Why European countries capitulated and the USSR stood. Surrender
On Defender of the Fatherland Day, it is worth recalling who the Russian soldier fought with and where the defenders of other fatherlands were at that time
This year we will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Victory Soviet Union in World War II. Therefore, on Defender of the Fatherland Day, it is worth recalling once again who the Russian soldier fought with and where the defenders of other fatherlands were at that time.
So it turns out that it would be more logical for many European countries to celebrate May 9 not as Victory Day in World War II, but to remember their shameful capitulation. After all, almost all of continental Europe by 1941 somehow entered the Third Reich. Of the more than two dozen European countries that existed by June 1941, nine - Spain, Italy, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and Croatia - Together with Germany and Austria entered the war against the USSR.
The rest also resisted the enemy for a short time:
Monaco - 1 day, Luxembourg - 1 day, Netherlands - 6 days, Belgium - 8 days, Yugoslavia - 12 days, Greece - 24 days, Poland - 36 days, France - 43 days, and then actually joined the aggressor and worked for his industry. Even supposedly neutral countries - Switzerland and Sweden did not stand aside. They granted fascist Germany the right to free transit of military cargo through their territory, and also received huge incomes from trade. The trade turnover of "neutral" Portugal with the Nazis was so successful that in May 1945 she declared three days of mourning in connection with the death of Hitler.But that's not all. - The national identity of all those who died in battles on the Russian front is difficult or even impossible to establish. But the composition of the military personnel taken prisoner by our army during the war is known. Germans and Austrians - 2,546,242 people; 766,901 people belonged to other nations that declared war on us: Hungarians, Romanians, Italians, Finns and others, but another 464,147 prisoners of war are French, Belgians, Czechs and representatives of other European states that did not seem to be at war with us, - gives terrible numbers of betrayal historian Vadim Kozhinov. - And while this multinational army won victories on the Russian front, Europe was, by and large, on the side of the Third Reich.
That is why, according to the recollections of the participants, during the signing of the act of surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, the head of the German delegation, Field Marshal Keitel, seeing among those present at the ceremony persons in French military uniform, could not contain his surprise: "How?! And they also defeated us, or what ?!
It is interesting what the field marshal would say today to the Europeans calling for celebrating Victory Day without Russia's participation. I would probably remind you that the Wehrmacht conquered their countries faster than a couple of houses in Stalingrad.
Let's start with the most common liberoid myth about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Liberoids and Russophobes of all stripes and colors assure us that if it were not for the Russian open spaces, where there was where to retreat, they say, there would be no victory.
The heroic resistance of our ancestors to the Nazi hordes is not considered for them, since the liberoid Vlasovites get an orgasm from the military machine of the Third Reich. “It turns out that the Europeans didn’t “shamefully” scamper away from Hitler, they just didn’t have territory to retreat to the Volga,” Eremin writes.
As for the fact that supposedly the French had nowhere to retreat - this is already a blatant lie. Just look at the map of the French campaign of the Wehrmacht and see that the French still had almost half of France. Yes, the French were defeated, but they did not lose the war on May 14, 1940. However, they shamefully surrendered, surrendering Paris without a fight. Everyone knows about the battle for Moscow, but no one has ever heard of the battle for Paris.
The Poles fought for Warsaw for almost three weeks. So, there is no justification for such a shameful surrender for the French. They could fight for every meter of their "Belle France", but did not. They could turn Paris and other cities into fortresses and fight for every house, for every brick, but they did not. They could have declared total mobilization, but they didn't. They could have joined the partisans, but they didn't. They could, after all, prostrate themselves before Moscow and beg for a second front, but they didn't.
They simply shamefully capitulated and became allies of Nazi Germany.
Yes, until the summer of 1942, France was an ally of the Third Reich, and French soldiers managed to fight and die for Germany in North Africa and Syria. Therefore, to compare the French with our ancestors, and even set frogs as an example, is already complete disgusting and blasphemy.
