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Phlogiston, sorry but u are talking crap, expecially when you say: "the Soviets were getting crushed until American entry into the war gave them actual weapons to fight with"... this is so wrong is not even funny.




Sorry, but the Soviets were getting beaten by the wehrmacht until American war materials arrived en masse. The Soviets didn't have the industrial capacity to arm all of its soldiers. During Stalingrad, the USSR could only issue a rifle to every third soldier, with the remaining two being issued a stripper clip of ammunition to feed into the crusty Mosin-Nagant rifle dropped by the armed soldier should he be killed.

Of course you fail to acknowledge the Moltov-Ribbentrop pact, which was a collaboration between both the USSR and Nazi Germany to conquer Eastern Europe. Courtesy of SparkNotes, since I am "talking crap":

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...in addition to agreeing not to attack each other, Germany and the USSR had also agreed to overrun the countries that lay between them. Specifically, they agreed that Germany and the USSR would each take over one half of Poland, with a further provision that the USSR would take over Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia without German interference.




Just for fun, let's recall the Marshall Plan, which allowed Euope to be rebuilt from ruins and subsequently spoiled the supermajority of Europeans to become a bunch of worthless crybabies incapable of engaging in any useful activity of any sort. The Soviets, which Europeans seem to have such a fetish for, helped you in no way.