[ealgeone]

Russia wants to take a lot of the credit for victory in the east, which should be laid at the feet of the Russian winter, which decimated the Germans as they advanced on Stalingrad, etc.

Russia should take a lot of credit for victory in the east.

Poor strategy doomed the Germans at Stalingrad. The winter didn't help, but it wasn't the primary reason they defeated the Germans.

[Its All Over Except ...]

In the end it was American know-how, American arms in the lend-lease agreement, and the Russian winter that doomed the Nazis.