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Why Hitler invaded Russia? And why Stalin procrastinated in his counter-offensive?
Posted on: June 2, 2013
Why Hitler invaded Russia? And why Stalin procrastinated in his counter-offensive?
Stalin knew that Hitler is preparing a military aggression on Russia since February 1941, and he knew the exact date June 22 from various sources, including Churchill and Roosevelt personally.
Stalin knew that the war with Germany is inevitable: All he wanted was a delay of 6 more months to be ready and move his troops from the far eastern front.
In the meantime, Stalin signed a peace treaty with Japan: He will be able to move 400,000 troops from the eastern front.
Most of the heavy industries and military factories were relocated to the Ural, midway from both fronts
And Stalin was apprehensive that Churchill might be behind inciting Hitler to attack Russia in order to relieve England and its colonies overseas.
Thus, Stalin did his best to order his armies never to challenge any German violation of Russia air space or even to counter minor German incursions into Russia territory… In fact, the Nazi armies were already waging war deep inside Russia for three days, and the orders to the Russian officers were to retreat and not challenge the German armies: Stalin wanted to believe that Hitler will stop further incursions as he gets convinced that Stalin has no plans for any aggression against Germany…
Germany wanted more wheat and more oil for its war machine, and wanted all these increased supplies on credit, as the US was dealing with England. And the Ukraine was the grain basket and the Caucasus the main sources for all kinds of energy.
Actually, the central German armies could have easily entered Moscow byOctober, but Hitler wanted first to occupy Kiev (Ukraine) and Rostov (Caucasus) before encircling Moscow. By the time Moscow was encircled, it was too later, and the brutal Russian winter took the German armies by surprise: They were not equipped for this kind of winter and mud… and winter supplies were not forthcoming…
Hitler ultimate objective was to be the sole dominant power in Continental Europe, including Russia. England, Japan and the US can split the other parts of the world overseas.
Hitler knew that his main potential enemy is Stalin: another dictator who can single-handedly decides on invading Germany and a vast country, almost self-sufficient in all kinds of foodstuff and raw materials.
And Stalin had already massacred 30,000 of his best officers in the purge and was dealing with a disorganized army. For Hitler it was now or never.
Actually, the orders to invade Russia were set to be on May 15, but the attack was delayed till June 22 because about 700,000 German troops were forced to get engaged in Yugoslavia and ready to pounce on the Balkans countries of Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria.
The only worry of Hitler from the USA was to transforming England into a vast land airplane carrier, at striking distance of Germany…
Hitler dispatched 3 million troops and supported by 700,000 troops from Rumania and Hungary… About 120 divisions.
Two months into the war, Gen. Halder, the highest in command then, wrote:
“Back home, they loaded us with all kinds of crap. We believed the Russians could barely engage 100 divisions. By the time we wipe out 10 divisions, the Russians dispatch 10 fresh divisions… ” The Russians could engage 300 division by the time Moscow was encircled.
Stalin had to submit to the same reality when Russia attacked Mao Tse Tong armies in the early 1950’s: As one million not well armed Chinese troops were wiped out by the Soviet armies, Mao dispatched another fresh one million soldiers
Consequently, capturing Russia and exterminating the educated Russians would desist the US from entering the war alongside England. And Russia would be a vast reserve of cheap labor and raw material…
For 6 months, Hitler main concern was to train and indoctrinate entire divisions of SS to exterminate all the Russians, civilians and prisoners. As he told the high officers in the armies: ” International laws on war do not apply this time around. All the Russians under occupation have to be exterminated, villages burned…”
And the Russian counter-offensive reacted in the same manner.
A textbook war of extermination.
Note: For more details https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/why-hitler-invaded-russia-cycle-closing-in-again/
Horrors of the Longest March of: Mao’s communists retreat in 1935
It is Oct. 20, 1935. The Chinese communist party of Mao Tse Tong (The Chinese Red Army) is seriously attacked by the Nationalist forces of Chang Kai-Chek (Kuomintang) and is about to be wiped out, unless a hasty retreat to a safe refuge in the province of Shaanxi (North-West of China) is successful.