And what about the French "draped" from the Germans? What did they do at Dunkirk? Instead of digging in and turning Dunkirk into a defensive bridgehead, which would be defended by the British fleet and aircraft, this, not to mention the sea supply of the Dunkirk bridgehead, 18 French divisions simply fled to England.
Can you imagine how the Soviet divisions, instead of defending Leningrad, would have taken and fled to neutral Sweden? I cannot, but the French did just that, leaving their country under the heel of the German occupiers.
Here it should be said where such an increase in the motorization of the Wehrmacht comes from. And here the Germans should say "thank you" to the frogs. Müller-Hillebrandt writes:
“As a temporary way out, captured cars began to be used in large numbers, which, however, made it even more difficult to repair vehicles. In addition, cars from French automobile factories were used in significant quantities. But this also could not solve the problem, since the French motor vehicles, as a rule, did not meet the requirements that were imposed on motor vehicles by roads in the East.
At least 88 infantry divisions, 3 motorized infantry divisions and 1 tank division were equipped mainly with French and captured vehicles.
Gasoline for the attack on the USSR Germany was also provided by the French. "The victory over France paid off many times over. The Germans found sufficient oil reserves in the storage facilities for the battle for England and for the first major campaign in Russia. And the collection of occupation costs from France ensured the maintenance of an army of 18 million people," the British historian writes. Taylor in World War II. That is, half of the Wehrmacht was supported by French money.
Knowing such facts, a Russian person in the direction of the French can have only one reaction - a contemptuous spit. Not only did the French shamefully give up their homeland German fascists, but even before 1944 dutifully worked, financed and fought on the side of Germany. But from the point of view of the Vlasovites, the despicable frogs deserve respect much more than our ancestors, who fought, retreated, but did not give up, even when captured.
But few people know that the war did not end there.
Decree " On the termination of the state of war between the Soviet Union and Germany"The USSR signed only 10 years after the surrender of Nazi Germany, on January 25, 1955. What happened 58 years ago, and why did the history books bypass this date? We talked about this with Dr. historical sciences Yuri Zhukov.
"STALIN INSISTED ON UNITED GERMANY"
Quite right!
Do not confuse, this is Victory Day. In fact, with the surrender of Germany on May 8, the war with the use of weapons, when they kill without asking the permission of lawyers, ended. And in January 1955, the legal and diplomatic state of the war ended.
- But why did you have to wait almost 10 years for the signing of a peace treaty?
This is a historical and diplomatic incident. But first things first... While the war was going on, at the Tehran, Yalta and even Potsdam conferences, the agreement of the three great powers - the USSR, the USA and Great Britain - was reached on the fate of Germany. And for a very long time, it was difficult to discuss the question of how this country will continue to exist - single state or apart. Stalin insisted on maintaining a unified German state, demilitarized and neutral.
Why did he need it?
He remembered what happened after Versailles. The French occupied the Rhine zone, and in 1923 they occupied the Ruhr, the Poles seized Mountainous Silesia, part of West Prussia ... This led to revanchism, the desire to restore what was lost and, as a result, to the emergence of fascism. And Stalin, unlike the French and the British, remembered it too well. However, Churchill and Roosevelt insisted all the time on the division of Germany. Then the French also intervened, who generally capitulated in 1940, collaborated with the Germans, including sending their soldiers to the Eastern Front. France wanted to wrest the Rhine zone from Germany, creating a "security buffer" for itself. Plus, they also dreamed of the Saar region - a powerful coal basin - either to annex this zone to France, or to create an independent state there.
"AMERICANS HAVE A CLEAN POLITICS"
- And what was the reason for the British to saw Germany?
Great Britain was very weakened during the war and lived off the aid of the United States. She understood that on the continent itself strong country after the war there was only the USSR, and it was scary. But in London they got used to the system of European balance, so that there are two sides, so that no one prevails, and they, the British, would habitually be “chief judges”. And under these conditions, in 1946, they insisted on the dismemberment of Germany in order to create at least two states on the territory of their zone. The British wanted to gain a foothold in this zone as powerfully as possible.
