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To: kronos77

Hey Comrade, the only reason the Soviets won the ‘Great Patriotic War’ was because of tons of lend lease from the U.S. and the West that was never paid for, and the reason the vaunted Red Army had such a hard time was because Uncle Joe Stalin purged the military of any truly capable officers and was left with political apparatchiks and other Communist Party stooges.

But you go right ahead and enjoy your fantasy world.


13 posted on 08/14/2008 2:47:05 PM PDT by mkjessup (Romania had the Ceausescus, America has the Clintons.)
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To: mkjessup

Sorry...
How old are you?
15? 20?


16 posted on 08/14/2008 2:51:32 PM PDT by kronos77 (Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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To: mkjessup

And more,
Did you knew that commander of Russian 58th Army was wounded in georgia while he was LEADING his troops?
And when that hapened to georgian or NATo general?

Im talking about B-A-L-L-S.
That, my friend you truly need wor winning the war.
Russians hade them and Georgians didnt.


19 posted on 08/14/2008 2:54:08 PM PDT by kronos77 (Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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To: mkjessup
Hey Comrade, the only reason the Soviets won the ‘Great Patriotic War’ was because of tons of lend lease from the U.S. and the West that was never paid for

It would have taken a year longer, but the consensus among historians is that the Russians would have won against the Germans, with or without our help.

When the Germans failed to take Moscow and Russia stayed in the war, it became a war of attrition, which the Germans simply could not win.

25 posted on 08/14/2008 3:00:12 PM PDT by Citizen Blade ("Please... I go through everyone's trash." The Question)
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To: mkjessup
Hey Comrade, the only reason the Soviets won the ‘Great Patriotic War’ was because of tons of lend lease from the U.S. and the West that was never paid for

It, in part, allowed them to bleed the Germans. In Overy's "Russia's War", he estimated the Soviets, on average, suffered over 2000 casualties a day from Barbarossa's first day to the fall of Berlin. Quite the butcher's bill.

Of course, the Soviet system was entirely without mercy to it's own as well, executing over 150,000 soldiers during the war's first two years alone.

34 posted on 08/14/2008 3:06:51 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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