>The Eastern Front is where most of the fighting in WWII happened. It's where the European theater of war was truly won or lost. I remember being very surprise

>The Eastern Front is where most of the fighting in WWII happened. It's where the European theater of war was truly won or lost. I remember being very surprised when I heard for the first time that something like 80% of all casualties taken by the Germans happened on the Eastern front. Or the total sizes of the armies (collectively on both sides) fighting one another and the large margin by which the Western front was dwarfed by. It stood completely at ends with everything I learned about WW2 growing up in the US, through school, pop culture, friends, family of friends. I suppose it's not too surprising though that any country emphasizes their own involvement over that of others- for example I doubt that the Soviets touched much on the extent of lend lease in their education or war movies.