But seriously, Hitler and his evil regime were destroyed by the Russian people. And June 22nd is a day that should be acknowledged. Not for Stalin but for the Russian people who fought fascism. Both in the army and in the partisan battles.
25 million Russians were killed by the war. More Russians died in the siege of Leningrad than all the Allies put together in the whole war: 1.5 million.
Then we celebrate the landings at Normandy. But what won the war was the Soviet counter-attack on June 22nd 1944 called Operation Bagration. It killed more German soldiers and conquered more land than twenty D-Days.
I’m not a Soviet masturbator. They’re just as bad as the Nazis in most ways. But it just bothers me when the west fails to even acknowledge the eastern front, on which 80% of Nazis were defeated.
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