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Originally Posted by RN7
So are you implying that the Soviets (and the Germans) lied about the Eastern Front in the Second World War, and that we should discount the forces listed as being present in the campaigns and battles on the Eastern Front and the casualty rates incurred during them?
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You seem hell bent on telling me that I said things that I most patently did not say.
I mentioned
nothing about whether the Germans lied about their experiences on the Eastern Front at all,
ever,
anywhere.
As for the Soviets lying. Have you
read Glantz and other, less well known, post-89 historians of the Eastern Front?
Did the Soviets dissembled, obfuscate, mislead, misdirect, fabricate and outright lie about much of what actually happened on the Eastern Front and in Russia during the war?
Hell yes.
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Originally Posted by RN7
And what should we make of the naval losses statistics during the battle of the Atlantic?
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Um. That the U-Boats, overall,
weren't sinking enough tonnage to exceed the build/repair rate? Or not until the US entered and insisted that Convoys weren't necessary? And that even the US were eventually forced to realise that they actually were?
And that thereafter the losses dropped back way below dangerous levels?
Yep. That would cover it.
Phil