Had a buddy of mine who would always insist it was the Russkies who won the war, and who certainly paid the greater butcher’s bill when it came to the dead and wounded.
To which I’d always reply they damn well better have ended up with the sh*tty end of that stick, since it was the stinking Ribbentrop-Molotov pact that allowed the Nazis to gain the momentum to get the upper hand in Europe in the first place.
The Soviets were thrilled when Hitler was invading France and bombing Britain, they even gave Hitler a lot of material for his war machine during those years. Even in the 1941 May Day Parade, six weeks before the Operation Barbarossa started, Nazi and Soviet Generals were in Red Square saluting each other.