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>they desperately needed US equipment/supplies to even do that US material aid helped a ton but the push to inflate it's importance to the end result of the wa
by modo_mario 5y ago
>they desperately needed US equipment/supplies to even do that
US material aid helped a ton but the push to inflate it's importance to the end result of the war seems never ending.
Only less than 15% of lend lease supplies had arrived a year after the last axis attempt at and advance on the eastern front. The vast majority whilst incredibly helpful arrived when the axis was already rapidly retreating.
I agree that they were incredibly brutal and rapey tho. How much of that was revenge/progression of the horrors of the eastern front idk.
I'm inclined to say it was a fragment of the time but there was a ton of rape by them in the Chechnyan and Georgian conflicts as well.
- jacobolus 5y agohttps://voxeu.org/article/how-war-was-won https://voxeu.org/article/how-war-was-won
- TulliusCicero 5y agoI wasn't talking about importance as much as competence. Russia took massive losses to beat down the Germans on the eastern front. They won, but they ended up losing some 25 million people. Given that they were fighting on their home turf vs a smaller population invader, that doesn't make it sound like they were terribly effective other than drowning the Germans in bodies.
- TulliusCicero 5y agoThat's the Russian apologist defense yeah, "it was revenge", never mind that they conducted mass rapes among Polish women and girls as well.