[spanalot]

"*Said troops and American public were heartily sick of the war by that time."

Yes butwe had the bomb - and a few hundred thousand casualties in Moscow and Stalingrad would have saved us 50 million genocide victims.

[RHINO369]

"Yes butwe had the bomb - and a few hundred thousand casualties in Moscow and Stalingrad would have saved us 50 million genocide victims."

The nuclear weapons of that day weren't particularly powerful. Moscow and Stalingrad were already mostly destroyed as it was. I think you underestimate the number of people Stalin would kill just to win. He'd attempt to beat us the way he beat the Germans. Throw massive ways of untrained under fed, under equipped troops at our smaller yet well trained troops. A war with Russia at that time would costs us hundreds of thousands of lives.

To be honest the around 50 thousand lives we lost fighting communism during the cold war would pale in comparison to Second Battle of Berlin that we would have had to fight.