One hundred thousand communists began their retreat from the city of Ruijin in the Jiangxi province. Only 8 thousands arrived at destination after an entire year of steady progress over 10,000 kilometers in all kinds of weather and geographic conditions… It was the quickest, and most famished retreat of all times in history. The wife of Mao is pregnant and Mao is seriously sick with malaria and was using the sole horse available to the retreating army.
Every member had to carry his provisions: 5 pounds of rice, and on each side of a stick across the shoulders were hanging either two boxes of munition or grenades, and an empty large canister of kerosene filled with hand tools. Back packs contained a sleeping cover, a winter outfit, and three pairs of study shoes made of cord and reinforced with metal at the heel.
This huge army had no medicine and progressed for days without eating anything. Most of them died of illness and were left on side roads. During most of the retreat, the Red Army was harassed and attacked by the Kuomintang forces. This army had to cross a river at Luting hanging to a cable of a suspended bridge. The army had to traverse seven ranges of high mountains in winter and crossed deserts in summer time.
The humid soil prevented the soldiers of cooking whatever food they managed to scavenge. Thousands died of dysentery after eating raw rice and raw vegetables.
Chang Kai-Chek had decided to eradicate the communists, even though Japan had started its invasion of China. By 1937, Chang Kai-Chek realized the impossibility of wiping out the communist forces and agreed on a truce to opposing the Japanese forces. Once the Japanese army vacated China in 1945, hostility resumed.
The US tested its newly acquired biological weapons on the Red Army, but the communists had the upper hand in 1949. Chang Kai-Chek fled to Taiwan and established his rule on this nearby island. Mao had stated: “Power is won by armed forces”
Note 1: Curious to know a sample of what happened after Mao gained power? https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/the-chant-of-martyrs-in-the-death-camps-of-china-mao/
Note 2: Story extracted from “365 dates that made history” by W.B. Marsh and Bruce Carrick
Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969): Vietnamese
Many famous nationalist leaders were not nationalist by choice.
For example, the Algerian prince Abdel Kader (1808-1882) was not destined to lead the first popular revolt against the new colonial power of France: Abdel Kader was a mystic, Sufi, had done the pilgrimage to Mecca as a teenager with his father, and was deeply religious. The leaders of the tribes elected him to be their Caliph at the age of 24 in order to lead the war against the French troops. After two decades of wars and over 100,000 of French troops amassed to quell the revolt with atrocious mass massacres, and no external support by the Ottoman Empire or any European monarchs, Abdel Kader surrendered and later became the staunchest supporter of France: He worked hard to rally the Egyptians and clerics to the cause of the project of the Suez canal undertaken by the French government.
Another case is of Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) who reluctantly lead the revolution to freeing all south America from Spanish colonialism in 1826. At 19, he married a Spanish girl (from Madrid), two years older than him, and he was deeply in love and decided to lead a normal life, like his dad did on his vast plantations. Suddenly, Simon’s wife died four months later from fever and everything changed in his life. He returned to Europe, Spain and France, on another long trip before he decided to return to Caracas (Venezuela).
Ho Chi Minh or “source of light“, one of the many aliases he used in his clandestine life, was born Nguyen Sinh Cung in Annam or north Vietnam; France was already the colonial power of the current Far East Asian States of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
Ho Chi Minh didn’t finish his high school in 1909 for lack of finance and his father, a low civil servant at the French administration, was fired for alcohol abuse. France had change the Vietnamese ideograms into Latin characters called “quoc ngu“. In 1905, Japan had defeated Russia and the Vietnamese were flocking to Japan for education. Ho Chi Minh decided to go west and boarded a French merchant cargo; he worked in the merchant marine for two years as cabin boy and kitchen helper.
