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You underestimate the courage and tenacity of the Russian people. Read Harrison Salisbury’s book, The 900 Days, about the seige of Leningrad. Or read about the Battle of Kursk.

The Soviets inflicted 76% of all the German military deaths during WWII. Yes, we provided significant amounts of war materiel and logistical assistance, but the Soviets deserve the lion’s share of the credit for defeating the Nazis. Revisionist history doesn’t change the facts.

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kabar: [You underestimate the courage and tenacity of the Russian people. Read Harrison Salisbury’s book, The 900 Days, about the seige of Leningrad. Or read about the Battle of Kursk.

That wasn’t courage. It was desperation - the knowledge that the Germans intended to kill every last one of them, and repopulate Russia’s lands with pur sang Aryans of verifiable German bloodlines. The Russians could risk death by fighting or guarantee their own deaths by surrendering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_annihilation#Nazi_warfare

Whether the motivation, the Russians supplied the German war effort against the West until Germany attacked them. Russia was the one Axis power that switched sides and ended up a victor.

And, as Stalin and Khrushchev established, Russia would have lost without massive Western aid. Given that Russia received the equivalent of $3T from the US, relative to today’s US economy, it’s clear that Ukraine has received a pittance and very little equipment (0 planes and two dozen tanks) compared to the 14,000 planes and 13,000 tanks the US supplied to Russia in WW2.

Note that Ukrainians were equally engaged in this literal war of survival - it lost 16% of its population vs Russia’s 13%. The idea that Ukrainians lack fighting spirit is nonsense. In the postwar era, hundreds of thousands lost their lives in a doomed revolt against their Russian overlords with no Western material support.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army#Spring_1945%E2%80%93late_1946