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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lol it happened with the nazis. The diaries of their leaders at the start of the invasion of the ussr were like "this is the biggest movilization ever! Our victory is inevitable and glorious", 3 weeks later goebbels was like "our intel was completely wrong".

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just imagine an Arrested Development voiceover “his victory was NOT inevitable and he was found dead less than a month later”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Goebbels: The Soviets are a backward society and complete victory will come swiftly

Narrator: It wouldn't

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hitler, pressing the luger to the side of his head

Record scratch

"Now, you might wonder how I got here..."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hitler was malding too, like depressed and pissed off that his generals underestimated the soviet resistance.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention the nightmarish logistical issues that made invasion and occupation of such a large territory extremely arduous.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

apparently the main logistics guys actually calculated how barbarossa would go but then their chief buried the report because everyone around him kept going on about the triumph of will and shit

and then the invasion went exactly as the logistics guys predicted it would.

also, gotta love the overall nazi logic of knowing that if they dont win by christmas, they have no path to victory and will lose, and deciding "we'll just win by christmas then! contingency? what's that? we have aryan will!"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It wasn't his generals, Mein Kampf is just hundreds of pages of incoherent racism/anti-semitism + declaring the destiny of Germany to be conquering the weak commie lands and plundering/enslaving them. I believe the paraphrased translation of a quote was that the USSR was a rotten door that would crumble when kicked in. He made the exact same error.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh god oh fuck they have railroad logistical networks and new villages in places we hadn't even mapped!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And the railroads are slightly incorrectly sized for our trains, too!