So Company of Heroes 2 comes out today. And as the sequel to highest-rated RTS game of all time, we thought it’d be fun to watch comrade Serrels – who’s new to the RTS genre — play through the first few levels over his lunch break. So that’s what we did at 12pm today and to keep you on your toes, we gave away box copies of the special Red Star Edition every five minutes during the hour of Mark’s play through. So who won?
Company of Heroes 2 is set amongst the wintery trenches on the Eastern Front of World War II. In fact, weather now plays an important part in the game. And the Soviet Red Army is now playable.
Mark is new to RTS but he and Ben got a heads-up on Company of Heroes 2’s new line-of-sight fog of war mechanic at E3 a couple of weeks ago, so he at least has some sort of preparation.
How To Win
Every 5 minutes during the live stream (from 12pm AEST to 1pm AEST today Tuesday June 25), we updated this very post with questions about the history of World War II for you to answer in the comments section.
Our judges looked for the best, most well-written, and perhaps non-copy/pasted answer (not necessarily the first). Winners below.
Multiple entries allowed, but judges decision is final.
Terms and conditions (and times for each 5 minute question round) here.
Questions & Winners!
Question 1 + 2 (12:05-12:10): Two copies to give away on this one only!
On what precise date did Operation Barbarossa begin?
Winner 1: @raestoz: Operation Barbarossa commenced on the 22nd June 1941at 3.15am
Winner 2: @Juststu82: June 22, 1941
Question 3 (12:11-12:15): How many million casualties did the Soviet armies suffer during World War II?
Winner: @Canada: Approximately 26.6 million casualties civilian and military with 8.7 million being military
Question 4 (12:16-12:20): Every German invasion of a foreign country during World War II was given a musical theme, what was the theme song for Operation Barbarossa?
Winner: @ynefel: Les Preludes by Franz Lizst. Stay classy, Germany.
Question 5 (12:21-12:25): What does ‘Barbarossa’ mean in Latin?
Winner: @dalburgers: Barbarossa means ‘red beard’ Also a German King and Holy Roman Emperor.
Question 6 (12:26-12:30): On what date did the Battle for Smolensk begin?
Winner: @Tacs: On the 6th of July, 1941, the Soviets launched a counter offensive to try and stall the German advance, which was somewhat obliterated. This led to the Germans launching an offensive on the 10th of July, 1941, which started the Battle of Smolensk.
Question 7 (12:31-12:35): Name five countries involved in Operation Barbarossa
Winner: @ jumbino: Q7) Five countries involved in Operation Barbarossa were Croatia, Slovakia, Finland, Hungary and Italy. The Finnish have a peculiar manner of cursing, which involves telling people they don’t get along with to ‘go ski into a (insert hard/rude/pointy/fiery object here)’; an idiom which I am sure got used a lot during Operation Barbarossa.
Question 8 (12:36-12:40): To the nearest hundred thousand, how many Casualties did the Axis armies suffer in Operation Barbarossa?
Winner: @ esaj: 802,000 deaths recorded 831,000 missing in action and wounded in action. The outcome was that it totally screwed the German war machine.
Question 9 (12:41-12:45): When did Operation Typhoon begin?
Winner: @ juniglee: Operation Typhoon started on 30 September 1941 with the attack of the troops from the 2nd Armoured Group on positions of the Bryansk Front. The offensive only began on 2nd October 1941 however.
Question 10 (12:46-12:50): During the battle of Stalingrad there was a reported three day sniper battle between two accomplished marksmen — can you name the two snipers who were reportedly involved?
Winner: @derrick: Major Erwin Koning and Vasily Zaytsev. Koning was specifically despatched to the battlefield to kill Zaytsev – apparently there is some debate as to whether Koning actually existed – either way Zaytsev was accompanied into the field by another Soviet sniper, Nikolai Kulikov.
Question 11 (12:51-12:55): How many people have received the award ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’, the highest possible distinction in the Soviet Union?
Winner: @nomad: 12,755 people have received the Hero of the Soviet Union medal, however 20 of these have had it stripped from them.
Question 12 (12:56-1:00): FINAL QUESTION
Can you name the three people who have received this award four time?
Winner: @loquay: No. The Hero of the Soviet Union has only been awarded four times to two people these are Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev
BONUS: We’re also giving a copy of CoH2 Red Star Edition to @trjn and @F4ction for their unexpected (and hugely helpful) tips and comments on the twitch.tv stream page.
Thanks to Five Star Games (who is looking after CoH 2 in Australia) for helping us secure a couple of extra boxes. You guys rock.
Company of Heroes 2 Red Star Edition
On sale this week, the Red Star Edition includes:
• Exclusive Steelbook Packaging
• 24 Skin Vehicle Combo Pack (Customise your vehicles in multiplayer mode)
• Multiplayer Commanders (5 commanders abilities for multiplayer customisation)
• Commander Pass (Unlock an additional 5 multiplayer commanders post launch)
• Theatre of War’ Mini Pack
(Includes Company of Heroes, plus Tales of Valor & Opposing Fronts expansion packs)
• Collector’s Edition Faceplate (with integrated badge.)
Comments
508 responses to “Win! Company Of Heroes 2 Red Star Edition Box Copy, Every 5 Minutes + Mark Plays It Live (Update: Winners!)”
The most exciting part of this is watching Mark play a game he’s rubbish at 😛
Fell in love with Company of Heroes when I got it in a sale sometime last year. Seriously one of the best multi-player RTS I’ve ever played.
I will be patiently waiting for 12pm.
Is the answer Hitler?
Ha.
everything i know about WW2
Hitler was bad
churchill was a drunk smartass.
Don’t forget that Churchill tried to steal the TARDIS and had some Daleks to try and fend off the blitz.
Godwin’s Law didn’t take long this time
Godwin’s law explicitly doesn’t apply to discussions about World War 2.
Vasily Zaytsev and Ed Harris
I think I’m gonna be alone in Scribbletaku at 12. But some things are more important than prizes.
THE DIG?
At least no-one will see you forget to write \o/!
This game inspired me to buy a spanking new gaming laptop to play it. 😀
Its that great.
pumped for this game.. loved the first one 🙂
@markserrels
Are you looking for the correct or best (funniest, wittiest, smartest etc.) answer?
It’s Danny Allen who will be handling that side of things — but I think that’s just a caveat for terms and conditions and legal stuff. Really the questions are quite dry and you won’t need to embellish. Just answer them 🙂
Hey Mark, will the fact that Aussie/Kiwi players can’t play this game now (woo Steam launch errors) be stopping you from streaming or do you have some magical press version or some such?
I guess we’ll find out!
finally all my ww2 history will not go to waste 🙂
Whats the point the game is not up and running at this time people in Australia cant play it just keeps saying preload wait for release yet the game is out
I wish I could actually watch the live stream oh well will still be involved in answer the questions
It’s 12:01 where’s my question?
anyone able to see the chat in twitch or is twich chat disabled?
So, questions?
In-game volume too loud?
questions?
Wait, how many of us are there? Seems like we are all guaranteed at least one copy with these numbers. 😀 I’ll still answer well thou.
heh..12.06..
