WEBVTT - Slow Creep 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.560 You don't have to dip forever. You know that, Ryan, 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.760 you don't have to smoke forever. And the reason I 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:09.160 say it like that is I have been that guy. 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:12.600 I've been that guy. I dipped for so long, and 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:14.520 what would happen is I would decide I'm gonna quit. 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:16.800 It's bad for me. I'm gonna quit. I'm a man, 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.120 I don't need any help. I'm just gonna quit cold turkey. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.120 And I would fail time and time and time again. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.240 I tried things like the patch, it didn't work, gum, 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.280 sunflower seeds. I tried at all. It's just a matter 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.160 of finding the right thing to help you quit. That's 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.479 Jake's mintschew. Go put in your dip. 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Hear me out going somewhere with him. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:39.959 If I were to hand you a rifle when you 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.319 could shoot, so if you don't know how to shoot, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:48.200 just assume I magically gave you those powers. And I 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:53.200 pointed out a bad guy to you two hundred yards away, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:02:00.880 two football fields, and I told you to kill him. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.920 Do you think you could do it? Now? This is 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:08.040 not murder, whatever the circumstances, it's completely justified. Picture the 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.560 worst scum in the world. It's a pedophile two hundred 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:17.080 yards away, completely legal. You're in no trouble. Do you 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:22.800 think you could do it? Could you make yourself look 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:27.480 down those sites and pull the trigger? Producer Chris says yes. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.519 I'm sure many of you say yes. I'm sure many 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:37.920 of you say no. But how many half my audience 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.560 I'd say said yes? Now? As soon as I pointed 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.520 out it was a pedophile, that number probably went up 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:51.120 a little bit. Let's guess. Let's guess seventy no legal ramifications, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:59.480 some guy who hurts kids. Boom. Don Now, let me 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:05.960 ask you this if I were to hand you a pistol, 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.560 not a rifle, a pistol, and I were to lock 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.600 you in an elevator with that man. He can't hurt you. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.880 But I were to lock you in an elevator with him. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.160 He's allowed to talk to you. Did you do it? 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.840 Think about that, Think about the difference in what happens 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.320 right next to him in the elevator. No matter what 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.480 he's done. You hear him talk, You hear him beg, 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.400 You hear him cry, You hear him scream, You hear 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:50.800 him yell. You can smell him, you can see the 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.080 whites of his eyes. I bring up smelling because it's 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:58.320 something people never think about. You don't really think about 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.760 it unless you make yourself think about it. It's the 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.080 one thing you can't get as far as information goes anymore. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.760 We have endless I've got my radio show, we got podcasts, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.040 we got TV, we got everything. But you can't smell it. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:14.440 You can see it, you could hear it, you can't 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:19.560 smell it. How much did that number go down when 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:27.920 I put you in the elevator. Probably a lot. There's 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:38.760 something uniquely terrible about urban warfare. Tell you a brief 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.479 story before we kick off our official story for the day. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:48.520 I was in the Marine Corps Infantry and you train 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.360 all the time as an infantry guy. We're always and 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.960 I was stationed in twenty nine Palms, and we're always 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.120 going out to the middle of the desert doing all 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.120 these live fire exercises and shoots, and your pract to 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.680 sing this and practicing that, and you can change mags 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.119 and put rounds down range and in your mind, pretty 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:12.479 pretty good, right, I can handle this. In our mind. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.880 Our Marine Corps Infantry Infantry platoon, we're the cock of 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:25.520 the block running things around here. Pretty tough, right. They 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:27.840 started to get an inkling that we were going to 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:32.880 go to war in Iraq. And our company first sergeant, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:38.479 he's the head enlisted guy of your company. He sets 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:43.320 something up for us. He sets up this. We are 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:50.560 going to change out our M sixteen. You can, you can, briefly, 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.360 it's difficult to describe. You remove a part of your 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.880 M sixteen and put a new part on it. And 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.440 what it does is it shoots little nine millimeter bullets. