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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by kridsdale1 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @07:04PM (#42544845)
Sure, the parts Stalin didn’t win.
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by sanderjd on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:26PM (#42545448)
FDR, Stalin, and Churchill all won that war. History is super messy!
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by gschizas on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:47AM (#42547954)
So did Hitler. I mean, he did end up killing Hitler, that's gotta count for something!
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by brailsafe on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:35PM (#42552142)
Team America to the rescue! But it does seem like without FDR it would have been won for the allies anyway.
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by sanderjd on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:28AM (#42558575)
I think this kind of counterfactual is pretty impossible to do.

Do you mean that it would have been won without any US involvement? Or do you mean the US involvement would have proceeded similarly with a different president?

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by brailsafe on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @04:16PM (#42561886)
From my cursory sense of things it seems like both are probably true. The U.S with FDR obviously contributed to it ending when it did, but so did other countries who were there earlier and sacrificed more. The U.S seems like more of a winner in the sense that they sacrificed relatively little while getting the most out of it, but I don't know if that's a good use of the term "won" in the context of a world war.
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by cenamus on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:27AM (#42547312)
*yet
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by rmbyrro on Monday December 30, 2024 @03:51AM (#42547670)
> Stalin didn’t win

...even backed by crucial US supplies

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by fl7305 on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:08AM (#42548029)
Historical note: Stalin and Hitler agreed to start WW2 by invading Poland in September 1939.

So Stalin may have played a part in ending WW2, but don't forget his part in starting it.