- And the Americans?
The Americans pursued an even more cunning policy. They decided to become the "fathers of democracy" for Germany. Already in the 46th, in their occupied zone, they held local elections and a monetary reform, a Western mark appeared, which later became the Deutschmark. In addition, in July 1948, three of our former allies went to their zones to create a parliamentary council. Finally, in 1949, a constitution was adopted there, and elections to the Bundestag were held. And the German government was formed, headed by Konrad Adenauer. The USSR had no choice but to create the GDR in its zone. Nevertheless, Moscow continued to hope for a united Germany. And we did everything possible for this. And in May 1953, we even managed to agree!
“The PRESIDENT OF THE FRG PROVOKED A COUP IN THE SOVIET ZONE"
- So why didn't the world see a united Germany then?
And then what happened was what Konrad Adenauer described in his memoirs, which were also published in our country. He was mortally afraid of the union. Because he understood: then his Christian Democratic Union party, which had power only in the Rhine zone, would lose its majority. Fear of political competition. And he provoked the same rebellion on July 13, 1953 in Berlin, which is given out today by the mythologisers of history as "a popular expression of will against the Soviet occupation."
- Maybe there really was a rebellion "from below"?
Read his memoirs! He directly admits that the "mutiny" was completely organized and controlled by him! And then everything is known: we had to bring in tanks against the so-called strikers, there were dead ... Adenauer calculated everything: he took advantage of the suppression of this putsch to discredit the USSR and convinced London and Washington not to agree to unification agreements.
In January 1955, it became completely clear to us that it would not be possible to reach an agreement. Then we took this amazing move: declare an end to the state of war with Germany (without specifying which one), recognize the GDR as a sovereign state and allow the East Germans to create their own army. That same decree appeared in January, and in February we also recognized the FRG.
“WE DID NOT START THE DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY!”
- That is, it was not we who split Germany?
Normal chronology shows that the first "meow" was said in the West. Of course, if Roosevelt had not died in April 1945, if Attlee had not become British Prime Minister instead of Churchill, perhaps everything would have gone differently. Because this great trio - Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt - they would agree. And instead of them, weaklings came, each of whom bent his own. Our desire to quickly dismantle and take the enterprises to the USSR in exchange for what we lost was estimated by the Americans as a robbery. At that time, they themselves hunted for patents and for intellectuals - German engineers, rocket scientists.
But we built the Berlin Wall... And Gorbachev repented that we separated brothers and sisters for decades...
Excuse me, but the facts show who started this section after all! The Berlin Wall was built by the same idiots who built the wall between Mexico and the United States, Egypt and Israel. If they accuse us, then they should be treated like this.
"PRISONERS DO NOTHING"
Some amateur historians believe that we were deliberately at war for so long in order not to release the German prisoners of war who were restoring the destroyed ...
This is not entirely true. The decree was not signed for so long, not because of them, as I said. Prisoners are a side effect. Although due to this circumstance, many of them remained in the Union, restoring the economy.
- But why did this date go around in the history books? Even in Soviet...
Because it happened in 1955, already in the period of Khrushchev - the beginning of the mythologization of our past - it was not before that. After all, Khrushchev himself walked under the sword of Damocles of accusations of mass repressions. Documents have long been published, how the first secretaries asked for the right to shoot "enemies of the people" without trial and investigation, and how many to shoot, they also indicated. So, in second place in this “rating” is Comrade Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Moscow City and Regional Committees of the Party. In 1937, he found about 20 thousand fists in the Moscow region. Where did they come from in such numbers, because dispossession was over long ago? .. When he was sent to Kyiv in 1938, in the very first telegram from there he asked for permission to sign the execution of 20 thousand people. And having seized power, he completely shifted the blame to Stalin, trying to whitewash his name in history ...