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.000 But they're paintballs. And now this is not paintball. You 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.040 have to it'll break the skin. It's a nine millimeter 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.159 round only the end of it that shoots his paint. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.039 So you have to wear goggles, you have to wear 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:17.240 a cut protector to protect the old boys. It's so 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.600 we change all those out and at night he sets 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.920 us up in this house in twenty nine palms, and 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.800 what we have to do is we are going to 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.839 march in formation down to the house with our retro 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.280 fitt at m sixteens. We call them sim rounds. By 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:38.679 the way. We're going to one platoon at a time. 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.520 We are going to assault this house. There are people 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.240 in this house to defend it also with weapons that 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.520 use SIM rounds. You're following me. How many people were 0:06:52.560 --> 0:07:00.280 in this house? Believe there were five five. We had 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:07.280 platoons of roughly thirty a little bit more, and one 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:15.840 by one at night NVGs the works. We poured into 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:22.560 this home to assault it. Most platoons did not last 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:27.320 longer than two minutes before everybody was dead. Everybody was dead. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:36.520 Nobody lasted four The defenders barely lost a man all 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:41.360 night long. We are not a bunch of pencil pencil 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:45.640 pushers here. This is not a bunch of accountants. This 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:53.040 was a highly trained infantry marine platoon first sergeant, by 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.680 the way, did that as a lesson to us of 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:58.680 how much we needed to learn about urban warfare, room clearing, 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:04.480 things like that, how difficult it is to walk into 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:09.280 a building, especially if you're facing anybody who even slightly 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.880 knows what they're doing, to walk into a building and 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:25.239 walk out alive. Now I want you to picture this Stalingrad. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.360 You've heard the name. You may even know the battle 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.200 I'm talking about. If you don't know the Battle of Stalingrad, 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:39.640 you do need to know this. It is unquestionably the 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:45.040 largest battle and the history of mankind. Nothing else is 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.280 even close to second, except for maybe the Battle of Moscow, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.800 which took place in the same campaign. This is obviously 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.680 part of Hitler's invasion of Russia. This is the end 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:01.080 of Hitler's invasion of Russia. And when I say the 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:09.040 largest battle of all time, remember this. Total US deaths 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.160 in war is about one point four million. That's all 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.480 the wars we've ever fought combined, including Civil War, which 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:21.520 is like six hundred thousand of that. That's about what 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:28.680 the Soviets lost at Stalingrad alone, one battle. Germans too, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:34.959 they are almost a million. It's so vast in its carnage. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:40.320 It's hard to put into words. I really want you, 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:44.079 as you're listening, if you're not driving, I really want 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:48.839 you to Google image Stalingrad so you can picture this 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.319 because there are so many pictures of it. Bear in mind, 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:54.640 you're going to see quite a bit of death in there. 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.760 You're going to see dead bodies, You're gonna see frozen 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:01.040 dead bodies. Is just the worst placed in the history 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:05.640 of the world. So how did we ever get to 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:11.840 a battle where two million people died? Roughly? How does that? 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:18.840 How does that happen in one battle? Well, it happened 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.439 like so many major, major things happened. Do you want 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:49.240 to know how it happened? Play in a second? How 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:53.800 God antimally thide of me? Says Jesse Kelly. Don't listening 0:10:53.880 --> 0:11:03.320 to the Jesse Kelly Show. You need more security, more 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.280 security in your home and I'm talking about your internet. