[Jim Noble]

By that summer, the Allies had managed to slow the forward march of the powerful German war machine Soviet Union had basically won the war, and the end of Nazi Germany was inevitable.

Fixed it.

[ealgeone]

With substantial US and British help.

Left on their own the Soviets would have lost to Germany. Presuming a battle only between Germany and Russia.

[Stosh]

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.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Very True, The Eastern Front is the forgotten part of the war and brutality of it stuns the imagination.

[Treeless Branch]

Hard to disagree with that if you are a student of history. Still DDay was an amazing and historic operation and success. Germany and the SU might’ve reached a truce had we not been successful.