HELP "KP"
Russia does not have a peace treaty only with Japan
Today, Japan remains the only country that does not have a peace treaty with Russia. It's all about territorial claims: after the war with Japan, the USSR took possession of the Kuril Islands, which were previously part of Russian Empire. In 1956, the Moscow Declaration was signed, according to which we pledged to return the island of Shikotan and the Habomai group of islands to the Japanese, after which a peace treaty was to be signed. However, the Japanese demanded that the USSR, in addition to them, also return Kunashir with Iturup, to which Soviet side didn't go. Disputes are still ongoing.
BY THE WAY
Churchill prepared to attack the USSR in 1945
In 1998, the plans for Operation Unthinkable, developed by the British government under the personal supervision of Winston Churchill, were declassified. According to documents, Great Britain planned on 1 July 1945 to launch a surprise attack on Red Army units in the Dresden area. For this, 47 Anglo-American divisions were kept in combat readiness. The piquancy of this story is given by the fact that it was planned to use 10 German divisions in the attack on the USSR. The operation was not implemented only because the new US President Harry Truman refused to participate in it.
It is well known that we have a useless leadership, no army and stupid generals.
This is especially often written estorigis and journalists about the Great Patriotic War.
I came across materials on the theme of the heroic resistance of the wonderful European states, their wise governments, brave armies and smart generals.
There will be nothing new in my post - a boring statement of facts.
So civilized Europeans heroically fought the Third Reich, that's how much:
Poland - 36 days (09/01/1939 - 10/06/1939)
Norway - 63 days (04/09/1940 - 06/10/1940)
Denmark - 1 day (04/09/1940)
Belgium - 8 days (05/10/1940 - 05/17/1940)
Luxembourg - 1 day (05/10/1940)
Netherlands - 6 days (05/10/1940 - 05/15/1940)
France - 43 days (05/10/1940 - 06/22/1940)
Yugoslavia - 12 days (04/06/1941 - 04/17/1941)
Greece - 24 days (04/06/1941 - 04/29/1941)
[Crete operation - 13 days (05/20/1941 - 06/02/1941)]
At the same time, the reader can easily notice that at the same time the Wehrmacht, for example, fought in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, then in Greece and Yugoslavia, that is, it cannot be said that the ENTIRE Wehrmacht fought against the same France.
I should especially note that the brave military, even in this organized drain of Europe into Hitler's pocket, at the very least, does not look like it's completely lousy - they tried to fight. But the wise European governments showed themselves quite nasty - starting with the Polish leaders, who immediately fled from Warsaw, and soon from Poland (September 17, 1940, in the manner of Ostap Bender, crossing the Romanian border), leaving the still struggling country and liquidating thus the Polish state.
With this, the proud gentry particularly surprised even the Germans, and the Polish troops did not surrender centrally, as it would be in a normal state - but as they put it on their souls. Because at that time the Polish state simply did not exist. That is why the introduction of Soviet troops into the ownerless territory, no matter what various scoundrels and paid liars say, was not an invasion of the Polish Republic. There was no Polish Republic. There were territories with a population. And not only Poles, but, for example, Ukrainians and Belarusians - those who lived in Russian territories, that the Poles chopped off from Russia in 1920. And yes Soviet troops stood on the very Curzon Line, which was defined as the border between Poland and Russia as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. That is why the USSR did not declare war neither England nor France. The hyena of Europe died ingloriously and shamefully. What is very characteristic - the love of capitulations in the blood of the Polish gentry remained further. Having unleashed the Warsaw Uprising, which was completely idiotic in design and mediocre in execution, only to annoy the Russians, the gentry immediately surrendered to the Germans. And the Germans liquidated Warsaw, and the population also got pretty bad. Well, yes, the gentry never worried about the troubles of the cattle.
General Friedrich Eberhardt accepts the surrender of Danzig.
A representative of the Polish command and a representative of the German command during the surrender ceremony of the Warsaw garrison
Negotiations of an officer of the Polish garrison on the surrender of Lvov.
