Fair enough Staines, I'm no expert in this and have thankfully never had to make a terrible decision like the Miillibands did. Apologies for any offence caused.
Mate, no offence caused or taken. It's just coincidence i have just finished that book and to be honest it has effected me a lot. Truly a terrible chapter in history.
True, and it was pretty handy that enough of the people of the Soviet Union were able and willing to fight a war of attrition that saw 23-26m of their military personnel and citizens killed. Take that out of the equation and its hard to see how the other allies would have prevailed without the Soviets fighting so determinedly on the same side. It seems reasonable to assume that if the USSR had not fought back as hard as it did then German forces could have been freed up for a successful invasion of Britain.
Hitler's biggest blunder was Stalingrad in the winter of 42 when the resistance they met ended up with the 6th army being starved and isolated, that failure broke the myth of German invincibility they never fully recovered...
I honestly didn't know that mate. Really don't want to get into a political debate on here, but Churchill was the right man in the right place at the right time in history. Britain was in the grip of despair and it needed someone as inspirational as him to keep them going imo.
Agreed, but wasnt his decision to attack the oil fields in the Caucuses instead of sending his Panzer army into Stalingrad his main error and a major turning point in the war ? Forgive me but my World War 2 history is a bit rusty and that is from memory (I havnt got time to look it up at the moment)
Not going there as regards the Holocaust, I have Jewish blood relatives. As regards the whole farce of the political and economic system we are living in what goes around comes around. It's the long game that counts in the end not decades or even centuries.
