Hi Sam:
> In the summer of 1941 Hitler launched Barbarossa and attacked the USSR. The
> Eastern Front was by a very long way the most vicious and destructive
> theatre in WW2. The Russians beat the Nazis. (D-Day and the invasion of
> Normandy was important in stopping the Russian advance, not in beating the
> Nazis - and that was a good thing)
It's speculation of course, but it's highly doubtful that Russia could have
defeated Hitler's Germany on its own. Germany was developing
rockets and the atom bomb which it likely would have had the time to
produce if it had had the luxury to put all its armed forces on holding the
Eastern front.
Platt
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