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.120 That's why you need more security. I know what you 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.439 were thinking. I got plenty of security. I got I 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.000 got the door locks, I got the alarms, I got 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.400 my pistol. We're ready to go. Yeah, but do you 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.640 have Express VPN yet? Because if you don't have Express VPN. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.360 Then don't tell me you have enough security. The truth is, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.720 without Express VPN, every time you get online, no matter 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.280 what you do, private browser, no private browser, whatever your 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.320 kids do. Anytime you're online in your home, your Internet 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:42.600 service provider sees all of it, all of it. Take 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.800 that in for a moment. Unless you have Express VPN. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.679 If you have Express VPN, you're totally anonymous. Yeah, that's 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.640 what I thought. Go to Express vpn dot com slash jesse. 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:56.959 You actually get three months free if you do that 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:18.080 Express vpn dot com slash jesse. How does one get 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:27.200 to a massive, massive carnage battle with two million dead people, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:36.480 Well slowly, you see. At no point in the beginning 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:42.319 of World War Two would Stalin or Hitler, would either 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.319 of them ever even imagine, ever even dreamed of being 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.120 involved in a battle like this. But things take time. 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:57.600 You know about Hitler invading the Soviet Union, I told 0:12:57.640 --> 0:12:59.320 you about it before we talked about it. I don't 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.640 have to belay for the point, but you do need 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:09.320 to understand how much the Soviets hated Stalin. Huge portions 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.960 of the Soviets despise Stalin, despise the Bolsheviks for obvious reasons. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.800 And remember Stalin was murdering and starving people to death 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.560 pretty much immediately after he took power. It's not as 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:22.880 if Stalin woke up one day and became a monster. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.520 Remember Stalin maybe the worst person to ever live. Stalin 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.360 was a murderer long before he ever had power. He 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:34.280 got off on it then. I don't mean ordering other people. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:42.000 Stalin would personally kill you without hesitation. So the Nazis 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:48.240 had this prime, prime opportunity when invading the Soviet Union. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:55.560 You realize the Nazis could have won that fairly easily 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:04.079 the people. Initially, when Germany invaded Russia, the women would 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.679 bring out platters, wooden platters of bread and butter and 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:14.280 cheese to the troops. People would throw flowers at the Nazis, 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:21.640 thanking them for quote liberating them from Stalin. And do 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.680 you know what Hitler did next? Hitler began to attach 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:32.040 SS units murder units to his army units. Remember, everybody 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.800 in the German army was not a Nazi. There were 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:38.160 many just German soldiers. Everybody in the in the German 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.000 command was not a Nazi, at least at least initially. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.440 Many of these were just long experienced German generals, many 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:50.680 of them experienced from World War One. However, there were 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.600 special Nazi units set up. You see, if you take 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.160 a group of German soldiers who grow up wanting to 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.440 be Germans soldiers in they're in the German military, there's 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.520 a good chance they're going to balk At being told 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.840 to line up women and children and shoot them in 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.560 the back of the head because their Jews. So what 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.040 do you do, Well, you don't have to make them, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.760 have them take the village, then have them be relieved 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.160 by the special SS unit you have attached, and let 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.160 the soldiers run along. Hey, we'll catch up in a 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:34.800 few bang bang bang bang. You see, as the people 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:40.480 came out and began greeting the Germans as liberators, Hitler, 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:47.240 so poisoned by racial hatred, couldn't see, couldn't tell what 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.080 was right in front of him, and what was right 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.560 in front of him was the destruction, the end of 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:56.640 the Soviet Union in a victory. He couldn't see it. 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:01.120 So instead he begins hunting all the people down, murdering 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:05.280 all these people, and then the people just decide, well, 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:11.200 screw it, I'll just fight for Stalin. Then that was mistake. