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>people forget that it was the US who saved Europe from Nazi Germany Ironic that you ignored the outsized role Russia played in defeating Nazi Germany, in a th
by yucky 4y ago
>people forget that it was the US who saved Europe from Nazi Germany
Ironic that you ignored the outsized role Russia played in defeating Nazi Germany, in a thread about Russia. Most historians would argue that Russia played an even larger role than the US on that front.
- emptysongglass 4y agoExcept the USSR was instrumental to Nazi Germany's early success with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and material trade. If you arm and abet the enemy with oil refineries and raw materials well your outsized role in defeating the enemy you enabled is now much smaller.
- yucky 4y agoThen I suppose we really need to look at all of the Wall Street financing and industrial partnerships between the US and Nazi Germany too?
- emptysongglass 4y agoAs a playful exercise, it would be interesting to see how these two powers averaged in their net contributions to the war effort.