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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.
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In 1942 and 1943 the Western Allies inflicted quite a number of casualties on the German and Italian Armies as well as diverting after November of 1942, the majority of the Luftwaffe. They captured over 250,000 men in Tunisia, and invaded Sicily and Italy, driving Italy out of the war, and forcing the Germans to send large numbers of troops to Italy to maintain their lines there. At the height of the Kursk battle, the Germans were forced to send their elite 1st and 2nd SS Panzer divisions, plus quite a number of other Panzer and Panzergrenadier divisions to Italy from the East Front. So to say the fact that the Western Allies did not invade France in 1943 was a failure on their part is not completely accurate.
There is no question the Soviets did the majority of the fighting on the ground on the European Front in WWII, no one can deny their contributions and suffering. At no time was less than 50% of the Wehrmacht deployed on the East Front, much of the time the figure was closer to 65%.
Still the facts are WWII was won by an alliance of countries fighting against Germany, Italy and Japan. The Japanese were beaten by the Americans and British fighting on their own, the Soviet declaration of war in 1945 had almost no effect on the outcome in the Pacific and was more a political decision by Stalin to allow him to occupy parts of Manchuria and Korea for resource rather than for noble reasons.
The Soviets would have had much more difficulty in succeeding had they not had the assistance of American and British Lendlease in the form of supplies and war materials. Fuel supplied, or things such as locomotive engines are sometimes overlooked when the overall contributions are accounted for.