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Originally Posted by Kaiser

You in vain think that it is not undervalued.
Financial assistance from the West USSR has a great appreciation.
We store this memory.

But it would be better if the allies fulfilled their promise at the set time ... During the visit of the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov to London and Washington allies have promised a few months later disembark at continental Europe. But they have not made this neither in 1942 nor in 1943, when we were carrying particularly heavy losses. From May 1942 to June 1944, while the Allies been putting off the opening of the second front in the fierce battles left more than 5.5 million Soviet troops.
And other important nuance. If for us a problem of a second front was a matter of life and deaths of millions of Soviet people, for the Allies it was an issue strategy: where appropriate to disembark? They had landed in Europe, hoping determine the advantageous post-war map of the world. The more so was already obvious that the Red Army independently able end this war and get out on the coast of the English Channel, providing the USSR for the winner leading role in the postwar reconstruction of of Europe. What the Allies could not allow.

As for supplies lend-lease, we must understand if Hitler took possession resources of the USSR, the next on turn would be Britain. Churchill as a wise politician could not allow of this.
And after all if to look at the history of impartially, all countries of the world then, except Germany and its allies, looked at the Soviet peoples with hope. June 22, 1941, Winston Churchill stated that although he and anti-communist, but the security of Great Britain and the U.S. is now entirely in the hands of Russia. June 24 a similar speech said, and the American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Newspaper Times, mouthpiece of financier-oligarchical elites of the West, has also stated that the fate of humanity is decided on the Eastern Front. Today reminisce then in effect, the whole world behind the scenes reached for our country as a magic wand, few want. Therefore through myths and falsifications of role of the USSR in war every way lowered.

All true except that the Allies were not in a position to launch a successfuil invasion before June '44. Even then it was not an "easy victory". I expect Stalin would have liked them to try and destroy themselves on the beaches while drawing German forces away from the East and leaving Europe open to him although its not certain he would have succeeded without the Allies strategic devastation of the German war machine and logistics capability. I believe Stalin had no Strategic air capability of his own. In any case my own belief is that Hitler could never win a war against the Soviet Union. The Allies were well aware of Stalin's appetite for the rest of Europe and History shows that he was as bad as Hitler in many ways. Even so, the Allies had to watch Poland (the reason the West went to war) and other countries slip from one oppressive dictator to another. But its true, the Soviets suffered huge casualties on the Eastern Front. The Eastern Front was the WWII killing ground that mirrored the Western Front killing ground in WWI, only more so.