What are the top badass countries of WW2?

[sepoquro]

Badass as in bravery

My list:
1. Germany
2. Soviet Union
3. Finland
4. Greece
5. Japan

What do you think?

 

[OBRkenobi]

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Empire of Japan
Finland
Switzerland

 

[Cuthuthulu]

Finland

 

[Axe99]

Albania and Greece .

 

[Tuscan]

I have to go with Finland too; A small relatively insignificant country that somehow managed to repel invasions by a major power, and punch well above its weight. Kinda like the Vietnam of Europe!

 

[Kaido (Manstein)]

The United States.

I have to go with Finland too; A small relatively insignificant country that somehow managed to repel invasions by a major power, and punch well above its weight. Kinda like the Vietnam of Europe!

Except the US didn't invade Vietnam. They were just defending the South from the North's invasion.

 

[shri]

Man for Man, the Finns were certainly the people who made the BEST use of their limited manpower and limited resources. Using mostly obsolete and outdated equipment (and in short numbers) they ended up using "Terrain Modifiers" and "Climatic Conditions" to their advantage to give the Big Bad Bear a Bloody Nose.

In sheer "morale and individual initiative/courage" terms the Japanese do outrank everyone, though their charges many times were futile. Still, for someone to adopt "Kamikaze" as a weapon and then have an abundance of volunteers (yes, all Kamikaze were volunteers) speaks volumes of their psyche.

 

[Adonnus]

Finland and Poland. Poland never gave up, most Poles never even thought of surrendering. Their military plan was bad in 1939 but their spirit was always admirable.

 

[Grallak]

Sweden obviously. Best profitering ever.

 

[Dojo704]

Philippines xD? get rid of your puppet state status and then puppet the US

 

[DiegoVaz]

yermany
yapan
ausies

 

[scroggin]

Finland with an honourable mention for yugoslavia poland and norway for their resistance. Germany was just plain bad so was Russia.

 

[OBRkenobi]

Man for Man, the Finns were certainly the people who made the BEST use of their limited manpower and limited resources. Using mostly obsolete and outdated equipment (and in short numbers) they ended up using "Terrain Modifiers" and "Climatic Conditions" to their advantage to give the Big Bad Bear a Bloody Nose.

In sheer "morale and individual initiative/courage" terms the Japanese do outrank everyone, though their charges many times were futile. Still, for someone to adopt "Kamikaze" as a weapon and then have an abundance of volunteers (yes, all Kamikaze were volunteers) speaks volumes of their psyche.

Love this guy.

 

[Goodis]

Poland, poor people ravaged by two beasts... They tried hard, but no one honored their pacts and deals(*cough* France) left on their own.

And how could anyone forget Finland, every one was probably Rambo. What happened there was 100% badassery

 

[Ottovski]

Finland

I have to go with Finland too; A small relatively insignificant country that somehow managed to repel invasions by a major power, and punch well above its weight. Kinda like the Vietnam of Europe!

Man for Man, the Finns were certainly the people who made the BEST use of their limited manpower and limited resources. Using mostly obsolete and outdated equipment (and in short numbers) they ended up using "Terrain Modifiers" and "Climatic Conditions" to their advantage to give the Big Bad Bear a Bloody Nose.

In sheer "morale and individual initiative/courage" terms the Japanese do outrank everyone, though their charges many times were futile. Still, for someone to adopt "Kamikaze" as a weapon and then have an abundance of volunteers (yes, all Kamikaze were volunteers) speaks volumes of their psyche.

Finland and Poland. Poland never gave up, most Poles never even thought of surrendering. Their military plan was bad in 1939 but their spirit was always admirable.

Finland with an honourable mention for yugoslavia poland and norway for their resistance. Germany was just plain bad so was Russia.

Äs ä pätriötic Finn, I äppröve these pösts.

 

[Adonnus]

Äs ä pätriötic Finn, I äppröve these pösts.

 

[Jongmaster]

US and USSR, can't be the world's dominating superpowers without being more badass than everyone else

 

[HenkieDePost]

Luxemburg and Ulm. (De jure under Germany but de facto the same unstoppable Republic as ever).

 

[SahintheFalcon]

My list:
1. Germany
2. Soviet Union
3. Finland
4. Greece
5. Japan

What do you think?

Wow. 1/5 at best.

1. Germany, the most powerful country in Europe, completely wasted its tactical acumen through poor strategy and even worse industrial mobilization.
2. The Soviet Union, the second most populous country in the world and owner of by far the largest pre-war arsenal. Played the opposite game as the Germans: fighting well on a strategic and industrial level, but costing millions of lives due to poor tactical command.
3. I'll give you this one. No one could have done Marshal Mannerheim did for his country.
4. I suppose if you consider holding out against the Italians a badass feat, then you might as well put France on this list too. They did even better.
5. Yeah, the country that thought it could win a land war against China and a naval war against the United States. Quite possibly the worst leadership of any country in the war; worse than the Soviet Union by far.


Most badass country HAS to be the United Kingdom. There was no finer hour, perhaps in all of history. The British could easily have kept their empire in a negotiated peace with the Germans, but chose to sacrifice their future for the sake of mankind. They did a thankless job (as this thread clearly attests to), but in my mind, they were the greatest heroes.


Please, get your heads out of the "heroics" of Michael Wittmann, K/D ratios, Enemy at the Gates penal battalions, and kamikazes. Thank God we won the war.

 

[Thrake]

2. The Soviet Union, the second most populous country in the world and owner of by far the largest pre-war arsenal. Played the opposite game as the Germans: fighting well on a strategic and industrial level, but costing millions of lives due to poor tactical command.

... Well, they had suffered heavily from internal infighting and they were lacking leadership at the start of the war.