Russia’s favorite Western Russophile, Dr. Stephen Cohen, was recently interviewed on Russia Insider and made a remarkable statement.
Stephen Cohen: Not This Many Troops on Russia’s Border Since Hitler Attacked USSR
Dear Dr. Cohen. Four MILLION Axis soldiers invaded Russia in Operation Barbarossa in June 1941.
Talk about a vast overstatement, fear mongering and the gross abuse of numbers to make a point. Dr. Cohen, your number is not only wrong, it’s wrong by several orders of magnitude.
I was stationed in then West Germany in the 1980s, during the Cold War. We had approximately five US Army divisions stationed in West Germany to counter a Soviet and East German invasion. Please see the illustration to the left. Those two bigger patches, that look like the Chrysler symbol (Fifth Corps) and the one with a Roman Number VII inside the heptagram (Seventh Corps), are Corp headquarters, under which the five Divisions worked. The horsey-looking patch and the green French looking patch were cavalry regiments, meant to screen and detect a Soviet invasion. In the north was 3rd Armored Division and 8th Infantry Division. In the south was 3rd Infantry Divsion, 1st Armored Divsion, and 1st Infantry Division.
The British, of course, were north of the US sector and French forces were in France.
Dr. Cohen, I know you did not research your statement before you spouted off, you intended to make a sound bite for Russian television. Not surprisingly the Western press did not pick up on your statement. Good for them.
A current, 2016, response to your ill informed statement can be made using yet another picture.
As can plainly be seen in this picture is that not even one US Army Division is in Europe. A Division, for your non-military information, Dr. Cohen, is approximately 15,000 soldiers. There are a bunch of Brigades, and separate Brigades, but that still does not add up to the number of soldiers during the Cold War and certainly does not add up to four million Axis troops about to invade the Soviet Union.
Dr. Cohen, you’ve been called Putin’s mouthpiece in the West for years. If I were him, I’d reign you in before you state something awfully stupid, like the Russian Armed Forces are the most powerful in the world.
Once again, Russia failed, Russia lies.
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