June 22, 1941
22 June 1941
Question 1 – June 22 1941
Operation Barbarossa commenced on the 22nd June 1941at 3.15am
Q1 and 2: 22 Jun 1941 was the date Hitler invaded the USSR starting operation barbarossa
0315 on Sunday, 22nd of June, 1941 AD.
22nd of June 1941
June 22nd, 1941
Sunday 22 June 1941
Operation Barbarossa began 22 June 1941.
June 22nd, 1941. The same date (this year) they should have released this game.
22nd june 194
22 June 1941
June 22, 1941
22nd of June 1941 when aprox 4 million troops of the powers at the time invaded USSR
22nd June 1941
22nd june 1941 – PS this live feed is crashing my works internet servers!
June 22nd 1941
Operation Barbossa, the codename for Germany’s invation of the Soviet Union, began on the 22nd of June, 1941. On this date, over 4 million soldiers from the combined Axis powers marched along the Soviet front.
opertation barbosa began precisley on June 22nd 1941
June 22 1941
NO WITTY ANSWER HERE
22nd of June 1941. One of the most bloody military operations during WWII.
Operation Barbarossa kicked of on the 22nd June 1941 which was apparently a Sunday.
Q1: 5am June 22nd 1941 (Timezone Greenwich mean time +4 hours) 🙂
Hitler gave the word to start preparing on the 18th Dec, 1940, so that th operation may start on 15th of May, 1941.
However, due to complications, the operation actually started on the 22nd June, 1941.
I flew my fighter over Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941 right as the operation began and lost too many fellow Russians that day.
Operation Barbarossa (Germany’s advance into the Soviet Union) began on 22 June 1941.
All this war and Mark likes that he can see their fingers.
drag big boxes to find your guys – @mark serrels
Is mark playing the review copy or actual steam release?
Question 1 + 2 (12:05- 12:10): Two copies to give away on this one! On what precise date did Operation Barbarossa begin?
22 June, 1941
Poo…time stamp puts me out of the running 🙁
22nd of June when the German’s decided to invade Russia and test there tactic of blitzkrieg to overwhelm the enemy forces. This would stop them mounting a viable defense and capture targets quickly.
A little bit of internet sleuthing (okay, first page Google) informs me that the planning for Operation Barbarossa began on 21 July 1940. While the battle began on 22 June 1941 (wikipedia).
Technically, it could also be argued that it began prior to this, when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact pact was signed (and subsequently breached by Germany) between the Soviets and the Nazis. Interesting!
It began on June 22, 1941 and was the codename for the Nazi’s Germany invasion of Russia it was the largest invasion in the history of warfare with over 4million Axis troops invading Russia across a 2,900 km front.
Operation Barbarossa the largest military attack of World War 2, started on June 22nd, 1941. This Nazi invasion of Russia occurred on the same day that in 1593 Allied Christian troops defeated the Turks at the battle of Sisak.
22/06/1941
3 million
Hi, I answered I hope first in twitch chat, June 22nd, 1941, I think it was at nighttime. Russia and Germany had a truce till then, and Germany attacked with a huge line of army spanning thousands of km
9-14 million deaths.
On what precise date did Operation Barbarossa begin?
Facts- Start Date: 22nd of June 1941 (also the date Franklin Roosevelt signs the GI bill of rights!!) named after Holy Roman Emperor Frederick 1), was apparently the largest invasion in warfare. Also, the invasion used 750k horses. That’s alot of horse crap…
8.7 million
4 million casualties suffered by the Soviets
22 June 1941. Or when over 4 million Nazi scum troops crossed into Soviet territory in the largest invasion in history. The Nazi’s should have listened to the Starks. “Winter is Coming.”
3,137,673 Soviet casualties, though not all fatalities.
Some were just severe maimings 🙁
Over 4 million Military Casualties. Who knows how many if Mark had been in control of the Army.
The German Invasion of the Soviet Union began on the 22nd June, 1941.
Question 3 – Roughly 9-14million
The soviets had “many” million casualties according to the guy in my office. Winning answer right there.
Question 2:
aproximatly 26.6 million casualties civlilian and military with 8.7 million being military
Q2: They estimate 22,000,000. That’s insane how many died!
Q1) although the initial plan had stated the start date to be the 15th of May 1941 this was pushed back, due to the Italy failed campaign in Greece. This forced the OKW to aid them in the Balkan’s.
The opening day of the Barbarossa was started at 03:15am 22nd June 1941.
This delay is one of the many reasons for Germany being defeated by Russia, due to the impact of lost weeks of the summer offensive
the plans for it started on the 21st of july in 1940. initially it was meant to begin on the 15th of may ’41 but the date was pushed back to the 22nd of june. the name also translates to ‘red-beard’ which is kind of fitting for an assault on the USSR
17.9 million civilian causalities
The exact figure is unknown but approx. 9-14 million Soviet soldiers lost their lives in WW2.
THIS MANY MILLION
————————————————————————————————————————————————————————(168 million) (that’s the population…)
APPARENTLY I’M WRONG AND LOOKED AT THE WRONG THING IN MY STATE OF PANIC
——— TO ————– MILLION
4 million in Barbarossa, 10 mil overall in the eastern front WW2
Using my permanent account (rather than guest)
A little bit of internet sleuthing (okay, first page Google) informs me that the planning for Operation Barbarossa began on 21 July 1940. While the battle began on 22 June 1941 (wikipedia).
Technically, it could also be argued that it began prior to this, when the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact pact was signed (and subsequently breached by Germany) between the Soviets and the Nazis. Interesting!
The operation had too many soviet casualties to count if I remember so I’m gonna estimate 15 million
Q2: officially it is recorded as being between 15-20 million casualties, but some researchers believe that it could be as high as 60 million people, combined civilian and military(bit of a discrepency if you ask me, but then I’m no historian).
3:15am 22 June 1941
Question 3: 22 million wounded sick and dead with between 8-9 Million dead and missing
over 3.1 million
for barbarossa that is
9 millllionnn to 14 million
approx 50-70 million total casualties in ww2 9 to 14 million of those were USSR military dead
Russia lost nearly the Australian population 20 million that’s pretty scary. oops I did total for Russia including Civ’s.
The current guesstimate is around 26.6 million casualties which doesn’t include anti-tank dogs.
How many million casualties did the Soviet armies suffer during the World War II?
8.7 million
Q3 – 26.6 million both military and civilians, military – 8.7 million.
The soviets suffered approximately 8.7 million casualties during WW2.
4 million. Roughly a sixth of the current population of Australia.
my mistake 22-30million
26.6m
More than 4 Million Soviet casualties were recorded from Operation Barbarossa, that’s at least half of the casualties suffered by the soldiers currently under Mark Serrels’ command 🙂
26 Million
Q3:
The Soviets lost between 9 to 14 million soldiers during WW2. Which at the time was about 8% of their total population. What a horrible loss of life.
Operation Barbarossa saw over 4 million Soviet casualties… but damn, they lost between 9 to 14 million over the course of WW2.