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:19.280 Number one, Well, mistake number fifty. Hitler begins to micromanage 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.840 the invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler had all these 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.960 megamegamega experienced generals, and understand this. The Nazis, the Germans, 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.600 I should say, had some incredible generals in World War 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:37.359 One and World War Two. The problem is again blinded 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:44.680 by hatred, poisoned by racial division. Hitler would sack his 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:49.760 best generals and put some Nazi in place who was 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.200 not even close to capable. I know you're not going 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:54.880 to be surprised by this, but so many of the Nazis. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.320 There were some brilliant ones, but so many of the 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.560 Nazis were idiots. They didn't know what they were doing. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.880 They got their position of power because they were Nazis, 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.320 and no other reason. They sucked. They weren't capable, They 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:12.879 didn't rise because of how capable they were. And they 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.119 charge on, and they charge on, and they have the 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.760 Battle of Moscow, which I've talked to you about before, 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.879 which they lost. They pull back, they regroup and they 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:28.840 focus on a place on the Volga River known as Stalingrad. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.720 It's Volga Grad today, but known as Stalingrad. And if 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.920 you want a picture where it is. If you don't 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:39.199 have a map in front of you, go from west 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.720 to east, invading the Soviet Union, nearly go about all 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.960 the fourth of the way across the country, and then 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:53.080 head due south down there's where Stalingrad is, and Stalingrad was, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.199 as I said, situated on the Volga River. And when 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.400 I say situated on the Volga River, I mean it's 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.639 on the Volga River. It backs right up to it, 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.639 and it's there for a very specific reason. Hitler knew this. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:12.680 Obviously Stalin knew this. That city became a major city 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:17.399 because it was the pipeline from the oil fields to 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:21.520 the rest of the Soviet Union. It was essentially the 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.520 power lines, which is why Hitler wanted it, which is 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:32.080 why Stalin knew people it had to be defended. If 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.440 you could cut the supply lines of any enemy, what 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:39.200 if we always told you about supply lines that old 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.960 saying someone else came up with. Amateurs study tactics, professionals 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:48.159 study logistics. A country like the Soviet Union will simply 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.480 implode if it can't eat, if it doesn't have gasoline 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.879 to run. All those amazing T thirty four Soviet tanks, 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.320 which were the best tanks in the war. Hitler takes 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:06.200 off for Stalingrad. Hitler gets to Stalingrad. Now you need 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:11.280 to know about order two to seven. Order two to 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:18.719 seven was this Stalin began to micromanage a lot himself. 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:24.879 The Soviet Union paid dearly for Stalin's purges of military 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:29.080 leadership and everyone else, because again, if Stalin suspected you 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.480 of anything, he'd have you shot in the back of 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.879 the head. You didn't have to be guilty of it. 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.720 And there ended up being a lot of very, very 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.800 very capable generals who were not only sacked from their post, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.720 but flat out murdered. It's kind of funny. One of 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:48.120 the generals in Stalingrad fighting for Stalin is somebody he'd 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.920 previously arrested and torture. They'd knocked all his teeth out. 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.399 He had a mouthful of mental teeth, like jaws from 0:19:54.400 --> 0:20:00.359 the James Bond movies. Not making that up. So Stalin 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.800 was a micromanager, and Stalin's army, initially in the Soviet 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:09.119 Union was taking a beating. Now they were taking a 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.520 beating because the weather was better, and the Nazi blitzkrieg 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.280 really needs good weather so the tanks can slice and 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.560 dash and get to where they're going in a hurry. 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.560 The point of a blitzkrieg is speed. Everything is about speed. 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.800 Get somewhere quickly, have your enemy office heels. Before you 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:31.919 know it, he's surrounded, he's annihilated. Well, that works fine 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:36.000 when you're out on the plains of Nebraska. When it 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.640 starts to get muddy, when it starts to freeze, when 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.080 it starts to get cold, that's a lot more difficult. