[WhiskeyX]

“In the west Russia gets little credit for their role in WWII.”

If you mean “Russia gets little credit for their role in WWII” as an ally of Hitler’s NAZI Germany and co-conspirator in launching WWII against Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia, and Bukovina; you are correct.

If you mean “Russia gets little credit for their role in WWII” as a member of the Allies, you are incorrect. Western media gives Russia extensive credit for its role in WWII, and arguably much more credit than Russia earned.

[Vermont Lt]

If the Russians hadn’t spent millions of lives, we never would have beaten Hitler.

It doesn’t mean I am a commie for God’s sake.

Sometimes the ignorance around here is staggering.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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“In the west Russia gets little credit for their role in WWII.”


Yeah ... if you're taking to loons like Ron and Rand Paul ...


Any "knowlegable" WWII historian knows that, while Stalin was personally an evil SOB, he did lead (or order at the point of a bayonet) some ten million Russian soldiers to their death to defeat Hitler on the Eastern Front.


Take a read on "In Deadly Combat" by Gottlob Herbert Bidermann.

Amazon Link:

http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Combat-Soldiers-Eastern-Studies/dp/0700611223/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428761049&sr=1-1&keywords=in+deadly+combat


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[GeronL]

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Russia was using US-UK tanks, trucks, boots and everything else through lend-lease because they didn’t have nearly enough productive capacity