• FireTower@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    coincidentally perfectly timed

    What does he think generals do? Does he think the Soviets and the rest of the allies couldn’t talk to each other?

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      How would they talk? They speak different languages and there weren’t subtitles back then.

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    When you realise Hollywood is from the same country that held the microphone to the world for the last 80 years, repeating the same stories, over and over.

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    Then in the sequel, the audience can no longer tell who is good and who is bad and slowly realize that the main cast who are neither good or bad and have all done horrible things are at the heart of the conflict while every one around them die needless deaths in order to continually drive the story into the next sequel.

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    Germany didn’t almost win. They got extremely lucky with the invasion of France. The French thought it was gonna be trench warfare and unprepared, and the soviet invasion began right when the great purge happened. They got really lucky. Then the Yanks came.

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      Nah. You’re just repeating myths about the French. The French were not idiots and they did not think the war would be fought at the Maginot line. Despite how the myth goes, the Maginot line did exactly what it was supposed to do: funnel the Germans through Belgium and force them into a shitty river crossing at the Dyle River. This was known as the “Dyle plan”. This actually could have worked out if not for the unexpected agility of the Germans and even more importantly: the fact that Belgium had left the allies after losing faith in them after the remilitarization of the reinland.

      They didn’t get “lucky”, the Germans exploited fractured alliances and surprised the allies with their extremely effective and, at the time, novel use of the radio. Hell, they almost won the war before France even fell. Read up on the Dunkirk evacuation if you’re interested. I’d wax on about it, but I’ve got surgery on about 20 minutes.