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Originally Posted by pan6467
SF, um did you forget D-Day? Generals Bradley and Patton? The Russians were the first in Berlin, BUT Stalin did not defeat the Nazis.... the US, UK AND USSR together as a TEAM defeated Nazi Germany. Not any single country. 
In all honesty had Hitler listened to what Bismark had preached 50 years earlier Hitler could have won.
Bismark:
1) Let sleeping bears sleep (never attack Russia)
2) Never challenge Britain on the high seas
3) Never fight a 2 front war.
Bismark should have added never trust an alliance with Italy in there also.  |
In the end, the Russians would have beaten the Germans anyway. It would have come at a greater cost, true, but it was inevitable. One only has to look at tank production of the two sides to see this. Even though the Soviets lost 3 to 4 tanks for every German tank, they had the numbers to win.
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