I've seen many WWII threads on here so i decided to make my own. How come Americans and British always ignore Soviet's role in ww2?
after all they fought 80% of the whole German army, they also lost more men than any other nation. Majority of the German troops died in the East. I am fully aware about Stalin and his crimes against his own people, but you have to realize that most of the Russians weren't fighting the Nazis for Stalin! they fought the enemy to defend their homeland. The war in the East was much different than the West, Hitler viewed Russians as "Sub-Humans" he did not see any value in them. In fact he ordered all his generals to treat them harshly. That's a big mistake in my opinion, if Hitler was smart he would have treated the civilians really well so that way all the Russians would fight the Communist government.
I've notcied that many people from the West have little knowledge about the East, every time i ask them about the Soviets their response is always the same "They raped million of german women in berlin" or "they defeated the germans because of the weather". I find them very ignorant. They have no idea how the Nazis treated the Soviet population. For every 1 dead german killed by the russian partisans, 100 russian civilians would be shot, and for every 1 wounded german 50 russians would be shot. im talking about the occupied parts were the Partisans fought the Nazis. the death toll in soviet union by the end of ww2 was 28million there were hardly any russian family who did not lose a relative. And all i hear is how the soviets comitted crimes in Berlin.
I trust no one, not even myself.
