with this face?
Guess I missed that part of “The Longest Day” where the red army stormed ashore at Normandy.
Stalin had just about zero to do with D-Day itself. He was too involved with his own troop/resources build up for his take over assault on Eastern Europe. He sided with Roosevelt vs Churchill to manipulate where the invasion in the West would occur. (That was it!) Churchill wanted to just keep pushing north from Italy as we were already there, but that would have put the US/British forces right in the middle of Stalin’s expansionist agenda, as we would have had to swing east of the Italian Alps through today’s Slovenia. The Normandy invasion quickly bogged down and Churchill had to practically beg Stalin to begin his Eastern Campaign early to ease German resistance on the Western Front. The Soviet push, Operation Bagration, began 16 days after the D-Day Invasion. Stalin’s bust must go!