When will you post Hannibal part19 sir

Can you do something for Bosnia in 92?

@zটি MDNR You are reported for misinformation.

Please do the wars following 1918 and the German Freikorps involvement in the Baltic states.

Soon it will be time again ;)

@@MrNebelschatten для ядерных ракет 😈😈😈

@@user-hw2yo8vo5t Welche nuklearen Raketen, mein unterbelichteter Freund? Das nukleare Arsenal wird in Russland durch die selben korrupten Mittel wie die Armee bezahlt. Und siehe an, wie russische Panzer hinwegrosten. Ja, bitte feuert euer Nukleararsenal ab. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, wie eure Raketen in den Silos hochgehen und das russische Umland nuklear verseucht wird! Wäre genauso schlau wie die Aktion eurer Streitkräfte Schützengräben in Chernobyls verseuchtem Untergrund zu graben. Aber was kann man anderes auch von Russen erwarten?

@@user-hw2yo8vo5t your alien alphabet alone is enough to trigger my inner German marching songs 😆

@@MrNebelschatten Yes, when Germany collapses under this puppet government, Russians will have the free way. But fortunately for Germans, Russians are not nearly as brutal, and are not hungry for the land that is not theirs.. ;)

Not as insane as 2020 when the world believed that covid were real, so they lock people up like animals, and punish them for wanting to eat.

It provided a blueprint for Operation Barbarossa in ww2. A good one really. Except they met a unifies Russia with different national attitudes.

It was going to be repeated in Ukraine actually, but the Germans decided to treat them as subhumans too. When they realized this, Ukrainians joined the effort.@@SuperChuckRaney

1945: Am i a joke to you?

wait a few years, it seems our generation ill break all records of lunacy

Russian imperial army was desintegrated due to the revolution and lack of morale. troops left army and go home by foot. Ukraine

Even crazier that Poland being 2 years old, after 123 years of slavery, remade from 3 different parts, won with Russia in 1921 and stopped their march to West Europe. XD

Germany should’ve dig themselves in defense on the west and finished russia and the bolsheviks once and for all. Dismember the country into at least 5 different kingdoms and be done with it.

No, these are political events, not military ones. After the Bolsheviks came to power, they practically disbanded the army. There were many reasons for this, including the creation of a new army subordinate to the revolution.

@@quandmeme9970 Nothing that in Russia there was still a civil war? It is ridiculous to talk about great merits.

Yes, the Germans were trying to free the countries enslaved by Russia shown in this video but England and the US fought against the Germans which lead to those countries coming under Bolshevik enslavement which continues to this day.

Yes, wars have practically always started out fighting another country, but only a few of those didn't end with fighting starvation. Soldiers tend to forget about their nationalistic pride and perceived superior norms and values when having to resort to eating bugs.

@zটি MDNR Good info!

Wow you don't say I! And here I thought they just wanted to make the biggest loaf of bread in the world

@@Jaiyro That was actually their main mission on the eastern front.

I think HistoryMarche bring up a lot of unusual and overlooked topics with very interesting videos. I think this channel deserves more attention.

Russia lost because of inner betrayal and outside infiltration, it's obvious to me now that in late 1916 Russia was considering to make a separate peace with Germany, so to avoid that British instigated February "democratic" revolution, which was nothing else but a coup with many generals and government ministers at the head of it. Rasputin wasn't a monster like they like to portray him, far from it...keep watching CNN and base your "knowledge" on Hollywood so to make sure you stay in darkness

Hey man, thanks for that recommendation, saw it's on prime. I sure do miss the grand period epics like the ones they did back then, the ones that were 3+hrs long with intermission and all practical effects and well done costume designs

The Russians were ill-prepared for the war, much less against the strongest army in Europe.

Sorry to say but Tzar and his family was killedby bolshevics (communists) so Tzar didnt have anything wit Red army loss.

@@nikolamatic8684 The war was already lost when the communists took the power. In fact, the Bolsheviks wanted a peace treaty with the Germans while the Mensheviks wanted to win no matter what. Interestingly, the Germans helped Lenin to return to Russia because the latter promised them to sign a peace agreement.

Barbarossa was a walk in the park in the beginning. The Soviets held out long enough until winter and the American supplies came.... blizzards saved the Soviet capital... let's not forget.