Estimates put the number well over 20 million, the highest loss for a single nation in WW2.
Although, there is some dispute, 26.6 million consisting of civilians and military personnel were totaled.
9,000,000 to 14milion military casualties were suffered by the USSR during the war.
over 29 million Russian soldiers lost there lives during the WWII period protecting Russia and also the final push into Berlin.
Al Stewart’s song “Road To Moscow” recently, but Les Preludes by Franz Lizt originally
Les Preludes by Franz Lizst.
Stay classy, Germany.
Whatever it was, I’m sure it involved maracas.
It’s hard to determine exact numbers for Soviet military casualties in WWII, due to the large nature of the conflict, and whether you include deaths from soviet purges as well as field casualties. However, estimates vary from between 9 to14 million deaths.
Question 2. I believe, the answer would definitely be above 1.
While the Soviet Unions military suffered a large approximate (It is reported in some places to be much more) 8.7 million casualties, the combined total between Military and Civilian deaths is a massive 26.6 million lives lost.
Roughly 22 million soldiers were wounded or sick in the duration of the war.
Question 3: Over 8 million deaths for the Soviet military.
Les preludes by Franz Liszt
Les Preludes by Frans Liszt.
Question 4 – Was La Preludes by Franz Liszt
Q4: Les Preludes
Les preludes composed by Franz Liszt.
Q3) Les preludes by Franz Liszt
Les preludes by Franz Liszt
Les preludes by Franz Liszt
Germany had a musical theme for each different country they invaded.
4: the theme song for Operation Barbarossa was Les preludes by Franz Liszt
Q4 les preludes
Ride of the Valkyries: every operation ever should have that theme.
Les preludes by Franz Liszt
Russia suffered over 4 million military casualties during the conflict. 465k Red Personnel KIA,
235k non-combat deaths of Red Personnel as a result of disease or accidents, 101k died from wounds inflicted in combat following evacuation, 2mm+ Red Personnel MIA presumed dead and 3mm+ from the Red Army who cannot be accounted for.
Les Preludes, by Lizst.
This piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDEem_aEttE
Question 4: Les Preludes (D’apres Lamartine)
The Soviet armies suffered about 10 million casualties
The “Theme Song” for Operation Barbarossa was Les Preludes which was written by Franz Liszt.
The musical theme for Barbarossa was Les preludes by Franz Liszt who was also a Freemason…
Question: How many million casualties did the Soviet armies suffer during the World War II?
Answer: 30 million deaths of the total 70 million total deaths during WW2 can be attributed to the Eeastern front (that includes extermination camps, death marches, ghettos). Moths of the 30 million that died were not even involved in the war, but civilians caught up in the destruction….
Les preludes by Franz Liszt
I believe the theme song for Operation Barbarossa was Les preludes by Franz Liszt.
the theme song for Operation Barbarossa was Les preludes by Franz Liszt who was a prolific Hungarian piano virtuoso.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnITC-IkPVg Les Preludes
Q4: Les preludes von Franz Liszt.
q#: Les Prelude by Liszt, Liszt was one of Hitler’s favourite composers, along side Wagner
The theme song for the Barbarossa campaign was the haunting ‘Les preludes’ .
q3: Les Prelude by Liszt, Liszt was one of Hitler’s favourite composers, along side Wagner
Les préludes
The preludes
of the mean dudes
who were rude
All I can remember regarding casualties is that it was around 9 million, and I don’t think there was every a truly credible source.
Question 3. Les preludes by Franz Liszt
Which had the following preface:
What else is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown Hymn, the first and solemn note of which is intoned by Death?—Love is the glowing dawn of all existence; but what is the fate where the first delights of happiness are not interrupted by some storm, the mortal blast of which dissipates its fine illusions, the fatal lightning of which consumes its altar; and where is the cruelly wounded soul which, on issuing from one of these tempests, does not endeavour to rest his recollection in the calm serenity of life in the fields? Nevertheless man hardly gives himself up for long to the enjoyment of the beneficent stillness which at first he has shared in Nature’s bosom, and when “the trumpet sounds the alarm”, he hastens, to the dangerous post, whatever the war may be, which calls him to its ranks, in order at last to recover in the combat full consciousness of himself and entire possession of his energy.
Very poetic.
Les preludes by Franz Liszt
Operation Barbarossa, the German operation to invade the Soviet Union, commenced on 22 June 1941 and to date stands as the largest invasion EVER. Despite kicking some ass early on (mainly because the Russians were woefully underequipped and had one rifle to every four men) the USSR was just too bloody big and cold and the Germans were ultimately unable to take Moscow.
I knew I took modern history for reasons other than the cute girl I got to sit next to for two years. ARE YOU PROUD OF ME YET MR. FEDERICO?!
Good to see I’m not the only one going on memory here 😛
I’d rather be honest and wrong than suddenly gain an unprecedented intimacy with WW2 trivia that is uncannily similar to the wording on wikipedia. 😛
The theme song for Operation Barbarossa was Les preludes by Franz Liszt. This song was used in the Flash Gordon movies and is possibly the inspiration for its use in Operation Barbarossa.
Q4:
The German invasion song for Operation Barbarossa was “Les preludes” by Franz Liszt. Considering how the invasion ended up for the Nazis, I guess it was the “Prelude” to their defeat by the Soviets and eventually their overall loss of WW2.
Les preludes by Franz Liszt… Nazi propaganda was pretty effective, if I remember correctly.
Les preludes by Franz Liszt. But personally I think something like Rem’s It’s The End of the World would have been more appropriate.
The musical theme for Operation Barbarossa was Les Preludes by 19th century Hungarian composer, Franz Liszt
Les preludes, by Fanz Liszt. Was also featured in a large number of the Nazi propaganda news movies.
The song that was formed for Operation Barbarosa was Les Preludes and it was created by Franz Liszt and the song was created to increase moral of the soldiers when they were entering battle
Les preludes
The theme of the operation was Les Preludes
Les preludes by Franz Liszt
The theme song for Operation Barbarossa was Les Preludes by Fanz Liszt
Question 4: The Operation Barbarossa invasion theme song was Les préludes by Franz Liszt.
Les préludes reads in english as “The Prelude’, whereas in Russian it translates to “Oh christ the Germans are here!”.
Les preludes by Franz Liszt
red beard
The theme music for the invasion of the Soviet Union was “Les préludes” by Franz Liszt. He originally composed the symphonic poem in 1856, with the orchestral backing was made 11 years later in 1865.
Les Preludes by Frans Liszt ,April 1856.
The theme song for Operation Barbarossa was Les preludes by Franz Lizst.
Question:Every German invasion of a foreign country during World War II was given a musical theme, what was the theme song for Operation Barbarossa?
Answer: The song was Les préludes by Mr Franz Liszt (also known as a symphonic poem). I’ve heard it and to be honest, it’s pretty crap.:(
Red Beard is the latin translation of Barbarossa
Quid barossa
Question 5: Red beard
Barbarossa means redbeard in latin
Barbarossa’s literal meaning is ‘red beard’ in Latin.
