Too bad the UK and the US couldn’t have figured out a way to let Stalin and Hitler bash each others brains out for a few years before getting involved.
That was Stalin's plan: Let the Nazis and the Allies beat each other's brains out and then the soviet union would roll in to sweep up the pieces. He didn't figure that France would collapse in six weeks.
> Too bad the UK and the US couldn’t have figured out a way to let Stalin and Hitler bash each others brains out for a few years before getting involved.
They did. The US didn’t have troops on the ground until late 42, and even then it wasn’t much compared to the scale of the ear in the East.
I attended a program on WWII recently. One of the speakers was an immigrant from Russia. She showed how their textbooks trivialized the Normandy invasion, claiming that the Allies met only minor resistance.
From August 1944 to Feb. 1945, the Soviets stopped advancing in Poland (they did move forward during that period in the Balkans). Supposedly they had to do so for logistical reasons. It was during that period that Hitler launched the offensive in the West that we call the Battle of the Bulge.
When Soviet troops first met up with American troops in Germany, they thought we were using their tanks. We had given the Soviets a huge number of Sherman tanks but the Red Army soldiers didn't realize they were made in the US, not in the USSR.
I attended a program on WWII recently. One of the speakers was an immigrant from Russia. She showed how their textbooks trivialized the Normandy invasion, claiming that the Allies met only minor resistance.
From August 1944 to Feb. 1945, the Soviets stopped advancing in Poland (they did move forward during that period in the Balkans). Supposedly they had to do so for logistical reasons. It was during that period that Hitler launched the offensive in the West that we call the Battle of the Bulge.
When Soviet troops first met up with American troops in Germany, they thought we were using their tanks. We had given the Soviets a huge number of Sherman tanks but the Red Army soldiers didn't realize they were made in the US, not in the USSR.