@@BrandonTimmons-km4hi its funny down there in uncany valey, isnt it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@hastalavictoriasiempre2730 What do you mean?

​@@BrandonTimmons-km4hiThe most of the american lend lease arrived after the most crucial battles in the eastern front. Sure american trucks carried the soviet logistics in Bagatrion, but them what? Soviets held 80% of the Germany army, the western allies merely 20%.

@@BrandonTimmons-km4hithe winter didn’t save Russia

Thanks KHK, lovely to see you here!

they were defeated. russia has never won a war on its own

L TO THE SOVIETS, L TO COMMUNISM

@@Blox117 copium level in this comment

@@anil2584 enjoy your success in ukraine

@@Blox117 balkhmuth

Our education is everything they said soviet and oppressive regimes educations would be lol. I’m finding out alot of things are this way.

I never even know about the war between Russia and Poland, 1919-21. I was taught that there was peace after the armistice. American children and young adults are taught history very poorly, in my experience.

@@unionsquaregrassman there was also the north Siberian intervention! American troops fought Russians on Russian soil!

@@ianfitzpatrick2230 They wanted the 40% Russian gold reserves the Czechs managed to get their hands on .

Our High Shcool education system was all about the civil war but onlt a few chapters the rest was all about slavery and a few unheard of blacks,,,,, Teacher (Black and dumb as a rock) tried to tell me some Black general led a Hatian Army against the French Grand Army and was the first general to defeat Napoleon....... I know all about Haiti ( not a good black roll modle for a country) and I never new Naploeon left the Continent nor that a Hatian Army landed in Europe.... Revisionist BS history.................

Because the army had been disbanded by the Bolsheviks, so there were virtually no resistance

@@andrewbarton8034 it was disbanded due February revolution. Bolsheviks did nothing for that, as in October 1917 there was no army to disband.

@@danielkirpichnikov2007 thaf's false. The mass of the soldiers stayed on the front lines (and some even fought) in 1917. It was not until the Bolsheviks' coming to power the army was disbanded

Nonsense propaganda. Russians manned more troops on the front than the Germans, but still they lost.

Show me a signed document by Hitler stating that he has any intention of colonising Eastern Europe.

This excuses mass genocide in the ussr by Germany?

This is conveniently ignored in history because it would make Germany seem rational, which they were. Just as the Soviet imperialist expansions west aren’t even covered in our history books while Germany invaded Poland was the end of the world.

@@blitzy3244 polish imperialist expansions are not covered either

From military point this was a waste of time, men and resources. Victory was achieved too late to really use Ukranian grain and right moment for decisive attack in the West was missed. If Spring offensive came early and with more manpower, USA wont save Europe...

Then the Trotskists ask why Stalin was more popular...

@@omarbradley6807 Well he got to pick who got the jobs.

I was completely floored when I learnt Trotsky did this for the first time and to this day don't see how he wasn't laughed out of every room after he came up with this

@@throneandaltar7557 They asked him to come up with an alternative because without allied backing they couldn't afford to stay in the war. They assumed Germany would switch focus to the Western front and them alone because they knew the Allies had been using the Provisional Government to tie down German troops. When they realized Germany *wanted* to keep fighting, they agreed to the terms, but by then it was too late.

@@brainflash1 Lenin and the Soviets gave Trotsky a clear instruction to conclude peace along the front line. And if it failed, Lenin was ready to fight further, using it already in agitation for the defense of the Fatherland. We are ready for a world without conditions, but the Kaiser wants to capture everyone. Trotsky somehow thought that the dissolution of the army would immediately cause a revolution in Germany. By the way, Lenin tried with all his might to cancel the order to disband the army.

Same

+1

Correct

Perhaps because HistoryMarche bring up lesser known subjects? I think this channel is overlooked and deserve more attention, hvye have a broad and very interesting selection. I.M.H.O.

There is a video description, like on almost any historical video on youtube, i get that you want to watch videos here but it can't be that hard to read literally sentence because that is exactly where it explains the timeline and the year

To be honest its misleading. Bolsheviks were hoping for a communist revolution in Germany after Russia, and then in the whole world. Yup, they seriously believed in their fairy tales and that's why they didn't prepared

This is Trotsky's decision. Lenin wanted peace, along the front line, and after that, demobilization. But Germany was also overwhelmed by unprecedented greed. Instead of capturing Poland and Lithuania and buying food from Russia with money. They wanted everything for nothing, as a result, they continued the war on two fronts. And in the occupied lands, instead of free food, guerrilla warfare and Bolshevik agitation of their soldiers.