Question 5 – It means Red Beard in latin
Barbarossa means ‘red beard’
Also a German King and Holy Roman Emperor.
Question 5.What does Barborossa mean in Latin>
I oddly got the answer from the One Piece wiki. Apparently it means Red Beard.
Red beard!
“Red Beard” coming from Barba meaning Beard, and Rossa meaning Red. German significance derives from the Frederick I, one of the more famous of the Holy Roman Emperors, who was known as Barbarossa.
Barbarossa is a medieval Latin term meaning “red beard”
I don’t know about Latin but it means red beard in Italian
Q5:
Barbarossa means Red Beard in latin / Italian. Another poor choice by the Germans. Soviets, communist, red? Not foreboding of anything. Not sure where the beard part comes in. Maybe they just liked the Roman Emperor who had that name.
Red hairy thing I’ll never grow on my hairless baby face
Barbarossa means red beard in Latin.
Barbarossa means Redbeard
Barbarossa means Redbeard from the nickname of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I.
Barbarossa in Latin means Geoffrey Rush made a mistake career wise. It had limited uses in Rome due to Geoffrey Rush not being alive and therefore there was a lack of applications for its use.
Q5 – “To squeeze hard on the testicles”
Q5: Barbarossa is a name, the invasion is named after Frederick Barbarossa and means red beard
haha “most frustrating thing to watch”
Change to most hilarious thing to watch
Q5: Nothing. It means Red Beard in Italian
Q5: Barbarossa means means redbeard in Latin, it was the nickname of Holy Roman emperor Fredrick the I, one of Germans forefathers.
Q5: Red Beard
Q5 Red beard. Otherwise it’s someone from the Barbary Coast, typically a pirate
Barbarosa meant red beard in latin and it was called this because of the pirate khair ad-din who was notorious for his attacks omn christian vessels
Red Beard.
Also the nickname of a pirate named Khair ad-Din.
Barbarossa = red beard in Italian and Latin. The Operation was named after Frederick Barbarossa, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
It is medieval latin for Red Beard
Question: What does ‘Barbarossa’ mean in Latin?
Answer: Meaning Red beard, is also a great beer website: http://www.redbeardbrewing.com Hmmm, beer.
Q4: Red Beard.
Bluebeard’s mortal enemy.
Barbarossa was originally a name meaning ‘red beard’ in Latin. It has been fitting used as a name for characters in the Frank Herbert ‘Dune’ series of novels and in the 1995 Playstation game ‘Suikoden’.
Barbarossa means red beard!
Question 5: Barbarossa translates to ‘Red Beard’ in latin.
Used in a sentence: “Did you see Mark’s beard the other day? Man has a mad Barbarossa going on mmmm mmm”
Barbarossa was Latin for Red Beard. Did they think they was gonna be pirates?
Red beard!
16 august 1812
Q 6. July 6 1941
Battle of Smolensk began on the 10th of July.
4 days and 43 years before my birthday!
July 6th 1941
Q6- July 10 1941, or July 6th, depending which part of the wikipedia you read
Question 5 (12:26-12:30): Thursday July 10 1941
Question 5(again lol) – the Battle for Smolensk started on July 6 1941
July 10!
Answer from Wikipedia. Wow, the Soviets took a right ol’ leathering in this battle!
The Battle of Smolensk, which is part of the larger Operation Barbarossa was started on July 10th, 1941.
The First Battle of Smolensk began July 10 1941
The second Battle of Smolensk began 7 August 1943
The Battle for Smolensk began on July 10, 1941, and lasted exactly 2 months till septemeber the 10th, and took place in the town of Smolensk.
For question 6: The Battle for Smolensk commenced on July 6 1941
The first battle for Smolensk the started August 16th 1812
The Battle of Smolensk began on the 10th July 1941 and lasted until September 10th, a full two months length.
July 10, 1941
The Battle for Smolensk began on July 10, 1941 and lasted 2 months, with another battle being in 1943
Question 6: First battle for Smolensk take place on the 10th July, 1941. Second Battle took take on the 7th August 1943.
Tricky question as there were 2 separate battles for Smolensk.
The first battle commenced on July 10 1941 and continued for 2 months – severly hampering the German drive on Moscow.
The second battle commenced on 7th August 1943 in which the Soviet forces caused several breakthroughs against the German defenders
July 10th 1941.
Question 6 (which is labelled 5?)
The Battle for Smolensk began on the 10th of July, 1941. For the Russians it was a most significant event indeed, but for Bison, it was Tuesday.
Q6: The FIRST battle of smolensk began on July 10 1941 during the Germans initial offensive. the second battle of smolensk began on the 7th of August 1943 during the beginning of the Soviet offensive.
Q5 (no2??): 3 July 1941
The first battle of Smolensk started on July 10 1941 and ran through to September 10. It was a major battle during Operation Barborossa!
On the 6th of July, 1941, the Soviets launched a counter offensive to try and stall the German advance, which was somewhat obliterated. This led to the Germans launching an offensive on the 10th of July, 1941, which started the Battle of Smolensk.
July 10 1941 and August 7 1943
I DON’T KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS
HAVE ANOTHER DATE! *throws date in your direction*
August 16 1812
Battle took place around Smolensk from July 10to Sept 10 1941.
10th of July, 1941.
This question just made me realise how old my dad is…
The Battle of Smolensk began July 10 1941
Sunday 6th July 1941 and the Saturday 7th August 1943
Q6) The Battle for Smolensk started on July 10, 1941. This was only 18 days after Operation Barbarossa had begun. This battle was a massive loss for the Soviets, however it was not without casualties on either side; between the start of the Battle for Smolensk and the middle of August, the Germans lost approximately 214 tanks.
Q6?: There were two Battles for Smolensk, the first occurred from July 6 to August 5 1941 as the first battle of Operation Barbarossa with second occurring from 7 August to 2 October 1943 (Soviet liberation).
There have been 3 Battles for Smolensk:
1) The battle which marked the start of Napolean’s invasion of Russia began on 16 Aug 1812 (though that’s probs not the one you were referring to…)
2) The start of operation Barbarossa July 10 1941
3) Soviet strategic offence beginning 7 Aug 1943
The Battle of Smolensk began July 6 1941
10th July the battle of Smolensk began and raged until the 10th of September. At Smolensk the German faced stiff defense from the Russian armies and had to fight a bitter battle to advance into the city. This gave time for the Russian to prepare for the on coming offensive they were facing on many fronts
smolensk began august 7 1943
Q6:
Battle of Smolensk began around July 10 to September 10, 1941. It was the first time that the Nazis were significantly delayed by the Soviets. They cut it close though. Smolensk is only 400km west of Moscow.
The Battle of Smolensk began on 10 July 1941. It spanned seven individual operations and went until 10 September 1941 (exactly 3 months!)
Germany
Romania
Italy
Hungary
Slovakia
Just 5 of the Countries involved in Barbarossa:
Germany
Romania
Hungary
Slovakia
Croatia
Russia, Germany, Romaina, Italy and Croatia were all involved in the Operation- mostly on the German side
Question: On what date did the Battle for Smolensk begin?
