The Soviets were our "allies" (Co-belligerents would be a better word) in WWII because Hitler attacked the Soviet Union before Stalin was ready to return the favor. Admittedly a lot of Russians died for their country in "The Great Patriotic War", but, per Patton, that's not how wars are won. Much of those losses can be attributed to Stalin's purges of his officer corps. The loss of those officers' leadership skills undoubtedly led to much higher casualty rates than there should have been.
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I don’t know much about the history of WWII, but someone just told me that the officer purges came AFTER the war not during it??