peashooter85:

bantarleton:

daddywarbats:

bantarleton:

turkey-in-the-garage:

qsy-complains-a-lot:

bantarleton:

> “we lost 400,000 men fighting the Nazis!”

> Looks at Russia’s 13,000,000 military casualties and 7,000,000 civilian deaths.

Americans are usually in the right when they say Britain couldn’t have survived without the USA’s aid, but people ignoring Russia in WW2 gets my goat.

More than any other nation, Russian won the Second World War. 

Also “Germany suwendered because they were scawered of might murica” is a load of bullshit, they signed the armistice because the war was completely unsustainable for them. Their economy was in shambles, the escort system defeated their attempts at strangling British food import faster than Great Britain was strangling theirs, they were actively carrying at arm’s length everyone of their allies, they had no way to keep up with armored vehicle technological advances, the public opinion was against them, and more importantly none of the Entente power had to deal with any of these problems in comparison :v

America took six months to contribute any men to the fight, fought for a year out of five, didn’t participate in any of the meat grinders of the war. So America can shut the fuck up for once.

The Soviets lost a ton of people because they did shit like assign one rifle to two infantrymen. I don’t mean to minimize their contribution to the war effort, but their contribution to victory shouldn’t be measured by number of casualties alone.

The one-rifle-to-two-men idea is a myth I’m afraid. But yes, heavy casualties doesn’t necessarily equate to being the main war contributor, but that seemed to be the point the original commentator was making. 

You know what other country’s involvement people always forget, despite them having the third largest navy in the world immediately post war and having been actively involved since 1939?

Canada.

Go look it up, I dare you.

For better or worse, Canada is usually lumped with British Imperial forces including the likes of Oz, South Africa, NZ and India. 

China bro. Millions of Chinese fought and died against up to 1.2 million Japanese troops.  They were fighting World War II years before World War II even started. The result was up to 25 million Chinese dead and 4 million Japanese. The contribution they made to the war is enormous yet they are hardly mentioned in history books or internet conversations such as these.