Posted on 06/09/2010 11:31:19 PM PDT by Boucheau
The small town of Bedford, Va., is home to 21 men who sacrificed their lives on D-Day, June 6, 1944. It is now also the home of one of the world's few public memorial busts of communist dictator Josef Stalin.
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If it were in Augusta County, that would have already happened.
Ya know, I hate encourage crimes like vandalism, but this would be just too good an opportunity for some marksmanship demonstrations...
Need to ball ammo, or, better yet, AP, though.
Battle of Normandy web-site records ZERO French military casualties. Not only did the French not help militarily. But that pompous ass De Gaulle wouldn’t even go on the radio and tell French people to cooperate. Ike didn’t even tell him about the invasion until the day before. He was not to be trusted.
I would agree with that. He realized very quickly during the Winter War that offing so many of his military leadership was a devastatingly bad mistake. It allowed the Finns to hold off a much larger Soviet force for 4 months in what on paper should have been a very quick and decisive conquest for the Soviets.
My pleasure.
Without Lend-Lease though he never would have been able to pull that off. The Western Allies provided him with the machine tools needed to get the industry that had to be evacuated over the Urals up and running. Also, Stalin was able to maintain a mostly motorized force without having to use industry to build trucks. The bulk of the Soviet logistical motorization was provided by the United States allowing the Soviets to focus on making the T-34 and more artillery than you can imagine.
During the Cold War the roll of Lend Lease was downplayed by the Soviets for obvious political reasons. Over the last 10 years though more and more old Soviet archive files have revealed just how significant this lifeline was to keeping the Soviets from folding altogether. The first shipments of the First Moscow Protocol sent to the Soviets on the dangerous run from England to Archangel were not large, but just enough to keep the Soviet Union in the war which was of vital importance to Churchill and Roosevelt. Now I do not agree that if the Soviet Union had surrendered that the Allies would have lost the war, but it would have taken significantly longer to win and likely would have resulted in a tactical nuclear war by the Allies in Europe.
I didn’t mean it that way.
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