Posted on 06/05/2019 6:24:22 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia told the West on Wednesday the Normandy landings on D-Day in 1944 did not play a decisive role in ending World War II and that the Allied war effort should not be exaggerated.
Moscow's comments might irk war veterans in Britain where the 75th anniversary on Wednesday of the largest seaborne invasion in history was marked at a ceremony in Portsmouth attended by Queen Elizabeth and world leaders including Donald Trump and Angela Merkel.
Speaking at a weekly news conference in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova offered a tribute to those who died on the western front of World War II and said Moscow appreciated the Allied war effort.
"It should of course not be exaggerated. And especially not at the same time as diminishing the Soviet Union's titanic efforts, without which this victory simply would not have happened," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
Because that's precisely what Stalin wanted. You think he shed a tear over those deaths? He probably appreciated that it created less mouths to feed, while at the same, allowed him to claim moral superiority because of the fact that they did lose so many, although I assert they could have achieved victory all the same with much fewer casualties.
The funniest story was when Goering turned himself in to the Americans, he really thought the Americans were going to ask him to help with the governing of Post-War Germany.
Early in the days of Barbarossa, a German General saw the T-34 in action for the first time. He remarked, that if the Soviets could manage to mass-produce the T-34, Germany would lose the war.
Ike was right.
Gee, I wonder if it’s because the Kremlin wasn’t involved in the operation.
The Russian people were tremendously courageous in their own right. I often feel sorry for the people of Russia.
Yes it was. They deserve most credit for the defeat of
Germany.
Very few Americans know Stalin’s army was enhanced by Ford’s manufacturing prowess. The automobile factory in the Soviet Union was at Groky. The Ford facility manufactured the Soviet version of the Model A & B Fords automobiles. The Soviets also manufactured the GAZ series light and medium duty trucks, (the only trucks made in the USSR). The engines were modified to power some of the BT series light tanks, they were used in the GAZ 67, a 4 wheel vehicle similar to our jeep. And they manufactured several different caliber anti tank guns at the factory.
I greatly admire the soldiers of the Red Army (those who didn’t rape, that is), they were fighting for their Motherland, against an enemy that wanted to annihilate or enslave them, they couldn’t choose their leaders.
re: “Kremlin Says D-Day Wasn’t Decisive in Ending World War II”
There is a third view or perspective out there called “The Greatest Story Never Told”.
Looks to be revisionist history favoring Germany’s National Socialists. Author seems to be one Dennis (not so) Wise.
Of course.
The policy was to let them kill each other and profit
Henry Ford was a strange guy.
He was very helpful to the Bolsheviks in the early days of the Soviet Government. Sent engineers, expertise to help the Leninist government industrialize. Some of his engineers got all expenses paid often permanent vacations in the Russian Artic regions. They apparently enjoyed it so much their loved ones till haven’t heard from them.
Re: hedgerows.
Part of the reason Normandy was selected was because the peninsula could be isolated by air & sea power to allow a lodgement to be formed. Problem is that if the terrain like that cuts both ways. It becomes a real b*tch to breakout when you’re ready. Witness Montgomery stalled before Caen.
The Russians whine about this every D-Day.
They deserved everything they got in the war, since they cut a deal with Hitler to divide up Poland.
Russia is always playing the small dik card.
Nobody loves you because you were a force for oppression and tyranny and still are.
Not only the soldiers, who deserve credit, but also the PEOPLE, the regular, ordinary citizens of the country.
What moxie.
Ford was an equal opportunity capitalist. He had manufacturing operations in Japan, German, Italy, and the Soviet Union. But he wasn’t the only ones to aid Soviet manufacturing. GM sent a team of production engineers to the Soviet Union in 1943. They helped the Soviets streamline the production of the T-34 series tanks.
Not to mention the murder of 20,000 Polish officers, who could have helped in the fight against the Nazis.
Especially the Heroes of Leningrad, who had no clue that after the war, they would face Stalin’s wrath.
Hot but Russian.
That’s got it’s own ‘hot/crazy’ matrix. There’s just a sociopathic streak to them I never understood.
The head of their rocket program during the space race was imprisoned for an entire decade before they let him actually do his job.
I’d be a little pissed after that. I guess that’s what happens when most of your country is above the Arctic Circle.
Perhaps and again what I am going to refer might just be his PR but he made some strange pro-Bolshevik semi-socialist statements about Russia back then. I will try and dig them out.
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