GREATEST mistake in 1945 was America letting the Russians take Berlin
Well big talker, sounds like you were never a grunt. The Russians lost 81,000 dead, and 281,000 wounded taking Berlin. That’s about 5 times our loss in the battle of Okinawa, or 5 times the battle of the Bulge. On day one of D-day we lost about 2,500 dead.
And big shots like to say how we should have strolled into Berlin where 80k Russians died. No thanks.
The Germans did not hold us in contempt or great fear as they did the Russians. They already had a history with Russia. Check out your history and you will find thousands surrendering to the Americans to avoid Russian capture. In fact, learn something from history besides “numbers” which you think, falsely, prove your point. Statistics have many qualifiers. Why don’t you mention the Cold War, for instance, or How many died trying to bridge the Berlin Wall? When you learn to use qualifiers reasonably,”big talker”, come back to me for some more lessons!
P.S. Without the USA and our Merchant Marine, the Russians would have starved to death and wouldn’t have had arms to fight with, clothes to wear, or Jeeps for their officers to fight over. Without our entrance in the war with the Invasion of North Africa(Operation Torch) there wouldn’t have been a Second Front which bled the Germans and cost them dearly. Rommel knew the war was lost after the loss of Sicily and Italy. Too bad we didn’t listen more to General Patton.
Germans would have gladly surrendered if the Yanks went into Berlin.
The Germans heard all of the stories about the Red Army raping women. Many women committed suicide rather than be taken by the Russians. That’s why the Germans fought so fiercely in Berlin even though they knew it was a lost cause.