Both are untrue. About the rifle, “on three.” Everything was exactly the opposite. In total, about 10 million Mosin rifles were produced from 1891 to 1918. It is difficult to say how many of them were produced from 1918 to 1924, but the production does not stop. By 1941 in the arsenals of the red army, there were at least 12-15 million rifles. Under?????? Red Army on 22 June 1941 about 5.5 million people. Add here more than a million automatic rifles SVT, at least half a million automatic PPSH, a large number of machine and hand machine guns. Once it becomes clear: what-what, and small arms in the red army lacked.

But much more interesting the second myth

About the overwhelming superiority of the red army over the Wehrmacht in the number of literally everything. So can, are right liberal historians, and fought we mediocre? Look at numbers.

By June 1941 on the border with the USSR Wehrmacht had in three groups of armies and army “Norway” 127 divisions, two brigades and one regiment. In these troops there were 2 million 812 thousand people, 37099 guns and mortars, 3865 tanks and assault guns.

Note that increasing the number of divisions if done right gives a noticeable advantage, with an equal number of troops, and it is essential. But this force Germany is not exhausted, and that’s about it “forget” to mention the liberals.

Together with Germany in war with the USSR prepared to join Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Italy.

Finland: 17,5 divisions with a total number of 340 thousand 600 people, 2047 guns, 86 tanks and 307 aircraft;

Slovakia: 2.5 divisions with a total number of 42 thousand 500 people, 246 guns, 35 tanks and 51 aircraft;

Hungary: 2,5 divisions with a total number of 44 thousand 500 people, 200 guns, 160 tanks and 100 aircraft;

Romania: 17.5 divisions with a total of 358 thousand 100 people, 3255 guns, 60 tanks and 423 aircraft;

Italy: 3rd division a total population of 61 thousand people 900, 925 guns, tanks 61 and 83 of the aircraft.

That is almost a million people in 42.5 divisions, with 7 thousand guns, 402 tanks, and this almost a thousand aircraft. A simple calculation shows that only on the Eastern front the allies of the Hitler axis, and it would be more correct to call them so, had 166 divisions, numbering 4 million 307 thousand people with 42601 artillery units of various systems, as well as 4171 tanks and assault guns and 4846 aircraft.

So: 2 million 812 thousand from the Wehrmacht and 4 million 307 thousand total population, given the strength of the allies. One and a half times more. The picture is changing dramatically. Don’t you?

And than had on the Western border of the USSR to June 22, 1941?

PSYCHOHISTORICAL WAR OF THE WEST AGAINST RUSSIA

Yes, the armed forces of the Soviet Union by the summer of 1941, when the inevitability of war became apparent, were the largest army in the world. Actually hidden mobilization was carried out. By the beginning of the war, the Soviet armed forces numbered 5 million 774 thousand soldiers. Specifically in the land forces there were 303 divisions, 16 airborne and 3 infantry brigades. Troops had 117581 artillery system 25784 24488 tanks and aircraft.

It seems that the superiority there? However, all of the above-mentioned forces of Germany and its allies were deployed in the immediate 100 kilometer zone along the Soviet borders. While in the Western districts of the red army had a group of 3 million people, 57 thousand guns and mortars and 14 thousand tanks, serviceable of which was only 11 thousand, as well as about 9 thousand aircraft, of which only 7,5 thousand were serviceable.

And in the immediate vicinity of the border of the red army had more or less combat-ready state no more than 40% of this number.

From the above, if you are not tired of the numbers, it is clear that the USSR did not fight with one Germany. In the same way as in 1812 not with one France. That is about any “filled up with meat” out of the question.

And so it lasted almost the entire war, until the second half of 1944, when the allies of the Third Reich fell like a house of cards.

Add here in addition to the direct allies of the foreign parts of the Wehrmacht, the so-called” national SS division”, a total of 22 volunteer divisions. They served in the war 522 thousand volunteers from other countries, including 185 thousand Volksdeutsche, that is, “foreign Germans”. The total number of foreign volunteers was 57% (!) the number of “Waffen-SS”. List them. If it tires you, just estimate the number of lines and geography. The whole of Europe is represented, except perhaps the principalities of Luxembourg and Monaco, and that is not a fact.

