Quoting: isthatu
What exactly do you mean by the soviet union did more damage to its people than the germans?
Anyone not running forward was SHOT.
By there own leaders. ( Thousands died ) Quote, Not one step back.. Unquote.
Quoting: tornado2007
everybody knows that without the weather the Soviet Union
I'd like to point out here.
That the russians withdrew.
They KNEW the weather would turn. and they were better equipped to deal with it.
And more used to it.
Than the germans. who were ordered to attack.. Without provision for extreme weather.
Thus they froze to death ( It gets to -30 In parts of russia. )
Quoting: isthatu
UK and USA had copiously suppled with war materiel which still only accounted for a small fraction of soviet materiel
Would this be why the russians force marched there own men into stalingrad.
With 1 rifle and 1 ammo clip between two men.
( The first man shoots. when he dies. The second man picks up his weapon. loads it and shoots. )
Yes we supplied them. Bc they were allies against the fascist war machine.
Russia had only one thing on its mind when its armies finally approached Berlin.
And they were NOT Going to wait for the Allies.
Stalin waited and watched while the germans died and used up rescourses trying to kill the polish. Then they calmly walked in and liberated them.
Conscripted the Polish army to help them drive out the Germans.
Then arrested and imprisoned the Polish army. And installed a puppet government sympathetic to him.
Stalin had allready carved up the states occupied by german forces. Before the war was over.
Churchil saw this happening. ( An iron curtain has been drawn across europe ) He said.
He classed the polish as allies. and was appalled at the treatment they recieved.
And wanted its lands returned as was..
Sadly he was replaced in an election before the summit meeting.
So he ws powerless to intervene