Maciej Zwolinski

Believe it or not, I am actually interested in the answer to the question what proportion of RKKA in 1944 onwards were Russians and what proportion were others, including the men mobilised from the reconquered territories. - as I wrote in my post. Not so much in the other stuff you mention now.

This is not the point Kraze was making. He specifically referred to the period after 1944 as the time when the Russians were in the minority and to the period 1941-1942 when it was mostly Russians fighting. The Wikipedia statistics quoted above are for the whole war so they do not refute his point, as it is possible that the majority of ethnic Russians casualties happened in the first phase of the war. There is evidence for Soviets conscripting heavily from the regions vacated by the Germans as soon as the front moved further west. I would be very interested if someone has the data specifically for 1944 onwards.

This is how it should be. However, the affected countries probably have to make the first move of making an international scandal of this. So far Sweden and Germany have been quiet.

Apologies in advance to the German forum members and the good Herr Oberst, it is uncalled for but I could not help myself. The title of this is so Deutsche Wochenschau 1943....

There are many Ukrainians working in Poland, so now is our turn to return the favour.

Better still, you can make a Babushka Doll of a Russian soldier if you manage to score a direct hit and put one inside him.

Causeway?

Of course. Wunderwaffen and Volkssturm will turn the tide of the war.

Wszystkiego najlepszego!

They are really scraping the barrel!

We will see, but the intercepted phone calls from Russian soldiers which the Ukrainians post from time to time on the Internet show the Russian soldiers to be EXTREMELY resigned to their fate, apathetic and tolerant of abuse. They expected to be sent on suicide missions, not fed, not supplied, etc. They grumbled about it freely and some of them talked about trying various beaurocratic excuses for getting back and not fighting, but nothing more energetic. No talk of mutiny, no talk of desertion.

Sure. Wars emphatically are about collective guilt and collective punishment, which is assumed to happen in war. If you are an enemy combatant, the other side is presumed to be trying to kill you with full intent and premeditation, yet legally . Solely because someone in your country told you (even forced you) to put on the uniform, without any relation to your individual actions. This is preciselys what differentiates war from law enforcement. Murder of civilans during war is morally wrong an/or morally prohibited but not because of the "collective punishment" angle, which is a concept from a different order of affairs, but because it exceeds the level of violence culturally considered to be acceptable in order to resolve conflicts between groups, by targeting people who are generally considered to be ineffectual in that conflict.

The man is from a country fighting a war against genocidal enemy. His is a different perspective. I think that this would be the case for many other forum members, if we were in his place. War is by definition collective violence and by definition makes people guilty by association and enemies for no other reason, than their nationality. This extends to emotions about the enemy, which of course tends to be hate. The imperative not to say anything racist or "hate-speachy" is something for people not concerned with life or death or, yes, feelings of revenge for the destruction of their country and barbaric murder of their compatriots. Let us respect that this is a different situation and move along. Nobody is required to support what Kraze is saying but it should be acknowledged this is something else than trolling about WW2 war crimes or Middle East ethnic issues, which the forum rules are intended to prevent.

He will very dramatically commit suicide just before going on air. His last words being the traditional farewell speech of Soviet/Russian suicides: "Comrades, don't shoot, I too am a Communist !"

One small correction - it was not the Warsaw ghetto, but Warsaw entire. Warsaw ghetto fought in 1943. The rest of Warsaw in August 1944, which is when Russians got close, but stopped on the other side of Vistula (some say: were stopped by effective German defence; I would say that they were stopped initially, but then took their sweet time to get back moving.)

Sure, I am only talking about the formal allocation of the land currently making up the Ukraine after the Union of Lublin 1568 mostly to the Polish part vs the Lithuanian part of the Commonwealth. Regardless of the administrative divisions, the original Orthodox population of those lands was described as gente Ruthenus, natione Polonus and their Ruthenian identity was not in dispute. Although since XIV century there also had to be some ethnic Lithuanians who settled in Kiev or wherebouts, their numbers must have been small enough for them to Ruthenise quickly.

It means that Prigozin is making early preparations to fight other oligarchs over posession of Putin's corpse, his wife and daughter and the ring with the inscription "to the strongest" as soon as Putin breaths his last. In other words, surely a reference to the Diadochi Wars.

This is certainly right, I have only one quibble. Perhaps surprisingy, during the Commowealth today's Ukraine was mostly -if not entirely - Polish Crown lands, not the Grand Duchy (Lithuanian) lands. The Lithuanian Ruthenians would be today's Belarussians.

I am waiting for some guy from Königsberg or Karelia to establish himself in Tuva or thereabouts and redo the adventures of v.Unberg-Sternberg as his reincarnation (the good Baron was a Buddist and strong believer in metaphysical stuff). My life would be complete.

Surely Ukrainians are Gondorians, living in the shadow of Mordor for years and vainly trying to wake the rest of the Free Peoples up to the threat.

Où est la Masse de Manoeuvre?

1918 tactics with 1915-trained soldiers are going to be fun to watch.

Sniffed around where, if you don’t mind me asking? I ask because if your assessment is accurate then something has definitely gone wrong with RA armour. Hang on, is is not how we are supposed to use tanks in Combat Mission anyway? Infantry in the front to spot&make the enemy fire positions reveal themselves, tanks at the back, as far as the LOS/effective range of weapons allows, preferrably keyholed, APCs/IFVs as battle taxis, out of LOS most of the time. This is what I have read in the many tactics threads on this very forum.

Interesting account name. Something tells me he is not a fan of Kherson.

Apparently an anonymous Ukraininan source has told Washington Post the Novofedorivka attack had been done Ukrainian Special Forces. Of course this may be just a new alternative explanation to confuse the Russians. [Edit] Others beat me to the news.