Albania: 21st mountain division SS “Skanderbeg” (1st Albanian);

Belgium: 27th volunteer Grenadier division SS “Langemark” (1st Flemish), 28th volunteer tank-Grenadier division SS “Wallonia” (1st Walloon), Flemish Legion SS;

Bulgaria: Bulgarian SS anti-tank brigade (1st Bulgarian);

United Kingdom: Arab Legion “Free Arabia”, British volunteer corps, Indian volunteer Legion SS ” Free India»;

Hungary: 17th SS corps, 25th SS Grenadier division “Hunyadi” (1st Hungarian), 26th SS Grenadier division (2nd Hungarian), 33rd SS cavalry division (3rd Hungarian);

Denmark: the 11th volunteer Panzer Grenadier division of the SS “Nordland”, 34th volunteer Grenadier division “landstorm Nederland” (2nd Dutch), the Free corps of the SS “Danmark” (1st Danish), Volunteer corps of the SS “Salburg”;

Italy: 29th Waffen Grenadier division of the SS “Italia” (1st Italian);

The Netherlands: 11th volunteer Panzer Grenadier division of the SS “Nordland”, the 23 I volunteer motorized division of the SS “Nederland” (1st Dutch), 34th volunteer Grenadier division “landstorm Nederland” (2nd Dutch), the Flemish SS Legion;

Norway: the Norwegian Legion of the SS Norwegian ski battalion of Rangers SS Norwegian Legion, the 11th volunteer Panzer Grenadier division of the SS “Nordland»;

Poland: Gural SS volunteer Legion;

Romania: 103-Panzer-regiment of the SS (1st Romanian), Grenadier regiment of the SS (2nd Romanian);

Serbia: the Serbian volunteer corps SS;

Latvia: the Latvian Legionnaires, Latvian SS volunteer Legion, the 6th SS corps, 15th Waffen Grenadier division of the SS (1st Latvian), 19th Waffen Grenadier division of the SS (2nd Latvian);

Estonia: 20th Grenadier division of the SS (1st Estonian);

Finland: Finnish volunteers of SS Finnish volunteer battalion of the Waffen SS, the 11th volunteer Panzer Grenadier division of the SS “Nordland»;

France: the French Legionnaires SS, 28-I volunteer tank Grenadier division of the SS “Wallonia” (1st Walloon), the 33rd SS Grenadier division “Charlemagne” (1st French), Legion “Abbott Perrot” (recruited from the Breton nationalists);

Croatia: 9-th mountain corps of the SS, the 13th mountain division SS “Khanjar” (1st Croatian). 23rd mountain division SS “Kama” (2nd Croatian);

Czechoslovakia: Gural volunteer Legion SS;

Galicia: 14th Waffen Grenadier division of the SS Galicia (1st Ukrainian).

Separately:

Scandinavian 5th Panzer division SS “Viking” – Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Norway;

Balkan 7th volunteer mountain division SS “Prince Oigen” – Hungary, Romania, Serbia.

24th mountain (cave) division of the SS “Karstjager” – Czechoslovakia, Serbia, Galicia, Italy;

36-I Grenadier division SS “Dirlewanger” – recruited from criminals in various European countries.

Again, we are talking about European volunteers, not about conscription, not about prisoners, not about deserters, by the will of fate forced to exchange service with the Germans for their own lives. About volunteers consciously enlisted in the SS to fight the Russians.

And this we have not mentioned khivi, from the German Hilfswilliger, that is “willing to help”. These are volunteers who entered the service directly in the Wehrmacht. They served in auxiliary parts. But this does not mean non-combat. For example, anti-aircraft calculations for the Luftwaffe were formed from Khiva. The very diverse national composition of the troops opposing the red army, very eloquently says the national composition of prisoners of war, who were at the end of the war in our captivity. A simple fact: Danes, Norwegians and even the French were captured on the Eastern front more than they participated in the resistance to the Nazis in their homeland.

And we have not even touched upon the economic potential that worked for the German military machine. First of all, it is Czechoslovakia, the pre-war leader of weapons production in Europe, and France. And this-artillery, small arms and tanks.

For example, the Czech arms concern “Skoda”. Every third German tank that took part in operation Barbarossa was produced in this company. First of all, it is LT-35, received in the Wehrmacht designation Pz.Kpfw. 35 (t).

Moreover, after the annexation of Czechoslovakia, German experts found in the shops of “Skoda” two new experimental tank LT-38. After reviewing the drawings, the Germans decided to put the tank into service and began its serial production.

The production of these tanks was almost to the end of the war until late 1941, they began to be produced as the basis for German self-propelled guns. More than half of the German self-propelled guns had a Czech base.

The French, in turn, provided the Germans with their ship repair facilities. German submarines, storm of the Atlantic allied convoys, the so-called “Wolf packs, dönitz” was based, and undergoing repairs on the South coast of France and in the earth near Marseille. And ship repair crews arranged competitions regarding the one who will repair the boat quicker. It doesn’t look like a forced labor, is it?

