Travel Russia!: Who has won Second World War?

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

All Russians know that Russian people has won Germany in WWII with very little help of other countries. Site Pobediteli (Winners) - Soldiers of the Great War, was maden to explain why.

Unknown said...: I understand this Russian point of view.

However, Russians tend to forget about anything other than the Russian/German front.

There was, after all ... a war fought in the Pacific against the Japanese ... a war fought against the Germans in the Atlantic ... a war fought in Northern Africa ... and invasions of Italy and France.

It wasn't the Russian-German War. It was the Second World War.

This isn't to take anything away from Russia's own battles and victories. But geographically it was a small part of the overall war.

I've seen that Pobediteli website before - the one thing I would say against it is - it makes it sound like Russian was achieving great victories the entire war. Russia had a tremendous number of casualties - those didn't happen in military victories or as a result of great military planning. Many of those early battles were real catastrophes for Russia.

Anyway, I know this is a sensitive topic and I think you know me well enough to know that I am not saying this to offend.; 6:38 PM

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