Read here.
Britain and the US faced 10 German divisions. The Russians faced 200.
The Nazis lost 1 million on the western front, and 6 million on the eastern front.
The majority of western historians agree that it was the Soviet Union that turned the ride in the war.
Furthermore, Britain and France rejected attempts by the Soviet Union to form an anti-Nazi pact, in the years running up to the war. It seems an inescapable truth than many capitalists in the west were perfectly happy with Nazi rule in Germany - they were great for business, and a bulwark against communism, the ultimate threat to capitalism.
But following 70+ years of propaganda (just think of all the Hollywood war movies!), most westerners are evidently clueless about much of this.
It is such a travesty that history is continuously being falsified to manufacture consent for never-ending western imperialism.
And it is massively disrespectful to the 27 million Russians, (and the 10-15 million Chinese), who were killed, and to our parents/grandparents in the west who fought in alliance with them for a peaceful world.
Or so they thought...
I’m no historian, but it seems to me that WW2 ultimately united a bunch of empires into one, under American leadership. And that empire then went on to violently suppress people’s movements -and support fascism - all around the world, to advance capitalist interests; i.e. to continue that never-ending imperialism.
And all that suppression of socialism and support for fascism around the world has now come home to bite, as in the US and Europe, we now have overtly fascistic leaders like Trump and Farage on the rise again. And we have the normalized targeting and imprisonment of journalists (Julian Assange) - which was happening before those idiot fascists came along and made it all more obvious, under the leadership of 'liberal' leaders like Obama.
As Labour MP Ny Bevan said in 1945, "Europe must either go on to socialist reconstruction or back to the conditions which led to fascism. The Anglo-American armies are in the control of men who are opposed to socialism.”
And as Lenin said, "fascism is capitalism in decline".
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I'm keeping a list here of all the interesting and often illuminating articles that I've read about WW2 (and about Winston Churchill):
What Was the Turning Point of World War II?
Correcting WWII history: How the USA erased the USSR victory over Nazi Germany - with Peter Kuznick
What Russia Rightfully Remembers, America Forgets
The Real Winston Churchill
Hitler didn’t start indiscriminate bombings — Churchill did
The Churchill you didn't know
How Churchill Crushed Greece’s Anti-Fascist Resistance
What if 'Operation Unthinkable' Happened?
Stalin planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed
The Hitler-Stalin Pact, reconsidered
The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality
Eighty years on: The shame and tragedy of Munich
What Poland Has to Hide About the Origins of World War II
The Forgotten Soviet-Japanese War of 1939
The Soviet Invasion of Manchuria led to Japan’s Greatest Defeat
The Economy of Evil
Poland Joined Hitler in Dismembering Czechoslovakia
They don't teach you about the Nazi-Poland Pact
Behind the infant Queen’s gesture lies a dark history of aristocratic Nazi links
The CIA’s Worst-Kept Secret: Newly Declassified Files Confirm United States Collaboration with Nazis
Bank of England helped in sale of looted Nazi gold
Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection
How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S.
Who put up the Berlin Wall?
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