The comment kind of fails to see World War 2 in context apart from choosing 'winners' and 'losers'.
We should be thanking the Russian speaking soldiers who died on the East Front if you want to think of it like that. By the time the US started showing up with soldiers (rather than lend lease, equipment, naval and air help), the war was really about the Eastern front and the Germans and Italians were being pushed out of North Africa, the home islands had weathered the Blitz. In the Pacific it's a different story and the huge naval prescence the US had was started to have an effect much earlier.
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The comment kind of fails to see World War 2 in context apart from choosing 'winners' and 'losers'.
We should be thanking the Russian speaking soldiers who died on the East Front if you want to think of it like that. By the time the US started showing up with soldiers (rather than lend lease, equipment, naval and air help), the war was really about the Eastern front and the Germans and Italians were being pushed out of North Africa, the home islands had weathered the Blitz. In the Pacific it's a different story and the huge naval prescence the US had was started to have an effect much earlier.