Russia Now: Remembering Russia's sacrifice in World War Two

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/russianow/6281732/Russia-Now-Remembering-Russias-sacrifice-in-World-War-Two.html ^

[dfwgator]

One of the quotes from The World at War I’ll always remember was taken from the diary of a German Officer during the early days of “Operation Barbarossa” when the Germans were rapidly advancing.

“This fight is like an elephant fighting a colony of ants. The elephant may kill millions, but ultimately the ants will overwhelm the elephant and eat him right down to the bone.”

[kronos77]

True.
But just because it was battle to life or death.

There was not much sacreficing of soldiers as much as self-sareficing of russians to defeat and hold germans.

[AzSteven]

ooo - doubletap!

[Levante]

“And the Generals’ reward after the war was demotion, in the case of Zhukov.”

Well, at least he wasn’t summoned to the Kremlin and shot, or tortured at the Lubianka prison, as that murderous bastard Stalin did to many of his imagined “enemies.”

[Little Ray]

So was IBM, for which I once worked. They provided card punch and card reader machinery that was (eventually) used in the implementation of the “Final Solution.” And Ford built Opel plants in Germany which produce trucks for them. Henry Ford was as much, or more, an anti-Semite than Hitler.
SO WHAT?
We were NOT at war with Germany. Doing business with them was NOT against the law. We were also involved in the economy of the Soviet Union - IMHO, that was a lot worse!
At that time, a lot of people thought that the choices for future of society was between Fascism and Communism. Personally, I think the jury is still out on that one...

The Soviets were an evil regime. They helped create the Nazis and helped them rearm when it was illegal according to treaty obligations. They should have been held culpable at the end of the war for this, and for helping start the war with the invasion of Poland and securing Nazi Germany's Eastern flank during its initial stages. I'm glad it blew up on them.

[warsaw44]

- the same Stalin that had any remaining resistance fighters rounded up after the Soviets finally entered Warsaw.

[warsaw44]

According to “ The Times Atlas of World War Two “ THREE MILLION Russian POWs were killed after liberation.