@historywithcarter: How do the Germans keep defeating these guys while they smoke us? Maybe Austria-Hungary was the real sick man of Europe, because they genuinely might have had the worst performance of any army in World War One. Because Austria-Hungary didn’t just lose to Russia. It made Russia look good. The Habsburg army charged into Galicia expecting a glorious victory, got hammered, lost Lemberg, and came stumbling back with the Russians right behind them. And remember, this was an army that was supposed to be one of Europe’s great powers. The Russians weren’t exactly some perfectly oiled machine either. They had outdated equipment, supply problems, and generals who could turn a bad plan into a national disaster. But when the Russians faced Austria-Hungary, suddenly they looked like the terrifying superpower in the room. Then Germany showed up. The Germans smashed Russian forces at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes, then helped launch the 1915 offensive that drove the Russians out of Galicia. Austria-Hungary kept getting pushed toward disaster, and Germany kept having to send troops to stop the whole front from folding. By 1916, the German complaint about their ally was brutal: they were “shackled to a corpse.” And the empire wasn’t even fighting one war. It was trying to fight Russia, Serbia, and eventually Italy, while its leaders made wildly overconfident plans and its armies struggled to recover from the losses. It had brave soldiers. It had some genuinely capable commanders. But every time the Habsburg high command promised a quick victory, the bill came due in bodies, prisoners, and another desperate call to Berlin. So yes, the Russian army had real weaknesses. But Austria-Hungary somehow managed to make those weaknesses look like strengths. Germany kept turning Russian offensives into retreats. Austria-Hungary kept turning its own offensives into emergencies. And the rest…is history. #wwi #austriahungary #historytok

Edi❤️🖤 :

and italy still somehow lost to them in 1917

poopyhead853 :

Russias were widely equipped with probably the newest and best performing bolt guns of the war aside from the United Kingdom. The M91 Mosin was quite a well designed and simple

Ondra Hradil :

And they still defeated italy , romania and serbia

Åm1r🌙 :

Ottomans sent battalions and performed more better in Galicia than Austria-Hungary btw😭✌️

wss_1485 :

Every officer knew either German or Hungarian and every subordinate memorised 10 basic commands in either language

zauhx :

Austria hungary actually start off great in ww1 in east but it was stopped in galicia, not to ruin the joke

MareleMirius☦︎☭⃠ :

Evan Anderson :

how it feels playing battlefield 1 with 3 people from different continents

kerim.t1907! :

only ones Holding the lines even after they left :OTTOMAN division from kars

user620704556 :

but machine guns were really good bruh its the same as if saying americans still use the same mg84 in choppers but its simply really the best there is but reagrdless austria hungary had horrible generals and citizens with double loyalty

_slovakia_slavic_ :

Austria-Hungary :

hey, its not true!

几卂丁卄卂几 :

Byron_Love27 :

Shadow Freaking Van Helsing :

I would just have ditched the Empire, it was a lost cause at that point

brnded :

also German armies less than Astro Hungarian

Derek Warsclo :

может быть он имел в виду пушки, потому что в армии российской имерии как почти 20 лет произаодили 3-х линейку

Rio :

real

Moravian-Silesian region dude :

Ginger :

personally i dont find anything great about that war

grimalkin_infurno🇸🇪 ☭⃠ :

austro-hungarian troops when the severely malnourished russians managed to break through their lines made up of multiple different language, most not understanding eachother in the slightest

scar :

meanwhile the rest of the world watching ts go down [Wilted rose]

Fittspin :

And then the Germans come with a comeback

Ural Automat Zavod :

WARNING JOKE, JOKE INBOUND. BE NOT AFRAID, A JOKE IS ABOUT TO BE COMMENTED not one order is understood on wither side too, illiterate among the Russians and language barriers for the austro-hungarians