In a nutshell? Partially “no, Rudy, you’re wrong, and so is the show”, and partially “only if you choose to view US and Allied actions in the most unfavorable and uncharitable way humanly possible”.
Frame 1: The Soviet Union did take twenty-odd times the casualties the US and Britain did in the fight against Germany. That’s what sort of happens in a war where a) the two opponents share a 1,500 mile land border and b) neither side signed the Geneva Conventions. It also forgets that Hitler and Stalin were allies from August 23, 1939 until June 22, 1941.
We also likely prevented the Soviet war effort from collapsing by supplying the Soviets with critical war material such as: a) 100 octane aviation fuel; b) thousands of trucks, and hundreds of locomotives, freight cars, and rails; c) waterproof telephone wire and communications equipment; and d) half a pound of food per Soviet soldier for every day of the war. We’ll also recall the combined US/UK bombing campaign which destroyed Nazi war factories and materiel, drew two million troops from the East to the West, drew most Nazi fighter aircraft from the East to the West, and diverted most Nazi optical equipment from anti-tank to anti-aircraft use.
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In a nutshell? Partially “no, Rudy, you’re wrong, and so is the show”, and partially “only if you choose to view US and Allied actions in the most unfavorable and uncharitable way humanly possible”.
Frame 1: The Soviet Union did take twenty-odd times the casualties the US and Britain did in the fight against Germany. That’s what sort of happens in a war where a) the two opponents share a 1,500 mile land border and b) neither side signed the Geneva Conventions. It also forgets that Hitler and Stalin were allies from August 23, 1939 until June 22, 1941.
We also likely prevented the Soviet war effort from collapsing by supplying the Soviets with critical war material such as: a) 100 octane aviation fuel; b) thousands of trucks, and hundreds of locomotives, freight cars, and rails; c) waterproof telephone wire and communications equipment; and d) half a pound of food per Soviet soldier for every day of the war. We’ll also recall the combined US/UK bombing campaign which destroyed Nazi war factories and materiel, drew two million troops from the East to the West, drew most Nazi fighter aircraft from the East to the West, and diverted most Nazi optical equipment from anti-tank to anti-aircraft use.
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