The poles bitch-slapped Russia a lot of times as well, one time forcing the Tsar in Muscovy to kneel before the king of Poland.Īnd no matter how many Russian nationalists (my father included, blyat) deny it the vikings really enjoyed taking a stroll up and down the Russian rivers to the Baltic. Sweden managed to make surprising headway, before the Russian army managed to outmaneuver them, and starve them out with scorched earth policies. ( Go on, ask any Muscovite how hot their summer are. He start with 400,000 troops, losing all but 100,000 by the time he reached Moscow, all that in the surprisingly harsh and inhospitable russian summer.
Napoleon lost way more people in Summer than in Winter. Hitler loss had nothing to do with the winter, by the time the german army started feeling the sting of winter, they've already lost, would it be summer or winter. There are Harsher winters in Europe, and many attacking forces were used to far worse winters. Winter in Russia is, historically speaking, Bullcrap.
