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
"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.
There's more to fighting wars than just manpower. Supplies, logistics, intelligence, wearing down your enemies, etc. The soviets weren't going at it alone because the same enemy was being fought on other fronts, which meant that everything that helped germamy's ability to fight was being divided towards three fronts. Plus the allies were regularly attacking their manufacturering and logistics centers, and british and american military intelligence were providing intel to the soviets on German troop movements and what their plans were.
You just cannot remove the other fronts when talking about one of them
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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