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Old 06-23-2017, 09:37 AM
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Arrow Defeat of germany in world war ii was possible without u.s. Help, russians say

DEFEAT OF GERMANY IN WORLD WAR II WAS POSSIBLE WITHOUT U.S. HELP, RUSSIANS SAY
BY DAMIEN SHARKOV ON 6/23/17 AT 12:04 PM
RE: http://www.newsweek.com/defeat-germa...8580?piano_t=1

Most Russians believe the Soviet military would have been able to win World War II without the efforts of the U.S. or its allies, a new poll finds. (Personal Note: Yea Right - we supplied them with arms - food and other supplies throughout the war and after).

The Soviet Union suffered the most casualties in the conflict, and the issue is highly emotional for many Russians. Victory Day—the Soviet-style celebration of the end of WWII—is one of Russia’s most popular holidays, behind only New Year’s Eve.

Evidence of Soviet supremacy in forcing the Nazis into retreat on the eastern front was widely taught in Russian schools in communist times, and most Russians still seem to hold on to that mentality.

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Is war in Russia imminent? Most Russians don’t think so?

Two-thirds of Russians (63 percent) felt the Soviet Red Army would have overwhelmed Germany’s storm-troopers irrespective of the actions of the U.S., the U.K., France and their allies, a survey by Russia’s largest independent pollster, the Levada Center, reports.

The survey started in 1991, and majority opinion in Russia has never indicated Moscow needed Western allies to stop Adolf Hitler’s advance. Since Soviet times, attitudes in Russia toward the allied contribution to the war effort have been tinged with negativity, in part due to the U.S. and U.K.’s two-year delay in deploying a much-awaited second front in France, while Nazi troops were marching deep into Russia’s south and west.

The reason for the huge casualties sustained by Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other former Soviet republics whose territory stood in the way of the Nazi push east is a topic of historical debate. Historians disagree about the exact casualty count, though the U.S. Eisenhower Center cites Soviet casualties as high as 11 million troops and between 7 million and 20 million civilians.

The ruthlessness of Soviet generalissimo Joseph Stalin and failings inside Soviet military command are sometimes given as reasons for the numerous deaths. Only 12 percent of Russians blamed Stalin’s disregard for his own people for the many war deaths—a record low since 1997, when over a third of Russians blamed the mustachioed Georgian.

Stalin’s ambition to reach Berlin before the allies pressing from the West could do so ended with the Soviet flag flying above the Reichstag. However, that charge alone allegedly cost the Red Army 70,000 lives.

Only 10 percent blamed the weakness of Soviet command for the huge discrepancy between its own casualties and Germany’s. The same number claimed the Nazis were simply more barbaric in warfare. German forces employed particularly merciless death squad units known as Einsatzgruppen on the eastern front, carrying out mass assassinations and acts of ethnic cleansing across the populations caught in the crossfire.

Combined, a majority of Russians blamed the high casualties on Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in a surprise attack after it had signed a nonaggression pact (36 percent) or on Germany’s technological superiority (24 percent).
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