[dfwgator]

Russia drew the short straw and had to pay in blood.

A lot of that blood could have been avoided if they had a different ruler....The Soviet Union won, in spite of Stalin.

[Monterrosa-24]

Yes ideed, Solzhenitsyn said as much.

As for Patton, the German general F.W. von Mellenthin in his memoir PANZER BATTLES praised Patton as a man who “could think along big lines”. Remember too that Patton would have made even more progress if so much material support had gone to fiascoes like Market Garden.

[muawiyah]

Could be ~ that last battle was rugged. The Germans didn't want to go down, they were fighting with their backs to the wall, the enemy was coming for their homes ~ all that stuff.

We could have all waited a few months and turned Germany into a sea of radioactive mud.

Did you ever stop to think that in WWII all choices were bad choices. Compound that with the fact that psychopathic killers are incapable of being good judges of others, and you had one terrible mess.