General Tomme with General Alolf Strauss discussing the terms of Maudlin's surrender
Polish prisoners of war surrender their weapons 1939
Polish General Tadeusz "Bur" Komorowski shakes hands with SS-Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski after signing the surrender of the Warsaw insurgents, 1944. 20,000 soldiers, led by the commander of the Home Army and officers of his headquarters, surrendered.
Handsome gentleman. Looking at Komorowski's face, you see a rogue and a useless person. And only the Poles have such shit in their leadership.
Proudly and adamantly, the Home Army marches into captivity. It will be great to keep them there - and under the supervision of the Red Cross. But the "Army of People" Komorowski and his gentry deliberately liquidated, having bargained for the right to be kept as combatants only for AK. Type there are rebels - AK, and there are bandits AL. You can fight together, but how to capitulate is only for your own. And let the Germans slaughter AL, the gentry don't care about cattle.
For the idiotic trick of the proud gentry, the Germans punished Warsaw like this:
As a result, having handed over Poland to Hitler, the brave Europeans presented the Fuhrer with weapons for a millionth army, equipment, food, horse-drawn and automobile transport, tanks, planes, the industry of the whole country. And the same thing happened with the rest of the arsenals of Europe and British weapons. Therefore, the discovery of English or Canadian or French shells and cartridges in the German location is by no means an invention of wild diggers. The same for weapons, the same for transport. Everything received by the Germans was prudently used against us.
The Warsaw garrison laid down their arms.
More Polish trophies
The Danish government and bystanders are peacefully watching the German aggression. April 10, 1940
After the signing of the surrender of the Dutch army, the Dutch general Winkelmann leaves the Schulhaus building in Rotterdam, 1940.
Residents of Amsterdam greet incoming German troops, 1940
Belgium. Surrender Belgian army. German and Belgian parliamentarians in the Belgian Main Military Apartment, 1940
Belgium. Surrender of British troops, 1940
By June 7, 1940, the British, French and Polish expeditionary forces left Norway. On the same day, King Haakon VII and the government of Norway fled to Britain. On June 9, Norway signed a surrender.
King Haakon VII and the Norwegian government in exile. London, 1940. In general, it is interesting that the USSR is already being blamed for the Kuusinen government for so long. But in Britain there were alternate governments for any European country - and Queen Wilhelmina and other Poles, Czechs, Greeks and so on. Thrifty people - the British.
On June 22, 1940, the French delegation, headed by General Huntziger, was forced to announce the defeat of their country and capitulation in the war with Germany.
The coastline at Dunkirk. 100,000 French and 200,000 British soldiers waiting for ships to escape from german army across the English Channel, May 1940. Officially, this operation was called "Dynamo". british army 84,500 motor vehicles had to be abandoned in France, as well as 2,500 field guns, 77,000 tons of ammunition and 165,000 tons of fuel.
SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich discusses with British officers the terms of surrender in Greece.
A German paratrooper looks at a pile of captured weapons captured in Corinth.
Abandoned British tanks in Crete.
While collecting material, I found a pretentious English article stating that it is impossible to say that "the whole of Europe" worked for Hitler !!! A lot of people worked for freedom and against Hitler!!!
I copy the table from there. That's how many people from Europe worked against Hitler while in England. Honor and glory to them, of course. Only now, 500 thousand Polish employees of railway communications, who in 1941 ensured the supply of troops and equipment to the borders of the USSR and beyond for the Wehrmacht - and ahead of the proposed schedules - greatly exceed all these guys in England.
Country Navy Personnel Army Personnel Air Force Personnel Total
France 2,750 1,080 350 4,180
Poland 1,750 17,450 8,500 27,700
Holland 2,400 1,570 270 4,240
Czechoslovakia 0 3,470 1,250 4,720
Norway 1,000 1,410 3 2,413
Belgium 0 780 165 945
For reference, the number of prisoners of war after the Second World War in the USSR.
