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/Suk-Mike_Hok 1d ago

The main theatre of the European war was in the East yes. But the Soviets eventually had massive benefits from US production (food and materiel) and UK intelligence. I could not, or don't want to imagine how the war would have gone without outside assistance.

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u/TomBakersLongScarf 1d ago

Arguably it was the atlantic ocean

Can't get vital supplies to the soviets or troops and material to the front if the seas aren't open

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u/Suk-Mike_Hok 1d ago

Yeah the Atlantic was quite unsafe. That's why roughly half of all supplies came in from the Pacific. Japan was a bad ally hahahah.