Answer: The battle began the 10th of July, when two Panzer groups, with support from ther Second Air Fleet, began a duel thrust across the Dnepr river. By the way, this is the date the Soviet’s know when the battle began.
Q7: Germany, Russia, Poland, Estonia, Ukraine
Soviet Union, Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Croation and Finland were involved in Operation Barbarossa. Also the Soviets were supported by the Lend-Lease agreement in which the US and UK sent supplies, materials and arms.
Question 7: Operation Barbaorssa saw involvement from Croatia, Romania, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia.
Oh and some other country that was a big deal in WW2, forget the name.
Nazi Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary, and the Soviet Union.
6. The first battle for smolensk began on 6th of July 1941 for the Russians, and 10th July 1941 for the Germans.
The 2nd Battle for Smolensk began August 7, 1943.
Q7: On the German side alone, their was Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain and Yugoslavia. All of them saw combat at Stalingrad, all of them suffered terribly there.
There*
Q7 Romania, Finland, Hungary, Italy, and Slovakia. The only involved Allied country was the USSR
Soviet Union, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia are 5 countries involved in Operation Barbarossa
Questoin 7: Germany, Soviet Union, Italy, Slovakia, Crotia
Finland, Soviet Union, Hungary Germany and Italy
Q7: Germany (well, duh!), Romania, Italy, Hungary, and Slovakia
Finland was part of it, but interestingly didn’t consider themselves as an ally of the Axis forces.
Q7: Aside from Germany and the Soviet Union, there was also Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia and Romania.
Any Germ
Ro-Mania!
Italiano
Hungry
Soviet Onion
Germany Romania, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and because I’m feeling generous also the Soviet Union. 6v1 looks like they needed CS’s Auto-team balance
Question 7: Actually six axis countries that contributed troops!!!! Germany, Slovakia, Italy, Hungry, Finland and Romania
Question 7 – Germany, Soviet Union, Italy, Romania and Hungary
Five countries that were involved in operation barbarossa are; Germany, Soviet Union, Romania, Croatia and Slovakia.
USSR, Germany, Italy, Finland, Norway.
Countries involved were Germany, Russia, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia.
Romania, Hungary, Finland, Italy and Slovakia……oh yeah, and Germany and the Soviet Union…
7: germany, USSR, britain, poland and france
Five countries involved in Operatn Barbarossa were: Germany, Romania, Finland, Hugary, and Italy
Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, The Soviet Union and Finland if you count attempting to repel the soviet’s from their own borders
Question 7 (12:31-12:35): Name five countries involved in Operation Barbarossa
Germany, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Romania and Slovak were all involved in operation Barbarossa.
Boy did that backfire on the Germans!
Q7: Operation Barbarossa involved the participation of Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia and Finland in an attempted invasion of the Soviet Union
Q7) Five countries involved in Operation Barbarossa were Croatia, Slovakia, Finland, Hungary and Italy. The Finnish have a peculiar manner of cursing, which involves telling people they don’t get along with to ‘go ski into a (insert hard/rude/pointy/fiery object here)’; an idiom which I am sure got used a lot during Operation Barbarossa.
Q7:
Lets see if I can name some more obscure ones.
Croatia, Slovakia, and Hungary fought during the Operation Barbarossa.
As did Italy and Romania. I guess that was before they changed sides. Italy. One of the few countries on the winning side of WW2 at the beginning and the end.
5 countries involved in Operation Barbarossa were:
Romania
Italy
Hungary
Slovakia
Croatia
There were 6 countries directly involved in Operation Barbarossa, 5 of which include Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy, Romania, Hungary and Croatia
Germany and Russia obviously, it started with an attack in the soviet held areas of Poland so they’re involved, the axis had Italian troops and the Finns could never say no to giving Russia a good kicking (it was the only reason they allied with the Germans after all)
Apart from German the following countries were involved in the conflict with the Soviet Union campaign Romania, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia. These countries had either joined the Nazi’s or hoped that by helping they would not suffer the same fate the USSR was suffering.
The Axis suffered approximately 800,000 losses during Barbarossa.
Question 8 – Over 800,000 (over 9000!!!!!!!!)
Q8: 5.2 million
Question 8: 800,000 Axis Casualties
The Axis armies suffered approximately 815,000 casualties during Operation Barbarossa (1941)
167,000 Germans were KIA during Operation Barbarossa. A further 600,000 were wounded. 34500 were missing in action. All up 830,000 Germans lost in the Eastern Front during Barbarossa.
The battle of Smolensk was the first major battle in operation Barbarosa and it started on the 10th of July 1941 and ended on the 10th of septempber 1941
Roughly 800,000.
Around 800,000 casualties. A minuscule 1/8 of what the Soviet Union suffered.
900,000
Question 8 (12:36-12:40): To the nearest hundred thousand, how many Casualties did the Axis armies suffer in Operation Barbarossa?
Approximately 800,000
802000 deaths recorded 831000 missing in action and wounded in action. The outcome was that it totally screwed the German war machine
Question 8: 1, 800, 000 either missing, wounded or killed.
Roughly 800.
Around 800,000 casualties were suffered by the Axis
800k Axis Casualties but this does not take into account the germans who were captured and were never seen again.
Q8:
The Germans suffered over 800 000 casualties as a result of Operation Barbarossa. Just over 167 000 killed. Some heavy losses on all sides though.
802,000 were killed wounded or lost in action.
germany, USSR, britain, poland and france were 5 countries involved in operation Barbarosa
Axis casualties during Operation Barbarossa:
1941: 800,000
1942: 1,100,000
1943 : 1,600,000
1944 : 2,000,000
8: approximately 900,000 casualties
Q8: Around 800,000 Axis deaths were recorded from Operation Barbarossa
210,000 casualties in Operation Barbarossa. Technically more, but rounding it down seems nicer.
800 000 Axis casualties during Operation Barbarossa…
To the nearest hundred thousand, there was 800,000 casualties to the Axis in Operaton Barbarossa.
I’d also like to point out i’m not copy and pasting all of this detail.
The first Battle for Smolensk was during 1812 when the French invaded Russia on August 16, the second occurred during 1941, July 10 when the Germans commenced their offensive as part of Operation Barbarossa and the third was in 1943, August 7 when Russia fought to recapture the region.
Q8: 4,000,000
Q8) The axis army suffered around 800,000 casualties during the operation, including soldiers killed, wounded and MIA. Interestingly, 75% of these were injuries.
Q1: Operation Barbarossa started on a Sunday, 22 June in 1941. The operation commenced at 3:15am with a massive artillery bombardment on major Soviet positions followed by their ‘Blitzkrieg’.
*Edit*
The Axis army suffered around 800000 casualties during Operation Barbarossa.
Question 7)
On the Axis the major powers that invaded are German, Italy, Romania and Hungry with support from Finland and Slovakia
For the Allies The major power was the Soviet Union, with Supply support from the USA and England via the Lend-Lease program
Axis armies suffered 800,000 casualies during Operation Barbarosa
700,000
Operation typhoon began on the 2nd of october 1941.