>if Germany had won WWI And then socialist revolution strike down Kaiser. What a mess that would be.

and the bolsheviks refusal to surrender

And the Poles refusal to surrender. Poland forever.

Finnish reds were already losing by the time germans landed

Also poland killed a lot of germans and took German land after 1919

I was going to say this, thanks. "We have only to kick in the front door and the whole rotten structure will collapse!"

@@terraflow__bryanburdo4547 yeah, they kicked, and then rebuilt Berlin from the ground

And remembered winters from Russia much milder what they endured in the 1940s

@@pawelnowak9440 IMHO, the winter gets somewhat overplayed as a factor.

The whole Nazi race theory told them that Slavs were incapable of sophisticated warfare and they were communists so they'd never manage to build 10s of thousands of tanks etc

the Russians had their final revenge in 1945 i guess lol

@@therearenoshortcuts9868 Even after German unconditional surrender, they did not lose nearly as much as Russians did in this treaty..

They basicly freed the nation from russian Grips

The germans comitted the same mistake with this treaty which could have been just as costly in the long run, like the treaty of Versailles.

No, ivan , you (Muscovy ) lost nothing

Problal;y cause they were not much to them in the big picture...

Same with the sailor revolts in germany (1918), which sparked into a full blown revolution. That's why the Kaiser had to flee the country and the Weimar Republic was found and doomed in the next year after signing the treaty of Versailles. Fun fact, the Weimar republic and the Soviet Union were both very isolated after the 1. WW. That's why both met in Rapallo and the Weimar Republic was the first country, which recognized the Soviet Union as a state. The Germans made a deal that they could test their tanks there (disregarding the Treaty of Versailles) and the Soviets got technology and engineers from the germans. Both wanted to end the isolation.

Excuses the russians where getting thrashed on the battlefield so it wouldn't make a difference.

@@ninjaa6952 trashed you don't no shit about eastern front

​@@jackhardy3905battle of tannenberg alone is proof enough

@@mmaedits2002 It doesnt proof anything

Many, Including Hitler who was also a soldier in this time.

@@itzikashemtov6045, Hitler was in the Western Front, not the Eastern Front.

@@nathanpangilinan4397 I know he was on front when they attacked my country Serbia, we're not western front tho.

@@goxyeagle8446 He was serving in the Army at that time, yes, but he was not anywhere near Serbia.

@@randomlyentertaining8287 Might be, I have other informations. Anyways he was Austrian and Austrians lost on their first attempt to conquer Serbia. It was first Allies victory so he must remembered that for sure

I'm sure that defeat in 1905 war with Japan is more humiliating, imagine being the first European nation that lost the major war with so called "worst race"

The worst is yet to come.

@@rikkithinn7258 Lol you are funny lad

@@KIRILL-fl7cp Mozhet, no to ya skazal pravada ist, Bog nakazhet neblagodarynkh.

@@rikkithinn7258 Накажет тех кто 8 лет бомбил Донбасс, убивая мирных женщин и детей, а сейчас прикидывается невинной жертвой

Yeah, wtf was that

What oblast do you live in?

поколение егэ?

It should not be that new for you. Lenin was a tool in the hand of the central powers. He greed to the harsh terms of the Brest-Litovsk treaty because for him the main thing was succedding in fully taking the power against the other faction who wanted to control Russia. One of his main argument to convince people to be on his side was to get Russia out of the war. And as we know, during the years that follower the war, the soviets took back most of the territories they let go in the Brest-Litovsk treaty.

And of those channels, the one with the worst viewers is Knowledgia. The amount of idiots there.... Knowledgia is a jack of all trades, and therefore a master of none, so they get a lot wrong, but they are very interesting videos in general. Of course, not as top notch as these.

PS Concerning India, they should do a video on the Indianoccupation of Sikkim where the Mongooids of Sikkim supposedly wanted to be owned by India instead of being free. PFF! I'm sure the Indian soldiers wielding guns were not at all an influence in the voting procedures. "Votes don't count. What counts is who counts the votes." The US occupation of Hawaii may ahve been covered already. Dumb liberals bash China for occupying Tibet when they do similarly.

