Comments on: Mariya Oktyabrskaya: The Fighting Girlfriend

By: Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy — Wed, 20 May 2020 02:05:55 +0000

Also Hitler ordered the attack to be postponed while he invaded another country. That attack delayed operation Barbarosa by approximately one month. I don”t recall what country it was aside from it was a relatively small country like Holland and those troops had to go capture the country and then travel back to the Polish border for Operation Barbarosa.

By: Dominic Roy Accampo

Dominic Roy Accampo — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:55:02 +0000

The reasons that the Germans were taken off guard by the Soviet winter were two fold:

The main reason was the fact that the winter occurred about one full month early, which is why the German soldiers were not at all prepared, having no winter coats with them at this time.

The second was the fact that this winter was one of Russia’s coldest. The Russians were prepared for the worst that their own winters could throw at them, but German antifreeze and gun oil was made to face the worst known to Germany, which unfortunately for the Germans, was not as cold as that sometimes found in Russia.

These two factors are mentioned in “Panzer Leader” by Guderian and “Marshal of the Soviet Union” by Zukoff.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:48:04 +0000

Interesting style)
Just a comment from someone for whom Russian is native language.
“Ilya Oktyabrskaya” is a nonsense. In Russian for most family names there are male and female variants (actually, there only ones which are the same for both are foreign family names: english, german, whatever. Even in the USSR some ukrainian, belarusian or baltic family names could be the same. But for Russian surnames there are differences. So it should be Ilya Oktyabrskiy (which means that one of his ancestors was born in October, I guess).