the Soviets would destroy Berlin only 4 years later was prob unimaginable to the Germans

[jacobfrost]

There is legend that Zhukov critisised Stalin a lot (he was one of the few people who could afford this) and they had a big quarrel after the fall of Kiev. That time Zhukov was a Chef of JCS, and Stalin said:"I don't need a chef who critisises me" and Zhukov answered and "than i'll be not".
In fact putting him as field marshal was like a punishment. He was lowered in occupation, not to mention that the task he was ordered with was almost impossible: to stop the enemy who has conquered the Europe and almost destroyed the whole Red Army.
And against all odds Zhukov succeseded.

[neilhannan]

Everyone remembers the battle of Stalingard and the siege of Lenningrad but not that many remember the Battle of Moscow where brave soldiers fought to defend their homeland fighting for 3 months 5 days and losing 60'000 to 1'600'000 men dying for their families friends and lives

[satyamrajrawat]

12:42 borodino is also the place where Napoleon took heavy casualty during russian invasion and it was the turning point.

[Nfsbelka]

My grand-grandfather, Andrei Il'ych perished in the Vyaz'ma forests 7:29 in November during Defence of Moscow
His son, my grandfather, that time a little 7 year-old boy with two brothers, told me once how he saw his father for the last time.
It was middle July 1941, near Smolensk, in his small hometown of Duhovschina.
The German troops were rapidly approaching Smolensk, the "gate of Moscow", as it was called ever since Napoleon wars.
Civilian women, children and elders were rushing out of Duhovschina, while lacking manpower Red Army units and people's militia were taking positions in the nearby approaches of the town
It was a total mess
His father, me grand-grandfather, who was a local man and grew up there, shortly before that just volunteerely enlisted as a soldier and was given an anti-tank rifle. At that morning he was eagerly rushing his wife and children, including my future grandfather, to settle up on the wooden cart, driven by an old horse.
He hugged my grandfather, his brothers and mom, tightly for the last time in their lives.
After the children were seated, he ran up to the horse, slapped it hard on the rump and shouted "Go!"
Then he turned away and never look back, running towards his positions, which were only a hundred meters away as our family's house was on the western edge of that smalltown
As my little grandfather was watching his father running away with anti-tank gun on the shoulder, he saw how in the distance, about 3 km away, from behind the western forest, the German panzers appeared and were slowly moving towards the town
We always believed that my grand-grandfather died right at that particular battle, but in 2021 I looked up for the archives, and found out he survived that battle and fought up until November 1941, where he eventually went missing somewhere in Vyaz'ma deep forests, maybe in encirclement
Many say that winter prevented Hitler from capturing Moscow, but if were not for heroic defense of Smolensk in the summer of 1941, the Wehrmacht could have reached Soviet Union's capital much earlier, and perhaps would have managed to take it

By the way, I think that German casualties in battle of Moscow are being constantly lowered
If Wehrmacht lost only 250.000-400.000 out of 2 million men of Army Center, as it claimed by West, while all Red Army lost from 600.000 to 1.3 million (from also total 2 million on that front, which was also not all-at-once amount), it means that after the battle it would be still 1.400.000 – 1.750.000 Wehrmacht soldiers against only 400.000-700.000 Soviets. With such claimed ratio of casualties Germans could easily destroy the remnants of Soviet troops, moreover it would mean that Germans won. But in fact, that didn't happen. So, logically, it seems to me a little bit nonsense

[Sun-Tzu-]

When talking about the Russian winter, why do people only ever think it affected the Germans? It has been widely accepted that the roll the winter played on helping the Soviets on the Eastern Front has been greatly exaggerated.

[mikeFolco]

The production quality is impressive. Engaging writing. Slick graphics. Very good.

[jadeorbigoso]

Another factor why Moscow didnt fall is that Soviet troops didn't suffer from the lack of supplies

[BlenderisedMind]

Massive props to the artist(s) who do such amazing work on these!

[jasperoliger]

My great grandfather fought in the Pacific, and if you asked him who saw the worst combat during the war, he'd always say "oh the Soviets for sure", every damn time! Lol let that sink The man fought DEEPLY entrenched Japanese fanatics, in a brutal island to island campaign.... And he always said he was better off than "those poor commies on the western front"

[zanzillavids]

Can u do a video on the fall of Singapore or Hong Kong cos those were Britain's most embarassing defeats

[StrLab]

Even if Germans seized Moscow, it would mean nothing. The Soviet people would still fight them and would never surrender.
What did Napoleon get from capturing Moscow?
As Mustafa Kemal Ataturk said "We will fight in the front of Ankara, in Ankara, behind the Ankara", answering the question on what he will do if the Greeks capture Ankara. (I am Greek still waiting for Armchair Historian to cover some parts of our 1.000 years of conflict between our noble people!!)

[xBGL]

My grand-grand father was shot during the Battle for Moscow he survived but his health was really bad and he died in 1947. Also, it would be cool to have some info on lend-lease in this video too, but I think I saw about it in another video on this channel.