I give it to the Russians..
The Red Army wasn't beaten, and by the end of the war they were racing towards Berlin just as fast as Patton's armor...
Forget air power.. Any planes would be shredded by Red Army AA guns.. Forget Patton's tanks, they would be stuck defending itself from the Red Army, the conscripts Russia picked up liberating Eastern Europe (Eastern Europe at that time had about as much trust for North Americans then they did for Germans.. Russia was still the liberator at that point) and from pockets of Waffen and regular German units..
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"Life is possible only with illusions. And so, the question for the science of mental health must become an absolutely new and revolutionary one, yet one that reflects the essence of the human condition: On what level of illusion does one live?"
-- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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