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Don’t forget how the Soviet Union saved the world from Hitler
The Washington Post ^ | May 8, 2015 | By Ishaan Tharoor

Posted on 05/08/2015 10:01:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

In the Western popular imagination -- particularly the American one -- World War II is a conflict we won. It was fought on the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima, through the rubble of recaptured French towns and capped by sepia-toned scenes of joy and young love in New York. It was a victory shaped by the steeliness of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the moral fiber of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the awesome power of an atomic bomb.

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1 posted on 05/08/2015 10:01:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Let me guess: all the ordnance and supplies we got from the mighty Soviet economy finally enabled us to launch a second front, just in time to make it look we were doing something.


2 posted on 05/08/2015 10:04:35 PM PDT by FredZarguna (On your deathbed you will receive total consciousness. So I got that goin' for me.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They defeated the competition for the “Bloodthirsty Regime of the Century” award.


3 posted on 05/08/2015 10:05:01 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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its a team work, like in basketball. Americans scored the final basket to win the match, but couldn’t haver done it without the other players


4 posted on 05/08/2015 10:07:30 PM PDT by 4rcane
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I won’t forget how the Soviet Union conspired with Hitler to divide Poland and start WWII.


5 posted on 05/08/2015 10:10:16 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Army Air Corps

6 posted on 05/08/2015 10:10:39 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Could WE have a break?


7 posted on 05/08/2015 10:11:14 PM PDT by stanne
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To: 4rcane

Except without the United States, the other players couldn’t have fielded a team.


8 posted on 05/08/2015 10:11:24 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: MinorityRepublican

Don’t forget the Soviet Union was Hitler’s ally and made it possible for him to try to conquer the world.


9 posted on 05/08/2015 10:12:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Franklin Diablo Roosevelt shackled the military as WWII was drawing to a close. That would have been a golden opportunity to utterly destroy the USSR. FDR, being a marxist, couldn’t see his beloved communist nation overthrown. As Senator Joseph McCarthy later conclusively proved, the corrupt Roosevelt regime was teeming with commies.


10 posted on 05/08/2015 10:13:58 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Soviet Union was also responsible for propaganda in the U.S. to get the U.S. to stay out of the war and calling FDR and imperialist who was war-mongering Germany.


11 posted on 05/08/2015 10:14:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Ahhhh yes the revisionist insight from a typical commie. Don’t let facts get in theway


12 posted on 05/08/2015 10:17:42 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: MinorityRepublican

Meanwhile, with its other fist, the USA destroyed Imperial Japan.


13 posted on 05/08/2015 10:19:00 PM PDT by Argus
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I’ve still never seen one picture ever of our troops in tuxes and tails as they waltzed through token resistance in Europe like these stories always try to tell us.

In these tales they always leave out the Russian punishment battalions which had one responsibility of clearing mine fields by walking through them, shooting their own troops if they didn’t attack, and sending in two soldiers with one gun. The survivors would then pick up the guns from dead. They were set up for huge casualties in every campaign.


14 posted on 05/08/2015 10:19:21 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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If the Soviets had not left Russia after they wore out Hitler, we still would have beaten the pants off Hitler without them.


15 posted on 05/08/2015 10:19:38 PM PDT by Slyfox (If I'm ever accused of being a Christian, I'd like there to be enough evidence to convict me)
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And don't forget that until Hitler attacked Stalin's USSR, they had a non-aggression pact that made them erstwhile allies. The problem was quite simple. The world simply wasn't big enough for both Hitler & Stalin. National and universal socialism just don't get along well.

And until that time, the American left opposed America getting involved in any way.

Mark

16 posted on 05/08/2015 10:19:41 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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The claim also is that the soviets won the war in the pacific.
Lol.


17 posted on 05/08/2015 10:19:50 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Without the war production of American Factories, Germany would have won WW2 easily.

Buried by Soviet propaganda after WW2 is that somewhere between 200-400 US-built Lee’s, Shermans, and Grants were engaged at the Battle of Kursk, in 1943.
They called the M3 Lee “the Coffin for seven brothers”, and felt the Sherman was inferior to the T-34. (it was).

Almost all of the ammunition (made with 26 million pounds of U.S.-provided Glycerin) used at Kursk was delivered in American-built trucks.

These facts about American (and British) aid to the Russians became an Inconvenient truth in the propaganda war after the end of WW2.

What cannot be denied, however, is that while we did the building, they did the dying. In massive, unbelievable numbers.


18 posted on 05/08/2015 10:19:51 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: nickcarraway
The Soviet Union was also responsible for propaganda in the U.S. to get the U.S. to stay out of the war

And that kinda fell apart when Germany declared war on the U.S.

19 posted on 05/08/2015 10:20:17 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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Hitler won WWII. The Dutch are murdering themselves almost as fast as Hitler murdered them. Same all over Western Europe and North America. The Hitlerians are organized as Planned Parenthood, the Democrat party, the “Sustainable Development” movement, the global warming hoax industry, etc.


20 posted on 05/08/2015 10:21:38 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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