Operation Typhoon was launched in 1941, on the 2nd October.
Q8 Approx 800 thousand deaths
October 2nd, 1941
800,000 casualties
Operation Typhoon commenced on the 2nd October 1941. The Germans were pushed back eventually but could see the Kremlin from their positions at once point. The battle concluded on the 7th Jan 1942
800,000 Axis casualties during the offensive.
Operation Typhoon began on 30 September 1941
Question 9: 2nd October 1941
Q9: Operation Typhoon began on 2nd October 1941
Question 9 – It started on the 2nd of October 1942
Question 9: First offensive on 30th September 1941 and Second offensive on 2nd October 1941
Question: Name five countries involved in Operation Barbarossa
Answer: It was 6! Germany, Croatia (i know this cause both my grandfathers were pilots in that campaign), Finland, Italy, Romania, Hungary.
Oct 2, 1941
Question 9: Operation Typhoon begin on the 2nd October 1941
Q9: Operation Typhoon commenced on 2 October, 1941
Operation Typhoon began on the 2nd of October, 1941.
Operation Typhoon started on 30 September 1941 with the attack of the troops from the 2nd Armoured Group on positions of the Bryansk Front. The offensive only began on 2nd October 1941 however.
Operation Typhoon began the second of October 1941, but I imagine planning occurred for years before.
Operation Typhoon began on the 2nd of October, 1941.
Q9 30 Sept 1941
Q9:
Operation Typhoon began in World War 2. Too vague? Okay. It was towards the end part of World War 2.
Opeartion Typhoon began on the 2nd of October 1941.
Roughly 600,000 I think. Or was that just the Germans?
Typhoon began October 2 1941
2nd October 1941
Operation Typhoon aka the Battle of Moscow began 2 October, 1941.
Mirroring the failure of Napoleon to ultimately defeat the Russians and be stuck in a foreign land in harsh conditions and barely any supplies.
Question 9) October 2, 1941
Q9) Operation Typhoon, an operation conducted as part of the Battle for Moscow, began on October 2nd, 1941; the same day that German troops would end the Warsaw uprising in 1944.
Operation Typhoon commenced on 2nd of October 1941.
Q9: 2nd October 1941 – now this is international non-violence day
3,800,000 casualties were suffered by the axis in operation barbarosa
Operation Typhoon, a direct offensive by the German Army on Moscow, began on 30 September 1941.
Q9: The German Typhoon started on the 30th of September 1941
Operation Typhoon began 2 Octobr 1941
Five countries involved in Operation Barbarossa on the Axis side were Germany, Romania, Italy, Hungary and Croatia.
Operation Typhoon started on October 2nd 1941, eventually resulting in the failure of Operation Barbarossa.
A long time ago.
Germany moved onto Moscow on October 2nd 1941.
The exact start date for Operation Typhoon is debated, but it is believed to have started between the 30th of September to the Second of October. It is more believed to have started on the 30th of September.
I’m a little teapot 2nd october 1941 to 7th january 1942
Operation Typhhon aka the Battle of Moscow began 2 October 2941.
Operation Typhoon began on 2nd October 1941 and continued for 10 days.
Question: To the nearest hundred thousand, how many Casualties did the Axis armies suffer in Operation Barbarossa?
Answer: 775,000!
The battle proper began on 2nd October 1941 – however initial maneuvers for Operation Typhoon began on the 30th September 1941.
The Axis suffered over 800,000 casualties in the battle.
Operation Typhoon was a german strategic offensive in Moscow which started on 2nd of October 1941 and it concluded 7th of January 1942
Q9: October 2 1941
Q10: Jeremy Renner and Matt Damon, the battle of the Bournes
Q10: The russian sniper was named Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev and his opponent, a german named Erwin König.
Erwin König and Vasily Zaitsev
Vasily Zaytsev and Erwin Konig – the story was used for the movie ‘Enemy at the Gates’ …very loosely.
Vasily Zaytsev and Major König participated in the 3 day sniper battle
Comon I already answered this! It was Vasily Zaystev (Jude Law) and Wehrmacht sniper school director. “Major Erwin Konig” aka Ed Harris not that he existed or anything in Herr records. Otherwise one of his first duels where he lost his spotter was against a regular soldier
Question 10 – Was reportedly between Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev and Erwin König
Q10) Vasily Zaytsev and Major Konings. Although Solid Snake and Sniper Wolf would’ve been more interesting…
Question 10: Axis: Major Erwin Koning vs USSR: Vassili Zaitsev with Zaitsev winning the battle
Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev VS Regular German Soldier
q10 vasily zaytsev and erwin konig although no evidence exists that erwin konig ever existed
Major Erwin Koning and Vasily Zaytsev. Koning was specifically despatched to the battlefield to kill Zaytsev – apparently there is some debate as to whether Koning actually existed – either way Zaytsev was accompanied into the field by another Soviet sniper, Nikolai Kulikov.
Major Konings and Vasily Zaitsev
Operation Typhoon began on October 2, 1941. Probably sometime in the morning. Maybe 6:00AM? Probably a bit later, there were tons of logistics involved. I’d say 8:00AM.
The two snipers were Vassili Zaitsev (Soviet) and Major Erwin Koning (German). The movie ‘Enemy at the Gates helped with this 😉
Vasily Zaytsev “fought” Erwin Konig at the battle of Stalingrad, but the tale is likely exaggerated or part Russian Propaganda.
No. I absolutely cannot. But if Call of duty: World at War is historically accurate, which we all know it is, one of the snipers was Dimitri Petrenko. 😛
The Germans sent in Major Erwin Koning to fight, and him and the Soviet sniper Vassili Zaitsev had a 3 day long sniper battle, which eventually ended up in Zaitsev’s victory!
Q10: The sniper duel was fought by Vasily Zaytsev and Erwin Konig
Q10) The two snipers involved at the famous three day battle were Vassili Zaitsev (Russian) and Erwin Koning (German). Zaitsev eventually won the battle, killing the head of Berlins sniper school.
The Sniper battle took place between Vassili Zaitsev and Major Erwin König.
Vasily Zaytsev, and an unnamed regular German soldier. In the movie Enemy at the Gates, this unnamed soldier was named Erwin Koenig and he was a major.
There was apparently a 3 day battle between Major Erwin König and Vasily Zaytsev (as popularised in Enemy at the gates) Zaytsev claimed this did indeed occur but no history of a Major Erwin König (thought to have taught at a german sniper school) exists.
Whilst Zaytsev was a great sniper he paled into comparison when compared to Finnish Sniper Simo Häyhä… who was nicknamed Belaya Smert (White Death) by the Soviet forces, Check him out!
10: Vasily Zaytsev and Erwin König or Heinz Thorvald, but Zaytsev’s dairy is the only source of information about this supposed sniper duel.
Q10:
The two famous snipers from the Battle of Stalingrad were Jude Law and Ed Harris. No wait. Rachel Weisz wasn’t in WW2.
I guess it must have been Vasily Zaytsev and Major Erwin König.
Vasily Zaytsev had a 3 day sniper battle with Major Erwin Koning with victory to Vasily.