The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion explain that powerful Gentile kigns were the only visible threat to the Jewish plans for global domination. I plan to do a video explaining how the Protocols were frame to look like a plagiarized hoax. It has to do with the fact that the... well... I'll wait for the video. PS I worship Jesus, a Jew. His race isn't the problem. The racist Talmudic culture is the problem. It is so ironic that the dispersal of the Jews by Rome especially, has become their strength, for then they had agents in ALL countries, and that made collusion and conspiracy rather easy.

If he's Russian he's ruthless Germans attacking in conquering war but they're not ruthless Typical western propaganda

France soloed the world for 5 wars with napoleon. But i guess it is napoleon after all

Actually it was too late to mitigate the blockade. German people in 1917 already suffered from hunger, some starved to death...

@@alexzero3736 Yes...which is why capturing Ukraine's food production would help mitigate the ongoing impact of the blockade...

The most beautiful thing is that during the Second World War the Soviet Union simply destroyed Germany completely. Just Despite all her achievements, successes, And it shows the strength of the Soviet Union and the Russians in particular.

​@@denchik6278 the Soviet Union was everything except beautiful. No freedom, just a dysfunctional system where man tries to control everything. A huge big state controls everything including what people think. Communism isn't very different from Nazism.

@@denchik6278 the soviet union collapsed 40 years later. How is that strong. Weak state with poor people thats what russia is. The only thing going for them is the size and the weather

Also prove that Putin is right about reclaiming those nations, as they were part of Russia.

Poles were fighting on both sides of the conflict, ones forced to join the army by the Russians and other by the Germans. In the end there was a revolution in Poland and it took land both from Germany and Russia and formed Poland.

But why would that happen? Also, how would that be interesting?

@@l.s.9095 Why? The outcome of the war in the west wasn't settled in 1917. It was a stalemate at that point. In the east, the Germans were winning. If they could have concentrated more effort on it, the Bolsheviks and the Communist revolution would have ended in a loss. The western powers were not big fans of the Communist revolution. They probably wouldn't have stopped Germany from going into Russia heavily. The Entente powers probably would have agreed to end the war at that point with an amicable peace. With pressure from the civil population, the Entente powers needed to end the war anyway. Germany wouldn't have had the humiliation of losing the war that they had in November 1918. The rise of National Socialism would never have happened. No WWII, at least the way it happened in reality. I find that interesting. If you don't, I understand.

The beef Germans had was with the British Empire and France who were suffocating German expansion in Africa and German commerce generally. Imperial Russia was an incompetent menace at that point.

The Allies would have never allowed that

Wasn't going to happen, the whole reason they made peace in the east was because the Russians have been defeated, France and Britain were bloodied, but hardly beaten. IT's possible they could have tried to make peace with the west after making peace in the east, but I doubt the 2 sides could have come to an agreement.

In Soviet Russia, you don't invade. You in-wade.. in the blood of your fellows.

As cannon fodder

Conscripting the people of the occupied eastern lands would have been the fastest way to get them to revolt at that point.

why should they have fought for them if they didnt even want to give them food?

It wasn't a matter of manpower for the Germans it was much more about resources and especially food due to the British blockade. Taking the food was a lot more useful

Why they wanted to win france anyway? Russia was always the bigger threat. Germany should’ve destroyed Russia once and for all when they got the chance.

Like shooting civilians in 1905

@@Spiderfisch yeah because he ordered them to do that -____- (he didn’t) he wasn’t even in the city at the time.

@@gwlevits the men who did it were under his responsibility

@@Spiderfisch I didn’t say he didn’t bear any responsibility, I said he wasn’t ruthless. He didn’t order them to shoot. It was a tragic accident caused by provocateurs.

Why? Why is it surprising that few people care to learn about a German offensive in Russia in 1917? It had no impact on the end result of the war nor really interfered with the rise of the Soviets.

In the end, the Soviet Union rose equally, whatever one may say, and this is all that Rostov was captured by others, it never happened at all.

Their infection-injection of the human virus Vladimir Lenin worked perfectly!

Well yes and we would be all speaking German 😀Greetings from Slovakia!

@@NerickovaNoha Germans didn't really do the Germanising thing, not like the french or other slavic countries did (atleast not during this time, later ... well)

The permanent continuation of European Colonialism is not preferable

@@Ghreinos The Germans were very much into the Germanising thing

Yes they did in Poland.

