• axx@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    The post you’re replying doesn’t claim the Allies killed more, less or whatever than the USSR. It’s about the importance of holding territory vs. killing. Did you just jump into this because you wanted to point out the outsized effort the USSR made in defeating the Nazis?

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      1 month ago

      What territory? The Allies were only able to swoop in and capture the West of Europe because the Nazis threw everything at the Soviets and lost.

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        1 month ago

        And that only happened because the US provided basically everything to the Soviets under Lend-Lease.

        Without American equipment, the Soviets were getting absolutely slaughtered.

        Their infrastructure was collapsed, they were out of equipment and couldn’t produce more. The US provided tanks, guns, bullets, clothes, food, and even railway to them to keep them afloat and hold off the Nazis while they fought the Western Front.

        Without Lend-Lease, the Soviets stood exactly zero chance.

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          1 month ago

          Lend Lease supplied 10% of the Soviets supplies tops. This is such gigantic hypercope.

          Nobody says it did not help, but you are exaggerating the role of the US into infinity.

          Exactly like how the US propaganda tried to rewrite history after the fact.

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            1 month ago

            Stalin and Kruschev both openly stated that without the US lend lease, the Soviets would have lost.

            That’s not cope. That’s the Soviets themselves.