PING !
After June 22 the British commies went from somabulent to frenetic demanding a 2nd Front NOW!
Patton was right....we should have just kept rolling over those bolshevik b*stards!
French forces fought throughout the Italian campeign until 1944 and their diversion to Anvil which was renamed Dragoon.
German forces included allies: Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovania, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Finland. SS (loyal to Hitler period) had units composed of all of the above, plus: Albanians, Bosnians, French, British, Belgian (per capita more then even Germans), Dutch, Ukranians and Greeks.
Very interesting article...
At least the US caught on by 1948. Who knows what the world would be like if we didn't?
Reaching Moscow is hardly a fringe of Russia. Further, Kharkov and Lughansk were both Russian built cities, as was all of the Crimea. Belograd, Pskov are also major cities, were taken. Stalingrad was not a major city, it became a major focal point. This guy needs to get some geography lessons.
So historians have a problem. Somehow they must find a way of describing a complicated war in which the combined forces of western democracy and Stalinist tyranny triumphed over the Axis. They must give pride of place to the role which the Soviet Union played in the military defeat of Germany, just as the US shouldered the main burden of the war against Japan. ==
Exactly. We can explain what heppened as uneasy allience. But anyway what done is for good.
The brits usually manage to leave the US out of WW2, also.
I recall something James Michener wrote about the 20th Anniversary of D-Day. It seems the French had commissioned a "commemorative" stamp which depicted the heroic French Commandos coming ashore at Normandy with a large Frog flag. Somewhere in the distance you could make out British and American flags. I know that the Russians, that is the Russians + the other captive nations that made up the former USSR, made the greatest human sacrifice of any Allied nation in WWII, but it is also true that in large measure their sacrifice was due as much to the self-delusional paranoia of their ruthless Communist dictator, as it was to German action. Whether the Russians could have/would have stood alone against Nazi Germany, as Britain did, or whether the Russians could ever have achieved victory without the material support the US provided, is definitely an open question, at least.
"And it (the Soviet Union) was ruled by a Georgian tyrant who entered the war against the Reich only when attacked himself."
Bovine scat.
The USSR entered the war with the signing of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and the dissection of Poland. They initially entered as allies of Hitler. This must not be forgotten.
Interesting article.
I differ with the conclusions that the author draws about the abilities of the Soviet armies. The sheer numbers of casualties they inflicted on the Germans does not clearly indicate their prowess on the battlefield.
History has shown that Stalin would send unarmed prisoners into battle ahead of the troops to "soak up" mines, rifle fire and other means of German efforts. That is not prowess, that is butchery.
We should recognize it for what it is.
BTTT for later, more thorough read.