America: Saving us from the Nazis
Captain Sasha May 14th, 2011
If I got a dollar everytime an American told me how they saved my ass from the Nazis, I’d have made enough to buy off McDonalds and convert it to a chain of bliny outlets. I wonder what Americans are going to come up with next, perhaps they invented vodka and designed the Eiffel Tower as well? Before I hear this silly chant again from a YAAI (Yet Another American Idiot), I might clear this up once and for all.
Soviet victory flag on the Reichstag building. Do you see any stars and stripes around?
Contrary to what a lot of Americans seem to believe, the Allied victory in European theater didn’t begin with the Normandy landings (or D-Day, as the Americans call it). If Americans could overlook their grandoise self-serving claims for a while and look at the cold hard facts, the D-Day had a rather minor significance or impact to the outcome of the World War 2. By June 1944, the World War 2 in Europe was wrapping up. 93% of the Nazi forces have already been wiped out or labouring away in Soviet prison camps. The ‘Uruk Hai’ of the Nazi war machine - the SS Waffen and SS Wehrmarcht were no longer around. What Americans experienced in D-Day and afters was a breeze compared to the storm that transpired just a few months back. [BBC News: Who Won World War 2?]
The biggest and most decisive battles in World War 2 were the Battle of Kursk and Stalingrad. It was in these two battle zones that Hitler met his most overwhelming defeats and the utter failure of his most ambitious plan, the Operation Barbarossa. This defeat saw not only the largest military surrender in human history but also a mass attrition of Wehrmarcht troops, along with their tanks and planes. Before Hitler realised what hit him, Germans were in a crisis situation, trying to stop the advance of the Soviet troops into Nazi territory. [Historynet.com: Battle of Kursk]. Eventually, it was the Red Army who stormed the Reichstag, after winning what was known as the most fierce urban battle in human history - the Battle of Berlin. In this decisive battle, the Germans surrendered the city to General Vasily Chuikov of the Red Army - not to some Smith, Hank or Brenda.
But of course, given that the average American gets all his/her ‘education’ from TV shows and films like Saving Private Ryan, he doesn’t know anything about that. He thinks it was troops led by John Bon Jovi and Tom Hanks that saved the world. For Americans, this is more convenient and inspires more self-important pride than the (gasp!) idea that those dastardly Russkies could have anything to do with winning the World War 2. I actually had a bewildered (patriotic) American ask me, “So what DID Russians DO in World War 2?”. The guy later proclaimed that it was Russians who got defeated by Americans in World War 2. Which is not surprising, considering that the average American thinks Communism and Nazism are interchangeable terms.
All in all, no country can lay stake to the claim that they won the World War 2 singlehanded, since it was a joint effort by all of us - Russians, British, Greeks, Chinese and yes, Americans. I have utmost respect for all those who fought against fascism in the World War 2 and all those who supported them through those hard times. If you have any respect for those people, please get a decent book (or DVD) on World War 2 history and don’t insult everyone by being so loud and boastful with your ignorance.
And please, no calling the French ’surrender monkeys’ either. If you faced half of what they did in the World Wars, you’d be peeing your pants and run screaming to the nearest McDonalds outlet for cover. Playing soldier in Call of Duty doesn’t make you a brave military hero.
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yoo hoo sasha its street. i happened upon another of your stupid posts where youre runnin ya piss licker about us again. evidently youve been in the vodka bottle way too much. i wondered about you sasha. how could a person have such a hatred for another nation and its people. now sasha or alexandr what ever your damn name is i know why. and now its understandable. somewhere around 200,000 +- of your women leave the “motherland” every year for the US to find a decent and suitable husband. one that can stay sober long enough to feed his family. ya know what else????? im married to one of them myself. you have too many of your own problems boy to be worried about what goes on over here in the free world. you just keep nursin that vodka bottle till ya pickle ya liver and let the americans who are sober, capable and have the know how to handle the big stuff. you just worry about gettin them potatos in on time for the next batch of vodka.
Thank you for getting a devitsiya off the streets. She wouldn’t have found a Russian husband anyway, considering there are only 85 men for every 100 women in the motherland and polygamy isn’t legal…yet.
