[SkyDancer]

History says Russia gutted the German military.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

History says Russia gutted the German military. Yes militarily this is true, but ideologically their cause was just as hateful and murderous. Defeating Nazi-ISM, and killing a bunch of Germans are two different things in my opinion. And because anti-Semitism was so widespread in France, most people fell into either pro-Hitler or pro-Stalin factions...Only members of the Resistance had belief in the American/British dimension of the effort.

[rrrod]

Lack of supplies and the weather gutted the Nazis in the east....

[sparklite2]

History says Russia gutted the German military

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My history says the Russian winter for which the Germans were underprepared defeated them.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

And finally, the other dimension of the USSR's war performance conveniently left out out of the narrative are the massive acts of Rape, Raid, and Rampage that accompanied their 'victories' west of Russia.

So again, the battle for memory right now, is not about who can claim a larger role in the military effort against the Nazis -- but about who can claim credit for the MORAL victory that liberated the continent at large from the two equally awful menaces of Bolshevism and National Socialism.