In China of 1912, Sun Yat Sen forced the emperor to abdicate. Ho Chi Minh is in Marseille (France) in 1913; he is refused the application to attend the Colonial school forming administrators to France. WWI starts and 92,000 Vietnamese are enlisted in this western war as replacement to French workers in factories and digging trenches. Ho Chi Minh refuses to participate; he wrote to his Vietnamese mentor in France: “Destiny is reserving us surprises. Within 4 months destiny of Asia will change. The hell with those who decided to fight. We have to wait calmly for the war to end.”
In 1916, Ho Chi Minh is in London and acquiring technical skills in electricity and mechanics. The “Annamite patriots” are in Versailles in 1919 demanding to be freed from France colonialism. Ho Chi Minh understood that independence will be earned by violent means and join the French communist party, recently adhering to the Comintern organized by Lenin in the new Russia Bolshevik regime. Ho Chi Minh wrote: “ I like and respected Lenin because he was a great patriot who liberated his compatriots.”
Thus, Minh sided with the Lenin faction at the 3rd French International that gathered in Tour in 1919; he spoke saying: “The future of socialism is by allying to nationalist forces and taking greater interest in freeing colonized nations that are marching irresistibly toward independence.”
He is suffering famine in Paris but he publishes articles in French communist papers. From Moscow of 1923, Dimitri Manouilski, commissar of agriculture in Ukraine, summons Ho Chi Minh to attend 18 months at the new communist university, designed to training members in clandestine activities. Ho Chi Minh is then a member of the Peasant International executive bureau, the Krestintern and attends the 5th International Congress in Moscow and sides with Stalin, Zinoviev, and Kamenev against Trotsky (chief of the Red Army who was for an International revolution.)
In 1925, Ho is sent to Canton (China) to train and teach 300 Vietnamese communist refugees, among them is the future Prime Minister Pham Van Dong. The Chinese communists, lead by Zhu Enlai, Mao Tse tong, and Wang Jingwei enter Shanghai before their ally the nationalists of Tchang Kai-check who foment a massacre against the communists inside the city and expels them. Moscow is no longer supporting the Chinese Nationalists and Ho is recalled to Moscow. Ho is sent to Bruxelles, Berlin, and Paris. In 1929, Ho reaches Thailand from Vladivostok and unites various small Vietnamese communist parties into one and appoints Tran Phu as secretary-general.
Ho suffers jails in Thailand and China for more than a year and manages to reach Moscow after crossing 7,500 kilometers that lasted 6 months. Mao Tse Tong is firmly established in the Hunan and Jiangxi provinces. By 1933, Stalin started the purge: 30,000 army officers will be executed along with the communist leaders. Ho is feeling the heat and obtains the permission to Joining Mao’s forces and met with a young Vietnamese historian Vo Nguyen Giap (the military mastermind in defeating the US forces in 1973).
In Vietnam of 1940, the Japanese sealed a deal with the French army faction allied to Vichy and are controlling all the air bases and the ports. Ho returns to North Vietnam and settles in a grotto, having carried a typewriter while crossing the frontiers; he eventually forms the Viet Minh and organizes the peasants. Ho is actively contacting agents for arms and support. Ironically, only the US comes to the rescue, supposedly to defeating the Japanese in Far East Asia after japan bombarded Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) in December 1941.
The leader of the Trotskyist communist faction, Ta Thu Thau, infiltrated to the north from his bases in south Vietnam; the Viet Minh captured him several times and was released by orders of Ho Chi Minh. To making a long story short, Ho’s priority was a unified front in the north and decided to eliminate Ta Thu Thau saying: “He was a great patriot and we are crying him. However, whoever does not follow the line I traced will be broken down.” Ho tried hard to finding a peaceful resolution with the French and attended the conference in Fontainebleau during 1946 and spent several months revisiting cities and meeting old friends.
By 1951, Ho is receiving arms and financial resources from both China and Russia while the French troops are supplied by the USA. Ho finally defeats the 12,000 French army in Dien Bien Phu in 1954. In 1955, France abandons all of Vietnam to the US in order to focus its military resources against the Algerian national resistance.
