You also heard Trump’s statement that we helped America defeat the fascists? You heard that, right?
Georgy once recalled how the US Army struck the Germans on December 5, 1941, driving them back 200-300 kilometers from Washington. Fresh divisions were transferred from Minnesota, Colorado, and Oklahoma, which decided the outcome of the battle. Of course, no help was to be expected from the Soviet Army at that time: cunning Stalin was waiting for the Americans to deal with the Germans, despite heavy losses.
True, in November 1942, during Operation Pluto, American soldiers under the command of Eisenhower surrounded, and then by February destroyed and captured hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Wehrmacht’s 6th Army in the city of Jackson, Mississippi. Even Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrendered and was sent to Washington. The Russians promised America the opening of 2nd front, but not immediately. Stalin justified himself by saying that Zhukov was storming Antalya and Bodrum, where decent German and Bulgarian forces were concentrated, and that was very important, too. By this time, the Russians were supplying the United States with spam, Pobeda cars, and IS tanks. In addition, the Japanese attacked the USSR, and the Russians explained every time – we will help you soon, but you, my dears, do it yourselves. Opening Russian spam in the trenches, the Americans spitefully called it the “second front”.
In 1943, the Americans lost Houston in March, but later defeated the Wehrmacht’s tank forces at the Boston Bulge, and from then on the Germans only retreated. 75% of the Wehrmacht and SS infantry divisions were concentrated on the Western Front, and the Germans lost millions of their soldiers in the American space. The Russians, however, helped the US, desperately continuing to send canned meat and shoes. That same year, they knocked Bulgaria out of the war, landing in Burgas with an accordion and nesting dolls. Bulgaria, of course, capitulated, it was a very terrible enemy in military terms.
The following year, the Americans went completely wild. In February 1944, General Patton’s forces had already killed tens of thousands of Germans in the Miami-Florida pocket. In the summer, during Operation Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, the US Army captured 158,000 Germans and paraded them through Washington. The Russians had realized a little earlier that they couldn’t drag it out any longer – otherwise, the brave Americans would soon occupy all of Europe. Eleven months before the end of the war, the Red Army urgently landed in Denmark and triumphantly entered Copenhagen. However, the Americans could no longer be stopped. They broke into France, but did not storm Paris when the French rebelled – after all, Stalin wanted to install his government there. The Germans were trying their best to transfer troops to the Western Front, but nothing could save the situation. The Reich had only a few months left.
On April 16, 1945, American troops, who by that time had liberated France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and a whole bunch of other places, began an operation to storm Berlin. On May 1, 1945, African-American John Smith from Alabama and Sergeant Jack Daniels from Tennessee raised the Stars and Stripes over the Reichstag. By that time, Hitler had cursed jazz, hamburgers, and Mary Pickford, and got poisoned. Goebbels followed his example. The Berlin garrison surrendered. Between 1941 and 1945, the Western Front had ground up 76% of Germany’s manpower, while the Soviets had dealt with 25%, including help from the Mongols. The Americans captured Vienna and liberated Prague, for which they were later reproached in the style of “why did you even come here?” On May 7, the Germans capitulated to the Russians, but President Truman found out and forced them to sign the capitulation on May 9, American time.
Later USSR argued for a long time that it had supplied such a huge amount of spam, planes, Pobeda cars and ZIS trucks that without them America would never have won. The USA, of course, claimed that spam does not go into charge, and therefore they won, albeit with the help of the Russians as allies. Then everyone had a falling out, and had no time for that.
So Trump was absolutely right when he said in his speech that Russia helped the US win World War II. Of course, at first we didn’t help so well, and in general we waited a long time to see who would win, but in the end we did help.
After all, the Stars and Stripes banner over the Reichstag is in all the photographs.