Not true. Stalingrad decisively turned the tide.
Even before D-Day, Hitler had already lost the war. Italy was gone, and the Russian tide was inexorably on the march.
I once read that D-Day was launched primarily to prevent Russia from taking most of Europe.
Stalin was of the opinion that Russia had done most of the fighting, and suffered most of the casualties, whereupon the Allies came in at the last moment to steal the prize.
Stalin had wanted the Allies to enter much earlier. Instead, from his point of view, the Allies waited until their entry was no longer needed.
The Russians didn’t fight in North Africa, Italy and didn’t posses a strategic air force that pounded the Reich nor did they do any of the heavy fighting in the Pacific.
America poured billions of aid into the USSR and the Russians never paid a dime for any of it.
I’m sick and tired of hearing that Russia won WW2.
Well, Stalin was a psycho, so I wouldn't give too much thought to his ramblings.
A. Stalin conspired with Hitler to invade Poland and thus start WWII.
B. Stalin was an accomplished mass-murderer before Hitler got warmed up.
C. Stalin materially supported the nazis in their war effort against the Allies right up until 1941.
D. Stalin's hope was that the Allies and the Nazis would wipe each other out and then the bolsheviks would march in for all the marbles. His buddy Hitler ruined that plan.
E. Human wave tactics, with unarmed conscripts tend to lead to high casualties.
F. "From October 1, 1941, to May 31, 1945, the United States delivered to the Soviet Union 427,284 trucks, 13,303 combat vehicles, 35,170 motorcycles, 2,328 ordnance service vehicles, 2,670,371 tons of petroleum products (gasoline and oil) or 57.8 percent of the aviation fuel including nearly 90 percent of high-octane fuel used,[35] 4,478,116 tons of foodstuffs (canned meats, sugar, flour, salt, etc.), 1,911 steam locomotives, 66 diesel locomotives, 9,920 flat cars, 1,000 dump cars, 120 tank cars, and 35 heavy machinery cars. Ordnance goods (ammunition, artillery shells, mines, assorted explosives) provided amounted to 53 percent of total domestic consumption.[35] One item typical of many was a tire plant that was lifted bodily from the Ford Company's River Rouge Plant and transferred to the USSR."
G. While the German army remained heavily dependent on horses throughout the war, America's contributions to the Soviets turned their army into a mechanized juggernaut.
H. While the United States fought a second war with Imperial Japan, the Soviets didn't lift a finger to assist in that effort. In fact, Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with the Japanese and did nothing against them until the very end of the war.
I. The Allies round-the-clock bombing forced Hitler to transfer aircraft, pilots and thousands of 88 mm anti-aircraft guns. Those guns were also highly effective against armor, so their removal was extremely beneficial to the Soviets.
J. "Allies came in at the last moment to steal the prize" - What "prize"? Ohhhh, Western Europe. Yeah, we did do that.
K. Patton was right.
The Soviet Union didn't win squat without the Allies, and more specifically, the United States.