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Re:Soviets say Allied version of D-Day is a 'distortion' of ... by whack on Thursday June 06, 2019 @06:42AM (#20113221)
For most of my life, I believed that British resistance, D-Day, and the Western front were the primary reasons for German defeat. That's certainly how it appeared to a lay person. It was only recently that I realised the vital role the Eastern front played in Nazi defeat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_W...

The Nazis lost over two million soldiers in the Eastern front, whereas all the other fronts combined produced a loss of ~800k soldiers. The turning point of the war came in Stalingrad, an entire year before D-Day even started.

The Soviet Union has been a brutal regime and I'm glad they lost the cold war. But the Russian people deserve more credit than they are being given for turning back the Nazi tide.

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Re:Soviets say Allied version of D-Day is a 'distortion' of ... by 6d6b73 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:15AM (#20113366)
They were on Nazi side at the beginning of the war, so really they were trying to stop the Nazi tide that they helped to create.
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Re:Soviets say Allied version of D-Day is a 'distortion' of ... by flohofwoe on Thursday June 06, 2019 @08:56AM (#20114065)
Everybody downvoting this should read up on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac..., especially the secret protocol to divide Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union.
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Re:Soviets say Allied version of D-Day is a 'distortion' of ... by futureastronaut on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:49AM (#20115058)
Isn't this common historical knowledge? Sad if not.
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Re:Soviets say Allied version of D-Day is a 'distortion' of ... by whack on Thursday June 06, 2019 @09:15AM (#20114223)
I'm certainly no Soviet admirer or apologist as my last paragraph made clear. However, it seems a stretch to say that they helped create the Nazi tide. The Germans had such little respect for Soviet resistance, that they expected it to collapse like a house of cards within a few months. Hitler would have started the war, with or without the non-aggression pact.
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