the Soviets did all the heavy lifting and they let the UK bleed themselves against Hitler and imperial japan.
Well, America did sit on its ass issuing loans to the UK and the USSR and waited until the best opportunity before jumping in just so it could get a foothold in asia, so have to give the devil its due, but no, it is not “american” to beat up nazis, it was a foreign policy fluke that ended when america started hiring nazis for its intelligence operations
This severely undermines all that happened with America in WW2.
No, it strips the fantasy that America was The Good Guy™ that saved the day.
Like, by mere body count, America didn’t do shit in WWII. The soviets lost more civilians in Leningrad alone than Americans lost soldiers in every theatre of war combined. If America had suffered damage proportional to what the soviets endured, almost every major city east of the Mississippi would have to be razed to the ground. (Can you imagine, America loses two towers in New York and it drops all pretenses by granting the president an imperium to buff up the secret police, torture, and wage multiple wars for funsies and profit. If they knew tragedy like other countries do, they’d surrender so fast and lick whatever new boot you show them before you can say, “kneel”)
If this is the first time you’re exposed to the reality of america’s dithering and slimy way of fighting wars, then welcome to the first day of your life, most of what you think is a lie, take a seat and listen because you’re out of your element here.
lol yes seriously, it’s criminal that america has been able to restructure the entire narrative of ww2 and make itself the savior of the world when it’s soldiers didn’t even step foot in western europe until literally the 58th month of a 69 month long conflict and even then, at no point did it fight more than 20% of the german military! its not a stretch to say at all that the defeat of nazi germany was singlehandedly a soviet endeavor. and like, the war against japan, which is always similarly called an exclusively american affair is just as false and misleading when the only real troops the americans fought were literally besieged, starving japanese soldiers on small pacific islands while the most powerful forces remained on the continent fighting against the chinese and british/indians. funnily enough, the largest and most powerful japanese army of the war was also completely defeated by the soviets in like a week lol (it took the usa like 3 months to defeat a japanese force a tenth of that size on okinawa all while suffering massively more casualties)
nobody thinks america did shit apart from americans
I keep sayin’! As an American vet who lived in Europe, I’ve had both the indoctrination from American schools AND the actual, historical version, and the two are vastly different. America did indeed help, but we didn’t “swoop in and save the day” the way so many people here like to believe. Russia did orders of fucking MAGNITUDE more than we did, fielding and losing literally millions upon millions upon millions of troops and civilians. Even Japan’s final capitulation was at least as much due to the 1.5 million Soviet troops poised to invade as to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Also, america didn’t beat the nazis
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