• cooljacob204
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    02 years ago

    Lol no it wasn’t clear. And you’re forgetting about the entire Pacific.

    Russians trying to rewrite history, forgetting who supplied half their army while also joining a war against their enemy on another front (at great cost to western lives), overall saving lives as the Germans had to divert resources and ending the war in Europe sooner.

    • davel [he/him]
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      02 years ago

      Neither of you are wrong, but Americans should understand that the USSR suffered over twenty million deaths vs ~117,000 Americans on the Western Front. They had their own western cities & infrastructure invaded/destroyed. The undertaking & sacrifices are hard to compare.

      Russians trying to rewrite history

      Okay my bad: you actually are wrong.

      • cooljacob204
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        12 years ago

        It’s been a very common thing recently with Russian to claim the West basically did nothing in WW2.

        They are quite literally rewriting history in their classrooms.

        Now I won’t deny they took the brunt of the force and paid an absolutely huge price in lives.

        But op is trying to use WW2 as a way to say the US is bad. That we did nothing and only joined when it was basically over. It’s a super common Russian nationalist talking point right now.

    • @zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
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      -12 years ago

      Operation Barbarossa had stalled by the time the US entered the war. German logistics were overextended, they were out of oil, and they were against a larger, rapidly industrializing power defending their homeland.

      By the time D-Day rolled around, Army Group North and Army Group South were taking loss after loss and the USSR had reclaimed a significant chunk of the land lost during Barbarossa. The Germans were in collapse. Roosevelt had promised a second front in 1942 but couldn’t deliver until 1944 (when it was clear that the Soviets had a clear shot at Berlin and had the momentum to keep going).

      The Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive put Army Group Center in an increasingly precarious position even as Russia continually gained ground in Byelorussia.