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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.

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.

"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!

For the French, their whole world was shattered in 1940 - and they didn't know that they could ever be free of the Germans.

Some French did willingly and enthusiastically collaborate with the Germans.

Others, just by trying to go on with their lives and keep things together became passive collaborators.

If what happened to France happened to us, Americans wouldn't behave so differently.