Some people like to say that it was the Soviets, not the U.S., that defeated the Nazis. But the Nazis and Soviets were allies for the first part of the war, and afterward the U.S. supplied the Soviets with the materials it needed, not the other way around. And some, such as myself, like to say that the Soviets murdered more people than the Nazis, and we never should have allied with them in the later part of WWII.
It was indeed the Soviets. They also freed auschwitz.
Nikita Khrushchev, who led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, agreed with Stalin’s assessment. In his memoirs, Khrushchev described how Stalin stressed the value of Lend-Lease aid: “He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war.”
You know what we never supplied to Russia?
The 20 millions lives it spent to defeat the nazis, including over 10 million military.
What could Hitler have done if he hadn’t opened a 2 front in the East….and been defeated by Russia…largely before we ever landed in Normandy…
If we want to remember bad treaties with Hitler, let’s look at Neville Chamberlain…..and even our bosom buddies we are now backing in Ukraine who enthusiastically embraced the nazi goals of racial purity through genocide and still parade their WW2 nationalist units that showed valor in murdering Jews, Poles, Roma, and after 1945, “communists”