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You obviously have no idea how bloody the fighting between Germany and Russia was. While US made critical contribution in WW2, it was Russian blood that sucked

• flavor8 10y ago
  > ... it was Russian blood that sucked German army white. Interestingly, the Russian invasion of Manchuria (i.e. their entry into the Pacific theater) also played a much more significant role in Japan's surrender than most of us were taught in history class. The US had been firebombing Japanese cities for months, so the atom bombs, while devastating, were not an order of magnitude escalation, whereas the Russian invasion certainly was.