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Originally Posted by Gort
I have never once claimed the US won the war by itself, as you made reference to Americans doing in an earlier post. Yet you have the temerity to revise history. Russia wasn't out of the woods in 1941. Hell you didn't even counter attack the first time around Moscow until December 41 and January 42. The war didn't really change momentum until Stalingrad fell in 1943. I am not trying to take anything away from Soviet achievements, but you seem to think we simply sat on our hands and could have cared less which side won in the east. Frankly that is revisionism. It is Russian nationalism, but it is not accurate. I understand there is no way I will convince you otherwise, so I will stop trying. If you don't care about the truth and instead prefer to only see what you believemakes your country a matyr that defeated the Germans single handedly so be it. Enjoy the fantasy.
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Once again I can not get rid of the feeling you answering on someone else's post, not mine... No one possesses the monopoly for truth, so don't expect everybody around you will accomodate to your absolute vision of the world and history, which are perfect and final as you believe, because they are yours. The phrases like "Russia wasn't out of the woods in 1941" overwhemingly characterize you. Don't you know, man, that we just have climbed down from the trees then? You must be told in the school. So, yeah, just as soon as Americans have replaced our bows and arrows with real weapons, we dared to come out of the woods for the first time))))
As for the "you seem to think we simply sat on our hands and could have cared less which side won in the east" - I don't think, because it's well known that the US had great interest in the game. First you supplied Nazis and approved their challenge to British Global Empire, (funny but grandfather of Bush had the finger in the pie), and when you saw the Germans got unexpectedly ably and quick in the deal and might have really take the prize to themselves, you started to supply the other side. Good startegy, everybody lost besides you; jackpot, British legacy has become yours.