Stalin won the the war because of American Lend Lease (that Russia never paid back) and the heroes of D-Day.
Correct, and they turned around and gave a lot of the equipment and resources they got from the US and gave it to the CCP after the war.
One of the rarely talked about reasons why the CCP was able to win the civil war and take over China.
Stalin won the war because of the Lend Lease Act, AND D-Day.... but also because he open sacrificed millions of young men in the same manner that he did at the battle of Stalingrad... make them run at German tanks and machine gun nests, as their only way to slow down their advance. It was the only "military strategy" that he had... and as disgusting and abhorrent as it was, it DID work. Had Stalingrad fell, Russia would have fallen, and then Hitler would have only a 1-front war to worry about. Britain would be crushed, and the US would not be interested in continuing the fight without any allies, especially a 2-front war without any allies.
Stalin was evil, brutal, and incompetent, but his "plan" to defend Stalingrad worked.... with a huge and lucky assist from a particularly bad Russian Winter.
“Stalin won the the war because of American Lend Lease (that Russia never paid back) and the heroes of D-Day.”
I toured a museum in Yalta in 1988. Had some WWII vets in the group. The US tour guide told us beforehand that they will tell a tremendous story about how Russia saved the US from certain defeat. They know they are lying. We know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. But that’s the only story they are allowed to tell, and if you think it’s going to set you off just stay out of that museum.