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Americans, French, Germans give America credit for Nazism's Defeat
YouGov ^
| 2018
| Elise Czajkowski
Posted on 06/08/2019 7:35:58 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
YouGov asked citizens from four countries deeply involved in the European theater of WWII (the UK, France, Germany, and the US) who they thought was most responsible for defeating the Nazis the Americans, the British, or the Russians. Those in the UK were the only country who choose the British; the other three were most likely to choose the Americans.
Intriguingly, historical data shows that at the close of the Second World War the French public believed that it was the Russians, not the Americans, who had done the most to defeat the Nazis. A survey conducted by IFOP in May 1945 showed that 57% of French people credited the-then USSR with having made the greatest contribution to Nazi defeat, compared to just 20% backing the USA and 12% the UK.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: france; germany; uk; worldwar2; wwii
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To: DIRTYSECRET
70% of trucks and most of the ammo provided to the USSR during war by America. Plus food. Without it...?
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:14:41 AM PDT
by
luvbach1
(I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
The main reason we were against Germany is because we were aligned with Britain and the treaty they had with Japan.
Communism is ***not*** the lesser of two evils compared to fascism. They are equal in evil.
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:21:05 AM PDT
by
JamesP81
(The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
How about credit for carrying on the Nazi goals of global domination and enslavement?
That distinction belongs to their one and only undefeated ally, Islam.
We would have bombed them back into the stone age, but they were already there.
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:21:18 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
To: FLT-bird
Yes Russians lost millions, but it was millions more than necessary because of Stalin’s ineptitude.
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:23:19 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: JamesP81
Nazism is Communism with snappier uniforms.
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:23:59 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: SkyDancer
Lack of supplies and the weather gutted the Nazis in the east....
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:33:20 AM PDT
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
To: dfwgator
Maybe if Stalin didnt agree to carve up Poland with Hitler, Russia wouldnt have had to fight the Nazis. Maybe if Pilsudski didn't sign a nonaggression pact with Hitler in 1932, Germany wouldn't have had time to rearm itself.
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:36:01 AM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: FLT-bird
Thanks for the reality shot.
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:36:38 AM PDT
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
A survey conducted by IFOP in May 1945 showed that 57% of French people credited the-then USSR with having made the greatest contribution to Nazi defeat, compared to just 20% backing the USA causal chain: who made it possible for the Ruskies to help defeat the nazis?
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:36:50 AM PDT
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: mac_truck
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:38:18 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: CondoleezzaProtege; Trump20162020; DIRTYSECRET
"History says Russia gutted the German military.
Getting one's own people slaughtered through piss poor leadership shouldn't be the metric on who did the most
"I think Russia did more than any other one nation in defeating Germany during the Second World War.
On the Eastern Front, this true.
However this was a WORLD WAR and the United States were fighting Nazi's in North Africa, Italy, the Atlantic AND we were fighting the Japs largely by ourselves(Brits is have a few ships and men)
We were also bombing the Germany homeland long before a single Bolshevik set foot on German soil.
Add in we were sending vast amounts of war material through the Arctic routes(which wasn't easy) While the Reds were fleeing before the Nazi hordes , they were burning and blowing up anything that could be of use to the Wehrmacht, American factories were churning out trucks, tranks, airplanes and yes, SPAM to feed the fleeing Ruskies. Without our aid(shipped to them using our maritime shipping)
USSR might well have made a truce if America and all her material and manpower sat on the sidelines.
The Ruskies didn't jump in to fight the Japs until we dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and only to grab the Northern Japanese Islands for themselves.
F ^ck the Ruskies!
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:42:23 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
To: rrrod
Lost a lot of soldiers too.
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posted on
06/08/2019 8:47:47 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
I wonder if the results from the most recent polls are due to the fact that the USSR is no more and that Russia is no longer a communist state and in fact embraced Christianity.
To: FLT-bird
Do you remember, Mr. Stalin, how we both fought side by side?
When Hitler and Mussolini had you whipped, and how you cried?
Uncle Sam, he came to help you, gave you strength, we gave you all.
And now your great ambition is to see our nation fall.
Roy Acuff, from Advice to Joe
To: Michael.SF.
"There were about 4.7 million German military deaths in WWII and about 3.5 million of those were killed by the Russians.
This is where Hitler's obsession with race bit him in the ass... bigly.
Viewing the Slavic people as less than human but little better than Jews, he set his Einsatzgruppen goon squads to eliminate the "trash" for his "pure race". Which is tragic because as the Wehrmacht marched into these territories they were seen as liberators from the oppressive Stalinist regime
Had the SS enlisted and trained these oppressed anti-Bolsheviks people who already had a raging hatred for all thing Communist and Stalin in particular, these newly assembled divisions would have been more fanatical than the SS itself and would throw themselves into battle with such fever to avenge their fathers and brothers that Stalin, clowering in his bunker, would ponder whether cyanide or the rope would be the best options.
Britain wouldn't have lasted long and even if FDR developed THE BOMB, without England's airstripes to reach Berlin, the "Enola Gay" would be meet with a ring of ant- hostile anti-aircraft platforms, aided with a vastly improved radar detection, and waves of Messerschmitt 109's and Fluckwolf 190s and the new Messerschmitt 262 jet, Hitler would have effective control of the world.
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posted on
06/08/2019 9:25:41 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
To: RedMonqey
But Hitler used lots of Ukrainians are Camp Guards.
I wonder if he promised the Ukrainians their own “puppet” State, like Vichy France, if he could have gotten Ukrainians to fight on their side.
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posted on
06/08/2019 9:27:20 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Michael.SF.
With America and Russia fighting the same foe, Germany was doomed.
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You’ve made a great point. Russia and the US were a team. We both ought to be congratulating each other for what we did, not playing juvenile games of oneupmanship.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Naziism was defeated mainly by straight men, many of them between the ages of 18 and 20, enriched by “toxic masculinity.”
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posted on
06/08/2019 10:02:42 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(A Manichaean struggle between TRUTH and evil grips America. President Trump holds the Light of TRUTH)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Russia destroyed the Nazis, The Americans and the British Empire stopped the Communists completely taking over the continent. That was our contribution to Europe’s freedom.
To: FLT-bird
IMHO Western material aid to Russia only sped up Germany’s defeat. It was a doomed prospect from the start. The USSR was simply far too big for Germany to defeat and occupy. It was an insane idea doomed to failure from the start.
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