Working on it. Some key members of both teams were on vacation, but we're getting back on the horse.

They did not take the food out of the country.

Exactly. Many peasants, who lived through WWI and soviet repressions, had good memories about german occupation. Much less amounts of food were taken, independent government was preserved(in some point, at least, it had borders and wasn`t a part of Germany), no etnic/class oppressions etc. Because of that, many people from Belarus, Ukraine, Baltics joined Wehrmacht in WWII as collaborationists.

@@julianshepherd2038 USSR did take food out of the country for sale. All Stalin`s industrialization was carried out by money got from grain and gold exports. Also, taking the food out of villages(and selling it afterwards) was quite common as punishment for "counter-revolutionary activity/sabotage of grain plan" in early 1920-s and 1930-s.

@@mitchell1489 what a joke, Germans took everything they could from there in order to win on western front and the situation there was very bad. Skoropadsky the one who ruled on UNR wasn't supported by Ukrainian people because he let to Germans to take everything that's why Skoropadsky government fell and he ran to Germany. You're talking about people who were nationalists during ww2 who were cheated by Germans one of them was Bandera who was imprisoned by Germans when he realized that Germans aren't going to give them freedom. Germans lied very nice during ww2 that's why some Ukrainians believed in it but it's not the majority.

@@julianshepherd2038 yeah, they took everything they could because they were f*cked on western front, they sent the strongest troops (German and Austria Hungary) on eastern front that's why they lost on western front.

Jews got rid of him. They prfer dumbocracies and commies bbecause atheists and liberals are mroe easy to manipulate than royal-loyals.

С чего быть благодарным ? В 1916 и 1917 весь немецкий кулак и значительный австро-венгерский кулак были направлен в Россию, а на западе шла траншейная война. (Австрия даже хотела пойти на уступки советской России, чтобы сохранить свое положение.) И надо учесть, что белая армия не воевала с немцами, так как хотела, чтобы немецкие войска захватили коммунистические города

И еще маленький момент: если бы страны, которые по брестскому миру остались независимыми, то никакого СССР бы не было, была бы просто российская советская федеративная социалистическая республика. СССР создали только для того, чтобы красная Украина, красная белорусь и красная ЗСФСР были равноправными членами одной страны.

There would be a Kaiserreich plot that is better for Russia than the USSR (the Union of States that sucked resources from Russia and Russians.)

US troops did not win World War I, only shortened it. The war was lost by logistics - Britain had solved its food problem and had ever growing munitions, Germany was starving and running out of raw materials. The end was inevitable. However, Britain was increasingly worried about revolution breaking out, both in Britain and all across Europe so they encouraged the US to commit to the war to hasten it as quickly as possible. Likewise, WW2 would have ended the same way regardless of US entering the war because the Axis ability to feed and rearm itself was steadily deteriorating.

Do you understand what nonsense you just wrote? What would happen if the Allies did not win the First World War? They would have lost this war! There are no other options. The tension of social and economic forces in Europe was such that in Britain, France and Germany there would be a cascade of Socialist revolutions, in fact, not only Lenin, but all the socialist forces in Europe counted on this. You simply cannot imagine the power of the proletarian Socialist associations at the end of the Great War. The result of a German victory could have been the Soviet Union from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The coming to power of the fascists and Nazis in Germany and Italy, the nationalist movements in Poland and Finland were vital in order to prevent socialist revolutions through the without judicial reprisals against the leaders and activists of the Socialist movements.

Yeah people still think this will happen even in the current war. People have been telling me that Russia will win by Christmas unironically. We are in a loop.

Well, this part of "Ukraine" that was "taken" was populated in some regions by 80% of Polish people, mostly city of Lwów, where Poles were 85-90%, there were mostly polish-speaking villages on Wołyń and Podole, as well as on Wileńszczyzna(Villinus and surroundings were birth places of most of Polish rulling Staff, mainly Piłsudski), on Belarus there were full-polish cities, like Grodno, and Brześć Litewski(today Brześć), and also countryside was populated by Poles, and adding a cherry on top, Belarus started existing in 1918, that was totally new creation, made by germans to keep their old enemies, Poles, in check, because many of Polish national uprisings(1831, 1863) had been taking places in teritories belonging today to Ukraine, and Belarus, actually, as much as 8 million Poles lived in polish eastern teritories, that demographic only changed after Mass murders from the hands of germans and Russians, and also Wołyń massacre, conducted by Stiepan Bandera facist wing of Ukrainian nationalists, and there are some horrific descriptions of killings right there, and also by Russian forcefull civilian relocations to the "given" western territories, and now only up to 300 000 polish people lives on Wołyń and Podole, so yes, we had a rough relationships with neighbours, because they took our territories away, and we had a good relationships only with Romania, Hungary, and Ukraine(Siemon Petlura government, whitch actually wanted to give polish territories back to Poland for help in fight with USSR, and we all know what happened in 1921) PS.and let me just remind you that those "Belarussian", and "Western Ukraine" territories were polish for 600 years back then