So who fought the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War? Though it is more correct to formulate a question differently: who attacked the USSR in June 1941?

The question is rhetorical.

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Meanwhile, it is necessary to understand, despite all the obvious inconsistencies. After all, the incident of 1983 was a convenient excuse for Washington and its allies to unleash another paranoid and hysterical company against the Soviet Union, contributed to the unity of the anti-Communist bloc. President Ronald Reagan found another reason to confirm his earlier thesis about the USSR as an “evil Empire” – a term borrowed from the movie “Star wars”. Part of the Soviet elite Western propaganda attack scared so much that she two years later with both hands voted for the coming to power of our favorite geopolitical rivals Mikhail Gorbachev.

Once again, it makes no sense to talk in detail about the events of September 1983: the number of newspaper articles about the downed South Korean Boeing is in the thousands, books were written about it and films were made. Let me just remind you that the most important accusation against the Soviet Union is the disproportionate use of force against the civilian liner of the South Korean airline Corian airlines, which was on the first day of autumn 1983 on flight 007 new York-anchorage – Seoul, resulting in the death of 269 passengers and crew members.

THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM KOREAN

But to this day, many facts work against the Western version of the”peace plane”. This is a significant deviation of the Boeing from the flight route of more than five hundred kilometers, which began almost immediately after takeoff from anchorage.

In response, we are told that the pilots simply made a mistake. But how much does history know of cases when passenger aircraft with experienced pilots, who had not once or twice flown on this route, went so far to the side?

And for some reason, the us air traffic control services did not warn Korean pilots that they were flying the wrong course?

Until now, there is no clear answer to the question of why the “new” route of flight 007 ran exactly over Kamchatka, the Kuriles and Sakhalin – in other words, areas that have had and still have strategic importance for the defense of our country. Again object: what such information could be collected by the civil plane if everything and so is visible from satellites. Well, first, from orbit through the veil of the earth’s atmosphere is not noticeable even now. And, secondly, one of the possible targets of call for the possible invasion of our airspace and consisted of data collection about organization of the Soviet air defense systems, who were forced to work on the violator.

Another question that has not received a clear answer from the West is the synchronization of the flight of the South Korean aircraft with the American intelligence satellite ferret – D and the American spy plane.
In addition, the incident occurred against the background of the incessant provocations of Washington in 1983, which was brazen to the point that even authorized the simulation of bombing on one of our military airfields in the Kuriles.

And the main question to which there is no answer: how could the pilots of Corian airlines not see the Soviet military aircraft that was next to them, which indicated its presence and swaying wings, and warning fire. Moreover, they also tried to leave, taking a higher echelon.

Suspicions are even more heightened when you learn that in April 1978, another airliner “Corian airlines” flight 902, EN route from Paris to Seoul through the same anchorage, also “lost” and, probably, quite by accident appeared in the sky over our other important area – the Kola Peninsula. He was forced to land, after passing the formalities passengers were released, pilots were not punished, and expelled from the Soviet Union. This is a fairly well-known fact, but few of us know that in 1992 one of the authoritative South Korean magazines published an article that contained the recognition of the captain of the flight “Corian airlines” in relations with the CIA. It was on the eve of Boris Yeltsin’s trip to Seoul, when he handed over the “black boxes” of the flight 007 – maybe no one told him that in connection with the above-mentioned publication it was advisable to postpone such a ceremony for a more detailed study of the issue.

The presence of special services is very strongly felt in the incident over Sakhalin

The commander of the “Boeing” Chung Ben Ying was at one time the personal pilot of the South Korean ruler Park Jung-Hee.

Work with the top officials of the state implies a mandatory procedure for passing the inspection through the special services, even, rather, long-term cooperation with them. However, both then and today, South Korean intelligence can not be completely independent in its actions – it is in the same team with the Americans. But that’s not all. The influential South Korean newspaper “Choson Ilbo” then posted a message about the landing of the allegedly shot down “Boeing” on Sakhalin, citing CIA data. But on a similar collaboration of journalists with intelligence agencies, and even foreign to be accepted.

