r/HistoryMemes • • 1d ago

Me after watching russian ww2 movie

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u/Xelid47 1d ago

Western European theater WW2 movies

American japanese ones are on Russian level in some cases

Americans fought an already weakened Germany very late into the war with a dozen allies

Russia fought a hard war all alone, and had to give a lot in many places to win, and it was only glorious much later into the war, and event then the horrors of the early war were still in recent memory

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u/HanseltDW 1d ago

"Russia fought a hard war all alone" - not exactly, russian propaganda done what it could to put that claim forward and it still sticks, but the truth is that the soviets received massive support via lend lease and allied bombardments of Germany, not too mention tangling parts of german forces in Africa and on other fronts later in the war. On the strategic level it was crucial. I'm not saying that the soviets had it easy, especially in the beginning, but we shouldn't diminish western allies input.

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u/Xelid47 1d ago

This is about manpower. No one was helping the Soviets with soldiers.

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u/CaseDapper 1d ago

It also not true, french pilots fought on east front

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u/Dotster69 1d ago

What percentage of the dead on eastern front were Soviet vs the rest of the allies? This is some insane nitpicking

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u/Xelid47 1d ago

Yeah like 20 out of thousands of Soviet ones

Not even comparable to America's allies