Comments by "jacq danieles" (@jacqdanieles) on "Russia Had a Sad Military Parade" video.
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"Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
From: 'We Would Have Lost': Did U.S. Lend-Lease Aid Tip The Balance In Soviet Fight Against Nazi Germany? - Rferl
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 @LeonAllanDavis while you ponder on my previous reply, here are some fact checks:
"The US claims all the credit ..." -- that's news to me. On the contrary, the Russians claim they defeated Germany & as evidence cite their casualty numbers, all the while ignoring or minimizing the support of the Allies -- from Lend-Lease to the Normandy landings that opened up a 2nd front.
"The Russians lost maybe 25% of their people" ... no, the figure is 12.7% -- literally half of what you claim
"The Russians lost upwards of 27 million ..." -- er, no, that's the SOVIET UNION. You are falling for the current Kremlin revisionist narrative that it was solely Russia that fought, bled, & died -- when it was the members of the Soviet Union -- that includes Ukrainians & Belarusians who suffered the highest casualties as a percentage of their populations -- Russia ranks 6th on that list:
Deaths as % of 1940 Population
Belorussian SSR: 25.3%
Ukrainian SSR: 16.3%
Latvian SSR: 13.7%
Armenian SSR: 13.6%
Lithuanian SSR: 12.7%
Russian SFSR: 12.7%
"Baerbock: ...at war with Russia" -- interesting that you'd bring up something that is clearly being twisted by Russian propaganda. Her wording was bad, no doubt, but the context was that she was saying that infighting within EU must stop in order to concentrate on the Russia-Ukraine war. The German Government & Chancellor further clarified her remarks & reiterated that neither Germany nor NATO are parties to the conflict. Source: "Germany says it is not a warring party in Ukraine" - DW
"Azov": yes, neo nazis formed Azov as a result of the weak Ukrainian military & its inability to defend the country from Russian-backed separatists in 2014. They are no longer a "neo nazi unit" -- though undoubtedly some neo nazis are still within its ranks, as I'm sure there are some covert elements of neo-Nazis among all European, American, & Russian forces. To focus on this 1 unit & label the entire country as nazis, is once again Kremlin propaganda.
Sources:
"Much Azov about nothing: How the âUkrainian neo-Nazisâ canard fooled the world"
-Alasdair McCallum, Monash University
&
"What is Azov Regiment? Honest answers to the most common questions"
- Vyacheslav Likhachev, Euromaidan Press Â
Finally, "For Russians the trauma ... memories are raw ..." -- curiously, the memories of the Soviet contributions to starting WW2 -- in particular, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact & Stalin's alliance with Germany to invade & carve up Poland; as well as Soviet annexation of the Baltic States, & Soviet invasion of Finland -- seem to have suffered from severe bouts of amnesia.
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I'd like to add:
"Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."
Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.
"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."
From: 'We Would Have Lost': Did U.S. Lend-Lease Aid Tip The Balance In Soviet Fight Against Nazi Germany? - Rferl
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