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.920 So the Soviets had beaten off the Germans up in Moscow. 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.000 Now the Germans had their eyes set on Stalin grad 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.840 in Order two to seven. Back to that was this 0:20:55.240 --> 0:21:00.280 Stalin did not like the tactical retreat. Even so it 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:04.200 was unquestionably the smartest move so much of the time 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:09.600 for the Soviets. Remember what we talked about, was it yesterday? 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.800 We were talking about George Washington and the tactical retreat 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.200 and how that was one of his specialties. No, let's 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.560 not get everyone killed, let's live to fight another day. 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:26.040 A nice, orderly retreat, we'll be back tomorrow. Well, that's 0:21:26.119 --> 0:22:05.320 good generalship, that's intelligence. Hang on Order two to seven 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:11.920 from Stalin was it was something he didn't like the 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:17.000 fact that his generals were constantly backing away, constantly giving 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:19.480 up ground, even though when you're a country the size 0:22:19.520 --> 0:22:22.639 of Russia, that's clearly the smartest thing to do. Just 0:22:22.840 --> 0:22:24.879 keep backing up and let him get sucked in and 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:29.800 let the winner kill him. So Order two two seven 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:39.080 was essentially this, we don't back up another inch. We 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:43.439 are going to take our penal units. They had penal 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:47.800 units for anybody who ever ran away, anybody who ever retreated, 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:52.879 you would be punished placed in a penal unit. They 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:55.720 would then take the penal units and put them in 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.880 the most dangerous parts of the line at all times, 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.440 so they can quote quote redeem themselves from their for 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:11.680 their cowardice. It also involved creating entire squads that were 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.600 murder squads. They would stand behind all the units on 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:21.920 the front and their one job was to shoot anybody 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:28.119 who turned around to retreat in their own army. I 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:33.600 don't mean once. By the time Stalingrad was over, these 0:23:33.760 --> 0:23:40.919 squads had murdered thirteen thousand of their own countrymen one battle. 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:45.760 Thirteen thousand. They were so fanatical about it. If you 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:51.080 were in a foxhole with somebody and he got up 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:55.240 to run away and you didn't shoot him, you would 0:23:55.280 --> 0:24:02.840 be shot. Yeah, Stalin, obviously this is an ugly order. 0:24:02.920 --> 0:24:06.520 Obviously it's terrible. You don't want this. But if you 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:09.520 have to give the murderous psychopath any credit in the 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:14.320 very least, at least Stalin understood, we really cannot lose 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:20.399 Stalingrad period. At one point in time, Nikita Kruscheff, if 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:24.520 that name sounds familiar, the man who took over after Stalin, 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:27.760 Nikita Kruscheff, was a veteran of Stalingrad, and at one 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:32.119 point he brings in the Stalingrad commander and says, what 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:35.080 do you think your orders are? Here? And a guy says, 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:38.440 keep the city or die trying, and he said, yep, 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:40.400 you pretty much figured it out, have a good one. 0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:50.560 That's the order. Now the German Army closes in on Stalingrad, 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:53.399 and what did they do. Well, they did what they 0:24:54.480 --> 0:25:00.240 always done, and they really shouldn't have done. They sent 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:04.080 in that great German LUFWAFFA, the Great German Air Force, 0:25:04.600 --> 0:25:10.160 and they bomb Stalingrad to smithereens. What they were trying 0:25:10.320 --> 0:25:14.320 to do was intimidate the Soviets into backing away and 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:18.480 giving it up. They did not seem to grasp the 0:25:18.640 --> 0:25:21.720 concept that there was nothing you could do to make 0:25:21.800 --> 0:25:25.200 the Soviets give it up. Well, if that's the case, 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:28.119 if you know the Soviets aren't going to give it up, 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:32.679 what you've just done is create for yourself as an 0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:37.440 invading force and absolute living Hell. Let's go back to 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.320 the beginning of the show again. Do you remember that 0:25:40.640 --> 0:25:43.680 one building we tried to take as an infantry platoon, 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:48.000 five guys inside getting mopped up. Now I want you 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:54.840 to picture a bombed out entire city with sellers, buildings, 0:25:55.359 --> 0:25:58.639 roads blocked off so your tanks can't get down, some 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:05.520 intentional some otherwise. The water's now bad. You're destroying your 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:12.200 own supplies. And oh did I mention these Russians were intelligent? 