Does the Putin Gang also now deny the importance of Lend-Lease?
Then again, what should the Russians expect? Thanks to Progressive Libtards taking over our schools, our younger generations are lucky if they know anything positive about our own contributions to World War II.
It was the soviet winter that did the Nazi’s in in the East, not the soviet military.
Lend lease was absolutely critical to the Soviet effort. A relative of mine was in the merchant marines handmade the murmansk trip several times. He spent the rest of his life amazed that he lived. And the Russians do you have something to be proud of in the seven out of every nine dead German soldiers were killed on the Eastern Front.
The truth is that they did most of the heavy lifting. And the truth of it is, that had the Landings in Italy France and Normandy not been conducted, it would have been a much longer harder fight for them to make it all the way to Berlin. It’s also just as true that had we landed in 42 we would have faced a much larger, better equipped, and more dangerous Nazi army. The fact of the matter is we benefited from their effort, and they’ve benefited from D-Day and the fight in Western Europe. Neither of us really could have accomplished it without the other, which is why that Alliance existed
But this is really just a parlor game 4 idiots that want to beat their chest 75 years later and had nothing to do with it. The truth of it is, it took America’s Manufacturing and Technical prowess and the complete mobilization and professionalizing of our military, and it took the Russian people suffering brutally in terms of blood to beat down those Nazi bastards.
Nobody had a walk in the park. I can understand why Stalin was pressuring us and the Brits to open a second front. They were in desperation mode, in a fight for survival. And I understand why we didn’t do it, by 1944, our army was a very different animal than it was in the Summer of 42. And we spent a good solid 18 months to 2 years wrecking the luftwaffe which had to be accomplished.
Despite the Parlor game of today, there was plenty of suffering, and plenty of hard work that happened on both sides.
Also, the USSR wasn’t fighting the other two Axis nations. The Soviets didn’t bother declaring war on Japan until 9 August 1945.
Without US-made trucks the Soviet armies would have been tightly tied to their rail lines. Even small mechanized counterattacks by the Germans would have devastated leg infantry and tanks that couldn’t go far for lack of fuel trucks. Plus a good chunk of Soviet frontal aviation were Bell P-39’s and P-63’s.
Finally, Stalin was begging for a “second front” beginning in 1942, and his complaints only got louder until he finally got the Normandy landings. A big part of the western allies’ Italian fiasco was driven by a need to placate Uncle Joe.