Q10: Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev vs. Erwin König
The duel was between the Russian Vasily Zaytsev and the German as far as I’m aware was Erwin König, the shoot out started after Erwin killed Vasily’s comrade.
Q10: Vasilly Zytsev was the famous Soviet sniper He fought for three days with a German sniper he believed was sent to hunt him. It turned out he was just just some unknown German rifleman.
Question: When did Operation Typhoon begin?
Answer: It began at 12.00pm 2nd of October 1941 and on this battle, German forces began what lead to one of the reasons of their defeat: they employed a scorched earth policy, meaning no possible chance of quick resupply from the rear. Hitler was actually told not to launch this operation at the start of the Russian winter, but he ignored such advice. Also, the Russians, having taken a leaf from Napoleon, fled before the attack and destroyed everything they could before the germans could get their hands on it. Talk about a duel destruction policy.
On the 22nd of September, 1942, Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev was in a building with another soldier, when he was shot by a German Sniper from another building. This began a sniper battle that lasted three days (Through my birthday on the next day, by the way). The battle ended after three days, and upon inspecting his german victim, he found to his surprise it was just a regular, low ranking soldier.
Erwin König is believed to be the Axis sniper, as he was mentioned in Zaytsev’s memoirs.
That took a lot to write out, i hope you appreciate it!
Question 9) Operation Typhoon began initial attacks on the Moscow on the 30th of September, but officially began on the 2nd of October. Once the battle of Kiev was completed and Gen. Guderian’s 2nd Panzer Army was returned to the command of Army Group Centre, after being turned south to aid Army Group South in encirclement of Kiev
12,775 Hero of the soviet union awards have been awarded
12,775 “Hero of the Soviet Union” accolades were given, but they’re now of course defunct.
Perestroika be damned!
12775 ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ awards were handed out!
12,775 were awarded the hero of the Soviet Union medal.
12,755 people have received the Hero of the Soviet Union medal, however 20 of these have had it stripped from them.
Question 11: 12,775 Heroes of the soviet union awarded between 1934 and 1991
Vasily Zaytsev (the man with the really nice hat) and Erwin König (the man with the slightly less-nice hat) fought for three days in a sniping battle during the invasion of Stalingrad.
Operation Typhoon commenced on October 2nd, 1941 also known as the Battle for Moscow
Square root of 163200625
Sniper from opposing armies, Major Konings and Vasily Zaitsev were locked into a battle for three day to see who outdo the other in a deadly game of cat and mouse. In the end Vasily was victorious and was surpised tp find out the Konings was a regular soldier and not a high ranking officer.
Q11: 12, 755 people
Question 11 – Hero of the Soviet Union has been awarded 12,775 times
Apparently it has been awarded 12,775 times! Thats like an Army of Heroes!
12,755 people have been awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal however 20 have been stripped of the honour.
12, 775 people have been awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest possible distinction, with the last person to be awarded one in 1991.
Q11: 12,775 bad bad men
Question 11 – 12,755 have received the medal. Most were awarded during WW2, meaning Stalin took them right back off them as soon as he decided he didn’t like them any more…
Q11: 12755, 11365 during ww2 with 101 awarded twice, 3 awarded 3 times and 2 have been awarded it 4 times
The sniper battle lasted 3 days after Vasily Zaytsev’s comrade (vasili zaitsev) was killed by a german sniper. this then prolonged over 3 days and Vasily Zaytev won the fight only to discover the soldier he killed was a regular infantry soldier
12: nope I cannot do that. you do it…go on…you know you want to
12’755 people have received a Hero of the Soviet Union. Marshal Zhukov, one of the Soviet Union’s field generals during WWII is one of only two people to have been awarded it twice.
12,755 people have received the award ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’.
Every time I do a serious answer I get 503’d~
http://i.imgur.com/KBlEbNX.png
Anyway, good luck to everyone with good internet!
Overall since the award was created there were 12,755 Hero of the Soviet Union recipients. During WW2 11,741 were awarded (11,635 once, 101 awarded twice, 3 awarded three times and 2 awarded four times to the same person. )
Q11: Approximately 12,775 men and women have received this prestigious award.
Q11: 11741 people received the “Hero of the Soviet Union” award during WWII
10: Jude Law and Ed Harris.
Total awards were 12,775 20 have been taken away, during WW2 was 11.635.
Q11:
The answer to the world, the universe, to everything. 42 Russian and 42 non-Russian. So 84 I guess. I assume I counted right. A few got more than one.
12755 with 11635 in WW2. A number of fighter jocks were awarded three times (woo flying). Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev won it four times
Question 11: 95 people received the ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ award, including some foreign recipients.
Q12: Leonid Brezhnev and Georgy Zhukov
Question 9. I believe the initial advance was in the September 1941, but who can accurately give the date when the initial plans began. The Battle its self began in October 1941
Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev both received the award four time for there service to the state of the Soviet Union.
q10: 12775 Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Q11: There were 12 775 Heroes of the Soviet Union.
Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev
Q11) The ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’, the highest medal attainable in the Soviet Union, was awarded to 12,755 people, although 20 of these have since had their medals removed. Only two people have ever been awarded the medal four times, these people being Georgy Zhukov, a military commander and politician and Leonid Brezhnev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
I’ll go ahead and admit I googled this one before answering because my estimate of 1,300 was way off by a factor of ten.
12,775 people have been awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. I was surprised to learn it’s not just a battle commendation, and has been awarded to a number of “first” cosmonauts, such as the first physician in space, and first German cosmonaut.
Marshal Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev both received the medal four times, but I’m not aware of a third recipient.
Q11:12,755 people have been awarded the ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ award.
Fun fact!: On May 5, 1934, the award was first established by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. And the first recipients of the title originally received only the Order of Lenin, the highest Soviet award, along with certificate describing the heroic deed from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
Question: During the battle of Stalingrad there was a reported three day sniper battle between two accomplished marksmen — can you name the two snipers who were reportedly involved?
Answer: Vasily Zaytsev and Erwin Konig, the subject material for the crappy 2001 film, Enemy at the Gates.
There are TWO four time award recipients, not THREE. These two are:
Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev.
Q12: Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Leonid Brezhnev and Mark Serrels
25 men were honoured with the medal “For the Defence of Stalingrad” or ‘Hero of Stalingrad’ award, including the previously mentioned sniper.
Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev are the only TWO people to have been awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award 4 times.
Q12) No, because there have only been 2 quadruple recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union Medal; Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev
Georgy Zhukov: The greatest soviet general in history
and
Leonid Brezhnev: General… Secretary of the Communist party
Final Question: Georgy Zhukov, Leonid Brezhnev there are only 2 4 time heroes
12,755 people recieved the title and award of ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’. 20 people were stripped of this title and 101 people recieved this title twice
Only 2 people were awarded Hero of the Soviet Union 4 times – Georgy Zhukov, a brilliant general and Leonid Brezhnev who would become the chairman of the USSR eventually
No. The Hero of the Soviet Union has only been awarded four times to two people these are Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev
12: Zhukov, Chernov and Krushcev
Q12: No, because Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev are the only 4 time winners.