By the way, picking a Russian mail order bride over an American woman speaks a lot about the quality of American women, doesn’t it? Or is it that ‘pull’ of your American passport to a poor woman in a foreign country is your only chance at getting a woman? From the looks of it, the latter seems more likely.
Yoo hoo Street just a question boy…what is all this “free” and “freedom” you rave about..could you explain it ?.And why do you “freedom” boys get so angry with anybody who disagree with you,I would have thought freedom for people to have an opinion would be one basic.But not apparently in the “land of the free” where even your own citizens are subject to threats and bullying if they disagree with the right wing religous nutcase imperialists who run America.And as we have seen they are liable to have their pictures posted on websites with crosshairs over them.Hey how about having freedom for those of your own people who disagree with American policies (lets call them American dissidents) and stop terrorising them and calling them traitors and “America haters” and making them targets for deluded nutcases.Everybody has a right to their opinions boy.And Captain Sasha is correct AMERICA DID NOT DEFEAT GERMANY (and it only defeated Japan by using WMDs on Japanese civilians).It did slaughter a lot of German civilians as it has done to other peoples all over the world since WW2 and even long before WW2.Get your facts from a reliable source not Hollywood and Fox News.And as for your doing “good” in the world,Well then why do half the world hate and despise you and the other half regard you as Bad Jokes.
Actually as a footnote to that..20% of the people killed in the terrorist attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not even Japanese but Korean workers.
Message to street: From now, every comment of yours will be put in moderation. I can excuse your bad grammar and bad spellings, but flaming and off-topic rants in a strict no-no - unless you correct that, you won’t be seeing your comments appear here again. Have a good day.”
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Street..good to see that the patients in the mental institutions in America are allowed to use the internet.I hope you get better soon.
Stupid Euros. Can’t you tell street is a troll? They MAY not even be American and i have a hunch it may even be someone who works on this site or is a fan of this site trying to make the comments section more active than they seem while simultaneously trying to prove the “validity” of the complete, hateful and anti-American ‘worthiness’ of this blog up.
Pathetic…
@ Henry: In the United States, he is a ‘normal’ person. It is the intelligent and worldly Americans who get labelled as crazy, anti-American and what not.
@ Jon: If I had not known decent and good natured Americans, I’d have blocked all Americans from commenting here. I dislike comments like this as much as you do, although for entirely different reasons. You are not the first American to make an accusation like that. Denial seems to be the American way of coping with unpleasant truths. Pretend that everyone else is crazy and faking it all; and you are the most level headed person around. Perhaps those ’stupid Euros’ should also ‘know’ that you are a fan of this site or created by us - to keep the comments section alive and make it look like I (gasp!) allow dissent. Sounds better?
For my fellow Americans. Captain Shasha is quite correct that the northern front had decimated the Nazi troops and destroyed moral among the officer ranks and troops. Many within the Nazi military command was questioning Hitlers sanity in attacking Russia.
With that said, the final blow that did not allow Hitler to reconstitute his military strength was the Normandy D-Day attack and creating another major front to fight. It over stretched the Nazi resources, not to mention treasury. Most in the inner circle around Hitler knew it was the beginning of the end when the allies attacked from the south. Gen. Patton knew they were on their last leg, as he saw them using horse carts to transport supplies and many of the solders they killed were just teenagers and in some cases very elderly men. Not that it was a cake walk, but it did indicate that Hitler’s military was not in its prime for combat.
The northern front was a horrible battle for both sides. The Nazis had better tanks at the time, but they did not function well when winter came. The Russians were well suited for the harsh winter and fighting the Nazis back, even with less superior armaments. The allies were desperately trying to get the newer tanks and other weapons to the Russian military, but supply lines to them were problematic by sea, since the Nazis controlled the Baltic Sea with the narrow passage between Denmark, Germany and Sweden, all controlled by the Nazis. So they were mostly on their own. The Russian people really suffered from lack of many very basic necessities because of the war. Allied command was very worried that they might have massive starvation & they were running out of fuel.
