[Eternal_Bear]

Stalin and his commissars were evil as hell and deserved Hitler's fate but hey the Soviet Army tore the guts out of the Wehrmacht BEFORE there was a Second Front. Just compare the number of American tank aces to Soviet tank aces to gauge the magnitude of enemy forces engagned.

I also agree Patton should have been unleased on the Soviets after V-J Day.

[Casaubon]

to be honest Russia did play a strategic part in the end of ww2.

in the terms of modern day gamers the russians "zerged" the germans.

never the less...

Its not their actions during ww2...its russias actions after. I guess Pooty Poo didnt mention that.

[agincourt1415]

Yeah, and lets forget about the little episode of dividing Poland between the Soviets and Hitler, which percipitated the Whole WWII.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I respectfully submit that the reason the Soviet army defeated the German armies was Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgi Zhukov and the individual Soviet soldier.

Zhukov (together with Dwight Eisenhower) were the two best Generals in WWII (IMHO)

[kellynla]

Interesting perspective by Putin of the Russian victory in WWII.
I'll have to brush up on my Russian. I didn't know that the Russian synonym for "communism" is "liberation!" LOL

I think those 11 countries, whichever ones Putin is referring to that were under the thumb communism and the tens of millions of people who were slaughtered under Stalin's rule from 1924-53, might have a different opinion than Putin's. I think going from the "frying pan to the fire", might be a more accurate characterization.

I won't get into the Russian atrocities at this time and Patton's opinion of the Russian army.

[muir_redwoods]

"COURAGE OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE WAS THE MAJOR FORCE THAT DESTROYED NAZISM - PUTIN"

MISMANAGEMENT AND ATROCIOUS LEADERSHIP BY STALINIST FOOLS CONTRIBUTED GREATLY TO THE HORRENDOUS SOVIET WAR DEAD IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE NAZIS - MUIR_REDWOODS

sorry for the caps