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:14.800 By this point. This is late enough in the war 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:19.680 that all the all the idiot generals Stalin had were 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:23.000 beginning to be replaced by young hotshots who knew what 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:28.919 they were doing ruthlessly efficient, including probably the greatest general 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:32.439 of all World War two. As much as that pains 0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:33.720 me to say it, do you know how much I 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:39.760 love our patents and whatnot, But Zukov, General Zukov, probably 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:42.160 the best general of the entire war. If you don't 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:46.600 know about him, looking him up, he's incredible man. Not 0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:48.680 the kindest human being in the world, mind you, but 0:26:49.680 --> 0:26:56.920 a general, a great man general. But the German army 0:26:57.200 --> 0:27:01.159 is no joke either, and they begin to push into 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:11.080 Stalingrad and it is hell. It is a living hell. 0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:18.680 The stories, the individual stories out of there a nightmare, 0:27:18.840 --> 0:27:22.000 and the Soviets, to their credit again they were smart 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:27.040 by this point in time, decided to intentionally make it 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:32.960 terrifying for the Germans, not just not just bullets wise, 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:36.919 they wanted the Germans to be mortified at all times. 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:40.520 So they enacted a policy of this. They called it 0:27:40.760 --> 0:27:45.760 hugging the enemy. The commander in Stalingrad ordered that at 0:27:45.920 --> 0:27:50.000 no time would his units be more than a certain 0:27:50.119 --> 0:27:52.440 distance away from the Germans. Most of the time it 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:56.480 was fifty yards one hundred yards, so the Germans one 0:27:56.880 --> 0:27:59.800 couldn't use the Lofwaffer to bomb the Russians because they 0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:03.720 their own troops. In two you're in a constant state 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:08.359 of anxiety because they're right there. The Russians would do 0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:11.600 things like attack at night with these wee little mini 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:16.639 spy planes. The Germans called them a sewing machine because 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:19.160 of how their little engines sounded, and what they would 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:21.360 do is they'd attach it a small, not even a big, 0:28:21.400 --> 0:28:24.320 a tiny little bomb to this tiny little spy plane 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:27.119 and fly it over the German trenches at night and 0:28:27.240 --> 0:28:30.040 drop them in. You're constantly horrified to hear it coming. 0:28:33.720 --> 0:28:37.120 The Russians used the bombed out streets to their advantage. 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:41.360 They would create murder tunnels where they would take a 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:45.360 building they'd loaded up with their infantry with anti tank weapons. 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:48.400 The Germans would try to go down that way, they 0:28:48.480 --> 0:28:51.440 would divert because it was too much heat coming from 0:28:51.480 --> 0:28:55.320 that building that way, only they'd divert into a street 0:28:55.400 --> 0:28:59.520 the Russians wanted them down that they'd mined the night before, 0:29:01.480 --> 0:29:09.680 blowing off legs, burning people, bombs emerging from sellers, going 0:29:09.800 --> 0:29:12.040 back down below. Are you starting to get some kind 0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:14.720 of an idea what it's like? And this didn't last 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:25.760 an hour, ladies and gentlemen, This lasted months months. There 0:29:25.800 --> 0:29:31.280 are stories because the Germans were advancing still, even with 0:29:31.440 --> 0:29:34.240 all this. To their credit, they were advancing still, But 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:38.280 there are stories where they would work hard, would lose 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:40.920 so many men to take a building and failure. They'd 0:29:40.960 --> 0:29:43.760 take it and they'd kill all the Soviets inside, and 0:29:43.920 --> 0:29:46.560 then as soon as they'd leave, the Soviets would reoccupy 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:48.200 and they'd have to go take it again. And that 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:53.640 is demoralizing Vietnam veterans, if you ever get a chance 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:56.040 to talk to them, actually talk about that exact thing, 0:29:56.080 --> 0:29:59.640 how demoralizing that is. They they'd pick a hill seemingly 0:29:59.720 --> 0:30:02.800 at and I'm take this hill, and they charge up 0:30:02.840 --> 0:30:04.760 the hill, and it's the hardest thing in the world 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:07.200 to fight up hill. And they have this vicious battle 0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:09.120 and you see all your friends die, and you'd go 0:30:09.280 --> 0:30:12.880 through this meat grinder and you take the hill. And 0:30:13.000 --> 0:30:15.160 then virtually the next day they'd say all right, we're leaving, 0:30:15.200 --> 0:30:17.600 and you turn around and they reoccupied the hill you 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:21.720 just bled for. It's a devastating psychological feeling. It does 0:30:21.800 --> 0:30:29.560 matter a lot. But the Germans are advancing, kay, They 0:30:29.640 --> 0:30:34.720 are advancing until they have essentially pushed all the Soviets 0:30:35.320 --> 0:30:38.880 to a strip by the Volga. Remember the layout of 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:42.120 the city. The city backs up to the Volga. The 0:30:42.280 --> 0:30:45.920 Volga is the barrier. They have pushed the Soviet army 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:54.080 back to there. But remember Zukov a great general. He 0:30:54.240 --> 0:31:01.200 has a plan too. One the Germans are starting to 0:31:01.200 --> 0:31:06.120 get a little chilly again. Winter is almost here. Two. 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:12.560 The Germans have flanks and there aren't German troops on 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:36.960 those flanks. Hang on truth attitude, Jesse Kelly. We need 0:31:37.080 --> 0:31:40.720