I Have To Have The School Supplies Lot For East Union 6 Th Grade

How was the food supply in East Germany?

Staples like grain, those were pretty good. You could find them quite easily. It’s easy to do the math to figure out how much of the staples a person on average consumes, and then scale up the math for the food distribution in a planned economy, especially for an era without the kind of computers that have so much information on you specifically that we know today.The types of produce and goods that are much more seasonal, for a special treat, most foreign fruit, those sorts of things, you can’t really predict this very accurately, and with food, there is little ability to store fresh produce without a lot of refrigeration or dry freezing, which goes against the idea of fresh of course, and this was in an era before GMOs made food a lot more resilient and grow in climates and situations that you would not normally expect them to grow, like tropical coffee in a northern East Germany. A planned economy has much more difficulty with predicting exactly who wants what without really thorough statistical information.There is an important exception. The moments right after WW2. The Soviets despised the Germans as you might expect, and so did what they could to enact victors’ justice, including underfeeding your prisoners. That would change as the goal of the Soviets went from punishment to creating a state that would prevent the capitalist allies from invading Russia across flat and vulnerable western plains.And also right after the unification, the East German economy was devastated. Nobody had the faintest idea how to use capitalism. At all. People’s retirement and social services, medical services, those went under. Rent went up for many, rapid privatization meant people spending more money which they didn’t have enough of, so getting food could easily be a challenge to most people. The transition was very painful for many families, and poorly executed.

During World War II, if Germany had invaded the Soviet Union two months earlier, would Germany have won the war?

The perception of Operation Barbarossa seems to be widely flawed among most people. People believe that the Russian winter and rasputitsa (muddy season) completely derailed the German juggernaut but this was not really the case, while it is true that after the muddy season only 1 in 10 German tanks was functional and the rest were cannibalised for parts, it was the strategy that the Germans opted for that really killed them in the end. Army group south was ordered to take Kiev and was later re-designated army group Ukraine in 1942 and while they took 450,000 Russian POW’s, the russians managed to build back this army in a matter of months. The germans throughout the war at this point opted for quick lightning blitzkrieg attacks into enemy territory so I don't understand why the opted for a siege in Leningrad, a 900 day siege to be exact, even though the Germans brought with them their knowledge of trenches from the first world war and were thus able to live through the Russian winters in relative peace they still failed to capture leningrad and bring the 1 million russian defenders to surrender, they lost thousands of men in order to try to take Leningrad which apart from its port had little to offer other than a symbolic victory. Army group center took the biggest beating especially at Stalingrad where they were led into a trap. Stalin had heard from his spy in Tokyo that the Japanese were not going to attack Russian again like they did in 1938 at Khalkin Ghol, but were instead going to attack south at pearl harbor, this allowed stalin to take his experienced siberian armies and bring them down to stalingrad, Zhukov then initiated operation Uranus in which he attacked the flanks of the German 6th army that was protected by poorly equipped lithuanian and romanina troops, they were no match for the crack russian troops and soon enough the german 6th army found itself locked in a pocket of death.So to be honest it really would not have mattered if the Germans had attacked 2 months earlier because it would not have changed their tactics and strategies.