Posted by oldtanker on April 18, 2018 at 09:59:01 from (66.228.255.59):
In Reply to: OT Russia in WWII posted by riverslim on April 18, 2018 at 07:36:14:
Really? We still don't understand the full effects of nuclear radiation and you wish we would have used more of them?
Yes, the Russians bore the greatest effort in the fighting against Germany. And at the start of the German attack Russia would have had a hard time surviving had it not been for Hitler's blunders and the limited amounts of good that got through.
Between Stalin's purges and WWII Russia lost nearly 50 million people by conservative figures. The only reason the US was stronger than the Soviets at wars end was because of the A-bomb. We had it and they didn't.
Think about this: Had it not been for the allies, especially the US's ability to produce goods Germany might well have been able to defeat the Soviets. The Russians didn't do too bad producing tanks and aircraft either.
We strangled Japan. Last year or so of the war they could get very little in the way of raw materials to the home islands to make into war fighting materials. US Navy subs and carrier operations cut off Japans ability to supply itself. Just what Hitler had tried to do to England. But the Uboats were defeated. No, not by numbers sunk but when US production ramped up and we were building freighters, tanker and troop ships faster than Germany could sink them. Without that ability to build ships and to produce the goods to fill them we could never have supplied either England or Russia.
WWII was won on the factory floor. Ours, Canada's, England's and Russia's. Yes the soldiers on all sides fought hard and endured hardships seldom known to man. But without the tools to fight with all those armies were was a mob.
Thing is at the end of WWII to defeat the Soviets would have taken an all out effort. Most likely using the A-bomb as they became available. Not too sure that would have been a good idea.
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