PugJesusIndia was a champion of the Free World, we respect India's WW2 struggle in this house
imetatorsUS taking credit in WWII is only happening in US. In EU we consider USSR being the one that took the most hit and the one that eventually made a final push to win that war.
We do? Guess my history lessons didn’t cover this. I thought we were all equal, apart from the US only joining during the last half
And where are you from in the EU? Cause that’s not how it’s taught at all. The USSR helped start the war and without the lend lease program, from the uk/us, would have probably been taken over by the nazis.
Boomer Humor DoomergodIf you learn history by watching American movies then I can see people believing we won it.
But in school I was taught the old adage: American steel, British intelligence, and Russian blood won the war.
GalactoseCorrection: American Steal
Ding Ding Ding… America only joined the actual war effort after France had fallen and the UK could not continue to buy stuff them them.
Yeah, because nothing else happened that could have caused it. Especially in Hawaii
Russian blood
Fun fact: the USSR endured a death toll equivalent to seven Pearl Harbors … every day for four years.
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The Fallen of World War II
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grrgyleSimilarly, I feel like Canada’s contribution is overblown, but that’s probably because I’m in Canada.
Your per capita contribution was enormous - just like it was in WWI.
Some fun facts: during WWII, one of the biggest contributions the US made to the USSR war effort was food (as well as trucks to transport it). More specifically meat, since one of the side effects of Stalin’s assault on the “kulaks” (or wealthy peasants) was the annihilation of something like 80-90% of the Soviet Union’s livestock. And even more specifically SPAM, which Russians often referred to as “second front” - a dig on the fact that they were getting canned meat instead of an invasion of Europe by the Western Allies.
OwlThen sadly instituted dictatorships in a lot of countries…
Is this comment still about the US?
Both.
SkunkWorkzEU is not a monolith. It really depends on where you grew up. Here in the Netherlands we learn mostly about the Canadians, British and Polish forces and Americans troops. Since those were the units that liberated the country.