The Red Army suffered heavy losses during Operation Barbarossa, but it also inflicted heavy losses on the Wehrmacht. This means it was not just some helpless giant, but it also begs the questions, why were the losses so high? This video discusses several factors and refers heavily to current academic research namely from Alexander Hill and David Stahel. Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction to military history, but also contain a lot of details for history buffs. Since the aim is to keep the episodes short and comprehensive some details are often cut. »» GET OUR BOOK: Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 German/English - http://www.hdv470-7.com/ » HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT MILITARY HISTORY VISUALIZED « (A) You can support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv (B) You can support me via Paypal donations: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TFHEY4P4YU3NY (C) You can also buy "Spoils of War" (merchandise) in the online shop: https://www.redbubble.com/people/mhvis/shop » SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS « facebook: https://www.facebook.com/milhistoryvisualized/ twitter: https://twitter.com/MilHiVisualized tumblr: http://militaryhistoryvisualized.tumblr.com/ » SOURCES « Hill, Alexander: The Red Army and the Second World War Stahel, David: Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg – Band 4 Germany and the Second World War – Volume 4 Glantz, David M.: The Soviet-German War 1941-1945: Myths and Realities: A Survey Essay Jordan B. Peterson: 2017 Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower https://youtu.be/T4fjSrVCDvA?t=2h17m23s » TOOL CHAIN « PowerPoint 2016, Word, Excel, Tile Mill, QGIS, Processing 3, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition, Adobe Photosho