American history education unfortunately does not give enough credit to the war effort by the Russians. They were a major force in the northern front and without them, Hitler would not have been defeated. Had they not decimated them in the north, the southern front would have been much longer and harder to fight. For the ignorant, there is a huge grave yard in Russia of American solders who died along side their Russian comrades during the war.
And don’t forget about the many underground operations in France, Holland, and Denmark that aided greatly in disrupting communications and supply transport of the Nazis.
We must learn from our past, so not to repeat it in the future. Les we not forget…
This is a subject close to my heart and as we get past the Hollywood propaganda films of the 60’s & 70’s history is being truly revealed.
I will task you on two things, let’s not forget that the USSR, no, Stalin was as responsible for the start of WW2 as the Nazi’s and that the war between the USSR and Germany was as far removed from the western European war in many ways as the Pacific. Secondly, you are being very harsh in your assessment of the importance of D-Day, Stalin was begging for a second fron from as early as 1943, without the western front, the Luftwaffe would have been an even bigger problem for the Russians, 8 million more artillery peices would have been on the Eastern front, not to mention the large German troop reserves that would have been available to Hitlers Generals. No, the Western Front was essential.
As for the question of the US Army coming over to Europe, the simple fact of the matter is that the Allies had NO CHOICE strategically other than to defeat Nazi Germany before Japan, what if the Nazi’s had ended up with control of the Middle East? Most of the worlds oil at their fingertips and a back door into the USSR to start another front?
So, where would that leave the US? Can you imagine the carnage of battle hardened German troops in the Pacific? The Japanese lacked resources and material, had Germany been able to supply oil, technology and troops I doubt very much that the Pacific would have been an allied victory, certainly not by 1945.
I have nothing but admiration and respect for all the allied soliers who sacrficed so much for our freedom, and that is the point, it was an ALLIED victory, not an American one, one could not have done it without the other, to claim it as an American victory is a slur on the memories of those non-Americans who made the ultimate sacrifce, it is high time the propaganda stopped.
It’s a shame that all the misinformed individuals who don’t actually know how WW2 played out will never read this in the first place, but i enjoyed it nonetheless. I am sad to say that my grandpa fought during WW2 and i have the utmost respect for his service, but it is amazing how ignorant he is about what really happened.
No doubt. The credit should be given to the Russian+Allies+Resistance armies fought the Nazi during WWII. (Tribute to the heroes)
Yoyo dont be so sure that they were all heroes, just check out their war crimes.The Soviet armies and some of the other allies were in many ways far worse than the Germans.I recommend you Google..Allied war crimes
Thanks for telling me, Henry. I will.
As an American, this is shameful, but doesn’t surprise me in the least considering the direction this country is going. Just do me a favor and don’t think all Americans are brainwashed. It’s debatable who had a bigger hand in ending the war, Russia or US. Though, I would think the war needed both of them or all of Europe would be speaking Deutsch right now. I do know that Russia made the biggest sacrifice, considering how many of her men and citizens were lost to the horrors of that war.
Wonderful, Sasha! 10 out of 10!
In my humble opinion it is unforgivable to degrade the sacrifices of all those men and women who gave their lives fighting a common enemy. I am proud that my ancestors did their part for the sake of my people, grateful for every sacrifice bestowed on the altar of victory and relieved that the Nazi machine was stopped. I don’t believe that all Americans are like Mr. Street in fact it’s impossible, for if it were so, there would be no nation called USA. Those references to devitsyas and vodka remind me of the days in the school yard where a wronged party would seek the upper hand by trying to tarnish the honor of the female relatives. Seriously, the topic switched from an apocalyptic war to how many promiscuous women and alcoholics there are in Russia. It’s just hilarious. Street, I am not going to descend to your level and start accusing the entire nation of USA of moral degradation and idiocracy. I simply believe such accusations would be baseless and immature. You should visit Russia and see for yourself, there are no bears on the roads and we don’t run our tanks n vodka. People must know what they are talking about before they boast and make accusations. And belittling the contribution of the Soviet people is a crime. I respect all self-respecting citizens of this world and hope we can all be less hot headed.