Comments by "" (@Cloud_Seeker) on "Did the Soviet Union win WW2 alone?" video.

  1. Okay. Before watching this video I will say that the Soviets turned the war around before lend-lease really started to take a big effect. However I have never said that they won alone. After all. The UK refused to give in making the invasion of Russia a two-front war. That is not "alone" in any way. I do think americans are kind of blowing themselves up and trying to make themselves more important then they are. The Germans are more then able to lose a war without the US involvement.
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  2. Not really. It has a point, but it is about as accurate as the idea that it was the US that saved the world and saved the Soviet Union because they provided lend-lease. As TIK has said before. We typically find that the war started to change by the end of 1942. When Germany had reach the end of its logistical reach, where it the Battle of Stalingrad was taking place, the battle for Moscow was taking place and so on. It was during the winter the Germany lost and was being pushed back. During this time the US didn't provide that much in lend-lease. The UK gave more lend-lease than the US did during the end of 1942. Lend-lease sure as hell helped a lot, but it didn't win the war. It helped lower the casualties and allowed the Red Army to pressure the German forced until they reached Berlin. I do believe that if you are going to say that one nation defeated the German army on their own, it is most likely something the Soviet Union can say. However it is just as wrong as saying that the Soviets were alone. They were not. The UK was still in the fight and they still refused to give in. While the Germans invaded the USSR in 1941, the UK was bombing German territory trying to disrupt as much as possible. The western front was a technological war that required fuel, aircrafts skilled engineers, AA guns and scientists that might have been able to be used in the eastern front. If the UK should have stayed out of the fight, only a minimal force should have been left in the west, which means the USSR may have lost due to the fact Germany should have had more resources, more man power and a single focus of attack. I do believe that if you are going to say that one nation defeated the German army on their own, it is most likely something the Soviet Union can say for the fact it was mostly through their efforts the war was turn around and started going downhill. However as I said before. They literally were not alone through the fact the UK was literally in the fight the whole time. The UK forced the Germans to divide their forces as they were not able to defeat the UK.
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