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by houndie » 17 May 2002, 22:38
The russians had the army of about 3 million men at the start of the war, i don't know, how many they had at the whole time of the war, but a meaningful example is 13 million troops killed. This was only one Front and they had this kind of manpower, plus at least two times more tanks than the gemans had (i think about 50 000 tanks against about 100 000, of course i'm not sure. searching the net i find almost nothing better than "fearless russians fighting in critical odds against them").
Here's a site, telling:
The main military events of the 1942-1943 winter campaign were the Stalingrad and the North Caucasian offensive operations, Leningrad blockade breach. The Red Army advanced 600-700 km to the West, defeated 100 enemy divisions - 40% of all Nazi forces on the Soviet-German front.
Of course it was only soviet-german front, but how many divisions did they have against the americans and the british? I don't think it totalled 100 divisions.
The russians were already winning. Then the americans found it would be best for them to also attack (ok, some will say "they needed it because of blablabla and them not doing Normandy would've been really bad for the Allies and they wouldn't have won", but that's bullshit). Normandy was meaningless. The only thing the americans helped by attacking were the Germans in Berlin, who didn't get the russian revenge - who were at Western Berlin. The russians raped almost 300 000 women the 3 days they had free will to do everything in Berlin. They hadn't got the chance to do the same in the American side of Berlin. When hitler killed himself, his heir (what'd be a better word?), instead of organizing the defence, had people massively transported to the americans, to escape the russian vengeance.
But where am i going! Russians were the main enemies, although there weren't just russians. There also were estonians(grrrr), latvians (gr), lithuanians (these fagets liked it). You should use these two words - Soviet Union.
of course Americans were good... ok, just joking.
Americans weren't, in general, good fighters. That was the average german opinion (i am not, again 100% sure, but i am also saying average, don't start pulling out newspaper articles, where the germans say some americans were really good fighters). They were the same to them as the Italians, who were, frankly, pretty weak in war.
The final sentence: what proof does anyone, who put America, have of america being crucial in winning the war?
War is a matter of vital importance to the state. Hence, it is imperative that it be studied thoroughly - sun tzu
The truth of world war should be documented and it should not be treated as nazi propaganda.