Nationality Total number of prisoners
Germans 2.389.560
Japanese 639.635
Hungarians 513.767
Romanians 187.370
Austrians 156.682
Czechs and Slovaks 69.977
Poles 60.280
Italians 48.957
French 23.136
Yugoslavs 21.822
Moldovans 14.129
Chinese 12.928
Jews 10.173
Koreans 7.785
Dutch 4.729
Mongols 3.608
Finns 2.377
Belgians 2.010
Luxembourgers 1.652
Danes 457
Spaniards 452
Gypsies 383
Norwegians 101
Swedes 72
In my opinion, it is enough to compare the number of captured French, Poles and other Czechs who fought on the side of Hitler with those who fought against - in order not to be embarrassed by this issue anymore. Unless there are more Norwegians in the English army. than prisoners of war in the USSR. It just needs to be taken into account. that not everyone was captured. Some died or went home wounded.
And why all this howl about "they filled up with corpses", "we won in spite of" and other squeals?
Yes, everything is very simple. The victory of 1945 is our Victory, but not the victory of the other European integrators, who were already going to have a hearty meal on the new colonized lands - but for some reason they broke their teeth.
The Czechs, who to the last produced frames and hatzers for the Wehrmacht - why should they rejoice? Why are the French happy? And even more so - why should the Germans rejoice. which not only failed to prove their Aryanness to the world, but also to this day are an occupied dependent country?
They really want us to be ashamed of the fact that we made a face of the colonialists and robbers and did not become a new Congo or a crippled India.
Therefore, I finish a short reference - here are these photos.
What is characteristic - the killed defender of Berlin has either a Czech or a Polish Mauser - the handle on the bolt is not bent.
Berg Doc Nikolai
About lecturer
Shubin Alexander Vladlenovich - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Center for the History of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus of the Institute of World History Russian Academy Sciences.
Lecture plan
1. The failure of the Moscow negotiations and the Soviet-German pact.
2. The beginning of the Second World War and the participation of the USSR in the division of the Polish state.
3. Soviet-Finnish war.
4. Accession of the Baltic countries and Moldova to the USSR.
5. The growth of Soviet-German contradictions.
6. Soviet strategic planning and the Barbarossa plan.
7. What did not take into account Stalin and the Soviet command?
annotation
The lecture is dedicated foreign policy and military-strategic planning of the USSR in 1939-1941. When the policy of "collective security" failed, the USSR went for a rapprochement with Germany, which led to the conclusion of the Non-Aggression Pact and the division of spheres of influence between the USSR and Germany.
In the context of the outbreak of World War II, the Soviet leadership, seeking to strengthen the western borders of the USSR, took advantage of the situation to expand the territory of the USSR. It included the Western parts of Ukraine and Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Moldova. The attempt to occupy Finland was unsuccessful and led to a bloody Soviet-Finnish war. After the defeat of France and the establishment of German domination in Western Europe, the contradictions between Germany and the USSR began to intensify, these states were preparing for a military clash in deep secret.
The Soviet leadership, preparing for a clash with Germany, underestimated the adventurism of Hitler and his generals and misjudged Germany's plans to start the war. This was the main reason for the defeats of the Red Army in the initial period of the war.
Questions on the topic of the lecture
1. For whom was the campaign of the Red Army in the autumn of 1939 a liberation campaign, and for whom was it not? Why?
2. Why do you think Great Britain and France declared war on Germany in response to the attack on Poland, but did not declare war on the USSR in response to the entry of troops into the eastern part of the Polish state?
3. What were the reasons for the Soviet-Finnish war?
4. Could the Baltic countries provide military resistance to the USSR like Finland?
5. Why do you think Stalin did not hold important government posts in the USSR until 1941?
6. Why did the Soviet leadership, who understood the danger of a clash with Germany, agree to the liquidation of the states that separated the USSR and Germany, which brought the Nazi army closer to the borders of the Soviet Union?
7. Why did the direction of the strikes of the German troops in June 1941 turn out to be unexpected for the Soviet command?
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