Ho is now establishing the Viet Cong guerrilla and army to fighting the US troops in south Vietnam. He died in 1969 as his emissary Le Duc Tho started the peace conference in Paris with Henry Kissinger. The US will vacate Vietnam in 1973. Ho Chi Minh spoke fluently four foreign languages: Chinese, French, English, and Russian. The Chinese ancient philosopher Confucius was Ho’s spiritual master.
Note: This topic was mainly extracted from the French book “Lighthouses” by Jacques Attali
Woo: No victors!?
Posted on: June 23, 2010
Should civil wars ends with a victor?
Woo to people who underwent a civil war and nobody believes that he emerged the victor! In this state of affairs, males , when forced to talk about the war invariably blame the other or other parties; they are never willing to divulge the atrocities they perpetrated and they act as if they were innocent from what happened; they offer plenty of excuses for fictitious pardons.
God should know that even a monster harbors a horrible conscious after 15 years of insanity and horrors; a bad conscious does not vanish without confessions and true admission of personal guilt and accepting the responsibilities. Only women are ready to talk about the experienced feelings and events of the war but it is hard to locate these women. How can you believe that a state of normalcy can be won when only ambulatory wretched men are crowding the streets and selling little stuffs just to cover the stigma of mendicancy? In this state of affairs, the women after the war are nowhere to be found in the streets; they are secluded in their homes; how the tourism business can flourish when women and girls have deserted the open spaces?
During the civil war, mostly women roamed the open streets tending to the survival of the clans while men were hidden in bunkers and behind fortified sandbags, cagouls masking their faces, conscious of their cowardism and smallnest. In this state of affairs the souls resume their rotting process and inability to see clear into the future; our sun and sea salt have managed to give a semblance of exterior cleanliness, of erradicating the stench and putrifaction that is plaguing every corner in Lebanon. In this state of affairs another civil war is doomed to be re-activated because ignorance cannot grasp another concept but victory, even a fictitious victory. There was one tiny period when the Maronite Christians thought that they have won the war when the hard-line conservative leader Basheer Gemayel was elected President of the Republic, under the Israeli bayonets. Looking back, I would have accepted this ludicrous fact instead of a no victor outcome!
There were many circumstances when a few individuals longed for the resumption of the war without daring to confide their desires: many got lucky in sexual encounters in basement where the living were sheltered from rockets; they made love in total darkness and made sure not to give their real names or be seen in broad daylight. Sun light was not to provide additional details and the consequent exacerbations of finding major physical flaws. Darkness was the queen for releasing the bottled up emotions and tenderness and saving unattached comfortable relationships. Only the sense of touch and fowl smell of the environment and mouth smell were the facts that could handicapped the close relationships: the general deficiency in running water, hot baths and health higyene were excellent excuses to forgiving the shortcomings.
Could you imagine what would happened to Spain if General Franco didn’t win the civil war before the second world war started? Spain would have been the scene of the war played on its land and with its inhabitants. France and England would have been saved from direct involvement in the war and Spain would have been divided and shattered. Could you imagine China if Chang Ki Chek won the civil war against Communist Mao Tse Tong? Most probably, Japan would have not dared invade China. Could you imagine what would have happened to the USA if Lincoln decided for a no win deal? Woo to the people who never managed to win a civil war!
Lebanon civil war lasted 13 years, from 1975 to 1991. Then, the US appointed Syria as mandatory power to keep peace and security till 2005 when the Syrian troops withdrew after the assassination of Rafic Hariri PM. Not until 2007, did the Lebanese felt that there was a victor since 1975: Hezballah overran all offices in Beirut that were planned to amass arms and militias in order to start another civil war. It is then that the lebanese comprehended that the civil war was over and that there was a victor. Elections took place, Constitutional dates were satisfied, and a unity government established. It is going to take more time for reforms and the institution of a modern State but psychologically, the main barriers to development and a climate of security are over.
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