Question 12: Only 2 four time winners, Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev
Question 12 – Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev are the only two people to have received four
Q12:
Wikipedia only names two people getting the award four times. And I’ll be damned if I have to work any harder than a basic Wiki search for my answer.
Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev.
I just answered Question 12 with Question 11. I gave you all the answers.
Marshal Georgy Zhukov dude who kicked German butt and Lenoid Brezhnev who was General Secretary (head honcho)
There were only two people who received the medal four times, Marshal Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev. Even these were given out under strange circumstances as normally people could only receive 2 or 3 at the most!
Mark Serrels…actually, I think he’s received it 5 times.
759,560 people were honoured with the medal “For the Defence of Stalingrad” or ‘Hero of Stalingrad’ award, including the previously mentioned sniper.
Leonid Brezhnev and Georgy Zhukov are the only two to receive the award four times. However, if Mark keeps playing the way he is on COH 2 he may be awarded it four times.
Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev are the only people to be awarded the Hero of the soviet Union four times,
Q12: 1) Georgy Zhukov
2) Leonid Brezhnev
Only two people have received the award 4 times.
Only two people won it four times, as far as I know – Leonid Brezhnev and Georgy Zhukov. Marty McFly could well be the third I guess…
Question 10) This can not be sited as a real event, as the only source was Soviet sniper Vassili Zaitsev
Q12) Haha apparently I am psychic; see my answer the question 11, as only two people have been awarded the medal four times.
Only 2 people have received the Hero of the Soviet Union 4 times, they are:
Georgy Zhukov
Leonid Brezhnev
There were only two people who have been awarded the ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ award, not the asked three. These two people were Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev.
Question 10 – Wasn’t it Jude Law and Ed Harris?? I saw that movie!
Vasily Zaytsev was from the USSR
German .. no one of note
Leonid Brezhnev
And Georgy Zhukov got them.
Four times awarded.
Zhukov, chernov and Krushcev are the Crazy bastards won the Hero of the soviet union,
Good luck everyone!
Some Russian guys got those awards, it was a good day I heard.
Q12: Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Leonid Brezhnev and Chuck Norris (even his enemies respect the man).
Only two people who have received the “Hero of the Soviet Union” award four times are as follows:
1. Georgy Zhukov
2. Leonid Brezhnev.
That went fast got in some live stream at least most was spent on Q&A was a fun comp.
Question: Can you name the three people who have received this award four time?
Answer: Leonid Brezhnev (later to become the bastard cold war leader of the soviet union till his glorious death in 1982) and Georgy Zhukov (just a bloke with a smart military mind)
Ninety five people have received the ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ award in addition to Russians citizens this also includes a number of foreign recipients.
Georgy zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev were the only two that recieved the award ‘hero of soviet union’ four times over. Zhukov was a military commader and politician and was credited with many significant victories during the war. Leonid Brezhnev was a First Secretary, later General Secretary, of the “Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet “. He was also awarded one Hero of Socialist Labour.
I like video games.
I hate them. I hate fun.
I hate war, killing is wrong.
I love video games, killing is fun.
grinchius
Question 11 – Very rare award … only 11,633 people …. Can I get one?
At least thats what I have been told by the book I’ve got
Q12: There were only two people who were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award four times: Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev.
There were three people who received the award three times, however: Ivan Kozhedub, Alexander Pokryshkin and Semyon Budyonny.
Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev both won the Hero of the Soviet Union award.
Since there were only two people to receive this award four times, here are the lyrics for the song by Dillinger Escape Plan 🙂
I took my lover to the sea
drowned him precious bride to be
bleeding heaven from the start
woe is rapture ripped apart
hey you’re honest, aren’t you?
Show me rapture torn apart
everybody’s riddled with disease
but I bet you say, “not me”
so honest, aren’t you?
You’re so honest, aren’t you so?
my, aren’t you
surely the finest of the brigade?
my, aren’t you
always right a portrait of dignity?
my, aren’t you
innocent and never suspectable
my, aren’t you
wait
you smell like shit, not the truth
full of device, not devotion
conscience came right up to you
and then you threw it back
you are the scum of the earth
you are the scum of the ocean
to you it’s above as below
you smear your filth across the world
you smear your filth across the world
you smear your filth across the world
you smear your filth across the world
I put so much effort into this, and i didn’t even copy and paste.
Although i’ll admit, google helped with a few of them.
Q12: Q12: There were only two Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev. Brezhnev has a whole Wiki dedicated to jokes about him, they aren’t funny though.
Q12. Thought there was only two ?
Georgy Zhukov and Leonid Brezhnev, unsurprising Army Men! No one likes the air!
Wow. I got a few of these so very, very wrong. I’ll just blame it on being in a rush.
Oh well. Good luck to everybody. I loved playing CoH. Go Brits!
winners announced?
not yet.
not yet. I’m hoping I’m one, its a great prize.
what a suck I sound like.
It’s turning into a big “little after”, I just wanna know so I can know if I should buy it
when will the winners be announced? will it be on kotaku.com or over email?
Congrats to the winners 🙂
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, thank you guys.
@loquay @juststu82 @piat @gda1211 @Eltono
Winners announced. Congrats to everyone who picked up a copy and thank you to everyone to joined in the fun.
Thanks for throwing in copies for @f4ction and me. I wasn’t serious when I suggested it but it’s appreciated.
What he said! Many many thanks!
@dannyallen – Thanks, am very stoked. Huge fan of the franchise. Do we need to do anything?
@dannyallen – sorry but haven’t won something like this on here before. Do we need to do anything or will you contact us?
Wow. I won that’s awesome. Big thanks to kotaku.au and the great guys at Five star games.
Wow I won. Thanks Kotaku AU!
@trjn I actually missed you joke about it…. appreciate the halp!
Congrats winnars!
I had to leave after question 3, I was so ready to give my answers, life happens. 🙁
Had the Red Army Edition pre-ordered from EB Games anyways, I just wanted to see if I would of won before cancelling it, good call I didn’t! 😀
I’ll see you guys in multiplayer (after I complete the campaign and get good at the game) Well Done Winners!
@loquay @piat @gda1211 @eltono – have you guys been contacted about winning?
I didn’t win 🙁 winners were announced in a different post
Sorry
@raestoz @Canada @ynefel @dalburgers @Tacs @jumbino @esaj @juniglee @derrick @nomad @loquay – Have you guys been contacted about winning ie for address etc? I haven’t and previously won movie tickets which didn’t come so being such a big prize I’m concerned I have missed getting it again.
I got an email from Danny Allen about the same time they were posted on the site. I’d check the email associated with your account, check the junk folder and if you can’t find it contact Danny.
Yeah I got an email from Danny that afternoon. Check your Gravatar email address.
I got the email from Danny same day and replied immediately. The prize hasn’t arrived yet, i’ve emailed Danny this weekend to confirm when it will be dispatched.
I’m in the same boat, wondering the same thing. Did you get any luck?
I contacted Danny and he sent it to me.