07-06-14, 09:57 PM
(07-06-14, 08:47 PM)nick crisp link Wrote: [quote author=Slaninar link=topic=13477.msg152181#msg152181 date=1402150108]
http://emsnews.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/...acrifices/
Without the Russians, I would say there is definitely some doubt as to whether Hitler would have been defeated - his own stupidity for choosing to fight a war on two fronts, and not learning the lessons of the past, especially regarding the Russian winter. Brave soldiers they were, and deserve our thanks too.
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Absolutely nick - given the Russians lost 1.1 million men in the battle of sebastopol (more than the UK and US lost in the entire war), if you think about the resources the nazis needed to counter /create these losses, and what it cost them, I think the result on the western front might have been very different.
Ww2 is still very fresh in the minds of the Russians - I flew aeroflot a few times about 6 years ago, with stopovers on Moscow. Every magazine in English that I saw - 3 I think - and some Russian ones, all had articles about the defeat of the nazis. It still hurts with them, and no wonder.