[johnb838]

We didn't have any help in the Pacific theater. And I don't think you can compare the casualty statistics because Stalin believed in the human wave and devalued human life. We tried to minimize our casualites with mixed success.

[Burkeman1]

About 15 percent of our war effort was directed against Japan. Japan was never priority one. And without question Stalin's military had tactics that needlessly raised casualties. But that still doesn't even make up for the scale of German committment of the Eastern Front as compared to the Western. If anything- the brutal tactics that sent Russian soldiers needlessly to their deaths most likely prolonged the war in the East.

[dmz]

Points well taken, but it does not minimize the fact that we definitely did not win WW2 on our own. I think in time we could have, but thankfully did not have to foot that bill (economic and human) on our own.

The soviet tactics were out of necessity, as they had surplus people but inadequate arms for those numbers.

[Atlantic Friend]

YOu didn't have any help in the Pacific ??? Well, that's real nice for the Australian, British, Chinese, Dutch, Indian and New-Zelander troops that fought and died there, pal.