First North Korean Soldier Captured by Ukrainian Forces

[rightwinger]

Mostly rubbish that ignores most of the relevant stuff. They had nothing to launch drives with until long after Stalingrad. They had to build up with U.S. and British aid first. Hitler's no retreat orders allowed encirclement; no driving back was being conducted. And the German still inflicted heavy casualties on them, since they had little in the way of strategy, just human wave attacks. and attrition. The Allied bombings and invasion of Italy and Europe won the war; the supplying of arms to the Soviets was the only reason they were in the war after 1941. They were just the hired help.

Doesn’t change the reality that it was the Soviets doing most of the damage to the Germans
Germany lost 5.5 million soldiers
About 5 million to the Soviets

 

[Picaro]

Doesn’t change the reality that it was the Soviets doing most of the damage to the Germans
Germany lost 5.5 million soldiers
About 5 million to the Soviets

They lost to the hired help, using Allied gear, gunpowder, trucks, food, uniforms, etc. and we notice you left out the Soviet losses to Germans in your Great Soviet Victory bullshit. That would be 20 to 27 million.

Te American and Brit invaders generated 6.7 dead Germans for every Allied death, along with being the source of Soviet 'success', a far better record and clear evidence they could have won without the Soviet human wave stuff, and were of course the real winners, not your Soviet Heroes. You do left the 4.3 million captured on top of the million or so killed and wounded Germans in the West, which puts the Allies at the same rate as the Soviets, only the Euro front was only about a year and a half, not the 4 the Soviets had. Sucks to be as uninformed as you are, considering how easy the stats are to find.

 

[JoeB131]

Fun Fact: The CIA didn't have to do much at all, and spent around $500,000 to support the Shah; Mossyheadedayglo just wasn't the big popular guy the left wingers and conspiratardos portray him as. We spent far more on Tito, and nobody runs around blathering Tito was a 'CIA tool'.

It wasn't just the overthrow of Mossedeqi that was the problem, it was the 25 years of supporting the Shah that followed while he systematically eliminated every other source of legitimate opposition except the Clergy (which he couldn't touch because the people would revolt against him if he did.)

The Clergy found themselves as the only opposition to his misrule, and they took it.

The problem is, they kind of suck at governing. But our 45-year economic war on them for picking a form of government we don't like needs to end.