Re: russia vs. japan in 1941 [WAS: Re: 50% of NAZI oil..]

"Stuart Wilkes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Stuart Wilkes' mom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > I always said Stuey would never amount to anything.
>
> Add another one to the list of Mark's spiteful lies.  Really, Mark,
> you should know by now that there's no real satisfaction in that.
>
> Stuart Wilkes
>

I'm just proving my point...that you can't talk about anything unless it's
about WWII.

You are the world's most boring person.

> > "Drazen Kramaric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> > > On 23 Oct 2003 03:20:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Wilkes)
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >> What were the numbers of soldiers involved in the two campaigns
that
> > > >> you are comparing. i.e:
> > > >
> > > >Suprisingly equal, Rostyk.  I'm suprised you didn't know that.
> > >
> > > Post the numbers, then.
> > > >
> > > >> Size of armies in the west and the casualties?
> > > >
> > > >Well, the French Army alone suffered 1.9 million KIA and prisoners in
> > > >the campaign in the West, while the combined
> > > >Franco-Anglo-Belgian-Dutch armies inflicted ~27,000 KIA on the
> > > >Germans.
> > >
> > > Your numbers are correct, but do not tell the whole story. France
> > > surrendered because it had no more manpower nor space to continue the
> > > war so all their remaining soldiers went to POW camps. Had you
> > > included only POWs captured prior to cease fire the numbers would be
> > > more correct, but would represent argument against your thesis, that
> > > Red Army represented the most efficient enemy realistically possible.
> > >
> > >
> > > >In this case, the Germans faced unprepared unalerted,
peacetime-strength
> > > >Rifle Divisions (~6000 men) far from their assigned battle positions,
> >  which is one of the
> > > >advantages you get when you do a sneak attack.
> > >
> > > You are representing this as 3,000,000 German soldiers appeared out of
> > > nowehere next to the Soviet border. The primary person responsible for
> > > Red Army been caught napping is the man you feel was justified in
> > > invading Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland under the
> > > pretext of "security in case of German attack".
> > >
> > > Why don't you address that fact for a change?
> > >
> > >
> > > Drax