There is also a statement posted on the Internet by an American whose father, a personnel scout, did not Board flight 007 just ten minutes before departure – on the advice of his colleagues. But the most amazing thing is the works of Western “writers”, telling that in fact,” Boeing ” was not shot down, but was only forced to land on the territory of the island administrative-territorial unit of the USSR. The question about the future of passengers is given a simple answer: they are kept in the Gulag, because in Siberia there are still special “secret” camps. As” evidence ” are cases of phone calls to relatives made by those who were supposed to die thirty years ago. For example, engineer, obshivanii electronic systems on Board the Korean airliner, suddenly called mother, but only managed to tell that he was all right, and then immediately hung up. There were also reports that the passengers of the Boeing were often met by their friends, but the” resurrected “pretended that they were mistaken.

So, has a right to exist, and the version of “reliable sources” that in fact instead of a passenger “Boeing” was shot down a similar shape American reconnaissance aircraft. The liner was put on an American military base in Japan, and all passengers were given new identity cards and a good monetary compensation, while ordering them to remain silent. If so, the Westerners are well aware that sooner or later the awl will come out of the bag, and then a huge scandal is inevitable. To avoid it, and started the fable about “the current GULAG”.

In favor of the fact that the incident with the “Boeing” was well orchestrated, say a few other similar cases, dated the same 1983 year

The most resonant is the attempt on the South Korean dictator-President Chung Doo-hwan during his visit to Burma in early October, which was named in Japanese and South Korean sources as “the incident in the tomb of Aung San”. Let me remind you briefly: according to the Protocol, Chun Do hwan was to visit the mausoleum in honor of the founder of independent Burma in the capital of this state. The President for some reason of late, sending in advance the place of the ceremony of its Ambassador in this country. However, the mausoleum had an explosion that claimed the lives of about thirty people, including the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of foreign Affairs and the Minister of energy. Judging by the photo taken a few minutes before the incident, representatives of the highest political establishment of South Korea, lined up, waiting for their boss.

After the incident, the Burmese military caught two allegedly North Korean agents who were part of a subversive group and allegedly staged this terrorist act. Everything seems to be converging, until physical evidence is seized and performers. But why so far no one has bothered to clearly explain the reason for the delay of Chung Doo-hwan to the memorial cemetery, explain how North Korean agents could penetrate into the territory of the tomb, which was guarded by about two hundred security officers of the South Korean President, not counting the Burmese security forces, and install two mines of huge explosive force there. And why the North Korean merchant ship, which allegedly landed a group of saboteurs, was from 4 to 11 October in the port of Colombo, that is, far from the scene. And why would Jong Du hwan, on his return to Seoul, not removed from his posts neither the head of the intelligence service, nor the head of his own security. Yes, allegedly North Korean agents have been caught, but who will guarantee that these are not South Korean intelligence officers who were given the task to impersonate the “brothers” from the North? However, no one has published photos of these people so far. And there was no reason for the North Koreans to “run” into a scandal that resulted in the rupture of diplomatic relations with Burma, a country with which trade was very profitable for Pyongyang and Rangoon. Now, decades later, these two countries are again drawn to each other, like magnets, on the basis of anti-Western sentiments. However, a year before the South Koreans claimed that their leader wanted to kill-it is clear who-in Canada. It’s starting to sound paranoid.

Even more mysterious event occurred in August of the same 1983, when in the sea of Japan the South Korean military ship, “Gangwon-do” allegedly drowned North Korean high-speed reconnaissance vehicle. More precisely, this was done by a helicopter taking off from the ship with an “a-C-12” missile, which, according to the South Koreans, is designed to fire at ground targets. Strange thing is, there is no information about the successful use of “air-C-12” in the sea of Japan anywhere else, except in South Korean sources. And different versions of what happened. According to one of them, the South Koreans stepped on the deck of the wreck, on the other – it just sank, and again no photos. But as the evidence exposed for all to see the helicopter, the fuselage of which was adorned with a sign destroyed military vessel of the enemy. “Weighty” proof, I see.

In the case of Boeing, the Americans pursued not only the goal of finding out the details of the functioning of the Soviet air defense system, but also wanted to prevent the rapprochement of Seoul with Moscow.
South Korean dictator General Park Jung-Hee (President of the country in 1963-1979), apparently, was very burdened by his total dependence on Washington. He therefore, to the extent possible, looking for “outs” in Moscow. One of the first signs – thanks to the Soviet leadership for the rapid resolution of the issue with the passengers and crew of flight 902, made, I note, in the complete absence of diplomatic relations. This line was continued and at the next military ruler Chong Du Hwan, then having also American or Japanese citizenship, South Korean walkers, having received a visa, visited our foreign Ministry to persuade us to establish relations with Seoul. After the incident with Boeing, these visits to the foreign Ministry ended, South Korea was seized by a wave of anti-Soviet hysteria…

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