About the MISSING tanks

Perhaps you never realized while reading WWII history books or articles, but when it comes to the Soviets and tanks or weapons in general, most historians usually say that the Soviets were MISSING this or that amount of tanks, or aircraft, or whatever else. Yet, when they talk about Germany, Japan, US, UK, France, etc. they never say how many tanks or weapons did those countries MISS, in order to achieve their goals. Strange, isn’t it?

Well, it is actually a very simple trick, originating from official Soviet sources, and quoted thereafter by many. The Germans entered WWII with light tanks only, less than 2000 of them, and most of them with machine guns or 20mm guns, and today many historians do not hesitate to accuse the Germans of trying to conquer the world. The situation with the Brits, French, Americans, etc. is the same: they have these pitiful numbers of tanks, which were so outdated by the Soviet standards of the time that they should hardly count. But no historian writes about how many tanks did these countries MISS, and so it seems to the reader that they had enough. In contrast the constant bragging about the Soviets MISSING this or that amount of tanks and other weapons creates the illusion that they did not have enough. Or did they?

The only country which was prepared for the Second World War was the Soviet Union. A simple comparison of the state of the military development, production, technology and last but not least weapons accumulation between the Soviets and other states, would demonstrate this simple fact. It is precisely for this reason that the Soviet propaganda came up with this trick about MISSING weapons. Simple but effective trick, as time has proven.

Today it is still largely used by shameless “historians” such as G.Gorodetsky, to try and persuade the unsuspecting and uninformed reader that because the Soviets were missing this or that tank, they were unprepared to attack Germany in the summer of 1941. So, if we follow this Soviet-Zhukov-Gorodetsky logic, and try to input the real numbers, we will inevitably end up with this result: On June 21, the Germans had less than 4000 tanks, tankettes, and self-propelled guns, 80% of which were light and old, and the other 20% were a bit better but still incomparable to the Soviet models. So, the Germans, conclude the historians, were obviously on their way to conquer not only the USSR but the rest of the world as well.

On June 21, the Soviets had 28000 tanks, yes: TWENTY EIGHT THOUSNAD, and according to Zhukov, they were MISSING 16000 tanks!!! Not bad of a strategy to cover up and mislead the reader! So, if Hitler was about to conquer the world with his pitiful collection of obsolete junk-yard machines, who some call “tanks” then what was Stalin about to do with his 28000 modern and unmatched tanks? Perhaps conquer the Universe? Or is it that the Russians were stupid, so they needed many times more tanks to achieve what the smart Arian Germans could achieve? You would be surprised, but many people actually think so, and truthfully believe it, while at the same time they continue to lecture on modern Democracy, Human rights, equality of men, political correctness, etc. And all because they failed for the cheap Soviet propaganda tricks, which were successfully, picked up by Western historians and used until the present day.

I would say, it is time to wake up and finally face the facts and numbers, and ask some questions.