Also Poland had to be isolated, because USSR was in war with Poland at that time, and UK chose USSR over Poland and betrayed it by doing so

And I don't know if you know about Chechoslowakia taking Polish territory by force in 1919, when they Poland was preocupied by soviet offensive

And to give you a glimpse of what were those teritories like, imagine when Scotland would sucede from UK and it would take city of York and northern Britain, or if Canada would take Northern America up to Boston, and Great Lakes region

Ok fascist sympathizer.

Not really. Morale was low after 4 years of war, supplies of food, weapons, ammunition and mostly everything else were running low as well. Confronting them was an enemy force rejuvenated by American soldiers and materiel. It was a war of attrition and Germany had been starved for 4 years, their soldiers and civilians had had enough. No amount of conquest in the east was going to make up for that.

@@NotOfWomanBorn Germany tried to win before America got there and used up the things you list.

And that was them done.

Is that a bad thing now? lmao

@@zakkart yeah

Shut up. You couldn't even defeat Russia in six months!

Lenin was a rootless cosmopolitan

Serbian talking about being one sided lol and also talking about propaganda, go write it on some ruSSian channel, they are masters of propaganda, everything in this video was described perfectly, ruSSians lost because they were weak as always and most of them didn't even know what they are fighting for, western propaganda is nothing when compared to ruSSian. Yes West should finally step up and stop 21st century Nazi ruSSians.

@@avtozastava6782 I am trying to make a sane point here. You assumed my ethnicity, which is a very wrong thing. But you are wrong, I am not a Serb. My name is very unserbian. My nationality has nothing to do with a remark I said. Again: I cannot take any of the information as unbiased, as it is being affected by the actual political situation. The Western world is not less affected by this propaganda. History Marche is also affected by that, although I respect them as a very reliable source.

@@dubravkokovacevic3489 You sound same as any pro ruSSian guy, you just should snap out of your illusions about ruSSia, it is not powerful the best of the best country, quite the opposite, it is prison and global evil, and no western propaganda is nothing compared to russian, silly for you to even try to persuade someone about it.

@@avtozastava6782 please learn to discuss at the same level as me, then I'll be glad to answer your questions. The conflict of opinions lies in the very core of the modern Western Civilization and you are not communicating in that spirit.

If you are from Europe and have such stupid opinions then I can recommend you to get to your loved ruSSia and live there, also you can't even call russian invasion of Ukraine a war, cause you clearly are already brainwashed by ruso propaganda, also why the hell shouldn't west tell the true about ruSSia ? It is terrorist country which is terrorising whole Europe with nuclear weapons and threatening to destroy largest nuclear power plant, so yes it is only right to write in bad tone about ruSSia cause nothing good comes from that forsaken country.

iam guessing they didnt have allies right ?

Napoleon arguably committed himself to a similar aim and really only lost to the viability Fabian tactics before boarder-spanning frontlines existed.

@@arishemghoul9571 the allies of the Germans were pathetic we can say. None of their offensive worked and they were on the defensive the whole war

@@bedouinknight9437 I'd even say Germany would have better chances if Austria and the Ottomas stayed neutral (as buffer zones). Germany basically had to carry those two in WW1, especially the Ottoman Navy was basically non-existent.

@@bedouinknight9437 You are wrong. When Russia was conquered, Germany was exhausted and the Allies have a huge material advantage even without Russia. Germany's defeat was a matter of process - years of war of destruction, not a single event or coincidence. Besides, the fact that history focuses on the Germans doen't mean that the role of the German allies was negligible. In fact, Ottomans and Austria-Hungary had fought off attacks by the Allies - Italians, Russians and British for years.