"In late May 1942 the Soviet Union and the United States made a joint announcement that a "... full understanding was reached with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe in 1942." However, Churchill persuaded Roosevelt to postpone the promised invasion as, even with American help, the Allies did not have adequate forces for such a strike.
"Instead of an immediate return to France, the Western Allies staged offensives in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, where British troops were already stationed. By mid-1943, the campaign in North Africa had been won. The Allies then launched the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, and later invaded Italy in September 1943. By then, Soviet forces were on the offensive and had won a major victory at the Battle of Stalingrad. The decision to undertake a cross-channel invasion within the next year was taken at the Trident Conference in Washington in May 1943. Initial planning was constrained by the number of available landing craft, most of which were already committed in the Mediterranean and Pacific. At the Tehran Conference in November 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill promised Stalin that they would open the long-delayed second front in May 1944."
- Wikipedia.
The fate of the Soviet Union hung in the balance at Stalingrad. They desperately needed our intervention
And still, FDR held back....waiting for the "right time"
"The fate of the Soviet Union hung in the balance at Stalingrad. They desperately needed our intervention
And still, FDR held back....waiting for the "right time"
OMG!!!!
What nonsense.
Of course, Roosevelt lap-dogs have to claim that, or they can't explain Roosevelt's obeisance to Stalin.
Stalin was never.......never....going to lose to his former ally.
No, Germany would not have conquered the USSR.
Hitler knew that....and so must have Roosevelt.
Here are the facts:
.. when Operation Barbarossa started on June 22, 1941,
the available (German) supplies of fuel, tires, spare parts etc., were only good enough for about two months.....
Stalin, in fact, had been supplying resources to Hitler.
The Wehrmacht continued to advance, albeit
very slowly, and by mid-Novembersome units found themselves at only 30 kilometers from the capital. But the
troops were now totally exhausted, and running out of supplies. Their commanders knew that it was simply impossible to take Moscow.
Hitler s Failed Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union. The Battle of Moscow and Stalingrad Turning Point of World War II Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
72 Years Ago, December 1941: Turning Point of World War II
'The Victory of the Red Army in front of Moscow was a Major Break'…
by Jacques Pauwels
"....realistically middle sized
Germany could not defeat the much larger USSR in the long term.
Germany would have eventually surrendered to the western allies to prevent total occupation by the USSR ..."
So did the Red Army really singlehandedly defeat the Third Reich Stuff I Done Wrote - The Michael A. Charles Online Presence(comment)
By attacking in June,
Hitler had planned to avoid Russia's three greatest generals....December, January, and February.
He didn't.
PoliticalChics own links refute her outrageously fraudulent statement.
"Stalin was never.....nerver...going to lose to his former ally."
This is a great example of how cherry picking and distorting quotes can completely misinform and be twisted into a fraudulent claim.
The claim that the Soviet victory over Germany was a certainty is a foundation claim to support PoliticalChics many anti-FDR threads. It is a theory with no merit and not accepted by any historians. The fate of the outcome of the war between Germany and the USSR was an unknown and historians are in fundamental agreement that while the harsh Russian winter eventually played a role, its effects could have been avoided if not for Hitler's war changing blunders in splitting his Army and getting bogged down at Stalingrad.
As pointed out, PoliticalChics own link to Global Research confirms her ignorance or willful misleading on the topic. In addition, here are other sources to prove the ignorance or willful misleading in an effort to demonize FDR.
www.2worldwar2.com/when-hitler-lost.htm
historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/catastrophe-stalingrad.htm
.. when Operation Barbarossa started on June 22, 1941,
the available (German) supplies of fuel, tires, spare parts etc., were only good enough for about two months.....
Stalin, in fact, had been supplying resources to Hitler.
The Wehrmacht continued to advance, albeit
very slowly, and by mid-Novembersome units found themselves at only 30 kilometers from the capital. But the
troops were now totally exhausted, and running out of supplies. Their commanders knew that it was simply impossible to take Moscow.
Hitler s Failed Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union. The Battle of Moscow and Stalingrad Turning Point of World War II Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization
72 Years Ago, December 1941: Turning Point of World War II
'The Victory of the Red Army in front of Moscow was a Major Break'…
by Jacques Pauwels
By attacking in June,
Hitler had planned to avoid Russia's three greatest generals....December, January, and February.
He didn't.
So....once one recognizes that Stalin was going to be the winner.....
....why did FDR send him supplies that the Allies could have used?
The schools hide the truth to shield FDR from richly deserved contumely.
Same reason so many universities eschew teaching the French Revolution....students might recognize that it gave birth to every totalitarian revolution in modern times.
"....realistically middle sized
Germany could not defeat the much larger Ussrin the long term. Germany would have eventually surrendered to the western allies to prevent total occupation by the USSR ..."
So did the Red Army really singlehandedly defeat the Third Reich Stuff I Done Wrote - The Michael A. Charles Online Presence(comment)
11. "Between June 22, 1941, and January 31, 1942, the Germans had lost 6,000 airplanes and more than 3,200 tanks and similar vehicles; and no less than 918,000 men had been killed, wounded, or gone missing in action, amounting to 28.7 percent of the average strength of the army, namely, 3,2 million men.[33]
(In the Soviet Union, Germany would lose no less than 10 million of its total 13.5 million men killed, wounded, or taken prisoner during the entire war; and
the Red Army would end up claiming credit for 90 per cent of all Germans killedin the Second World War.)
Clive Ponting, 'Armageddon: The Second World War,' p. 130; Stephen E. Ambrose 'Americans at War,' p. 72. ”
Gads....so easy to prove you're a lying Roosevelt boot-licker.
