Don't think for a second that the U.S.S.R. (which was more than Russia) fought the Nazis to free the Jews. Before Hitler stabbed Stalin right in the back Stalin's regime had zero qualms about turning Jews over to the tender care of the Nazis.
The fact that the Soviets freed concentration camp victims as they came across the camps afterwards is admirable, but that wasn't why the Soviets were fighting, just as the U.S. wasn't fighting just to save the Jews.
Re:The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan
by sliverstorm on Monday June 03, 2013 @04:05PM
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over ten million Russian soldiers sacrificing their lives in the process.
Why should we applaud Stalin for the sacrifices of his men?
In another context, ask any Palestinian what he thinks of the foreigners who invaded his home in the 1940s, and massacred his kin and are continuing to increase the bloody settlement of his land...