re: Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allies on this day 79 years ago...

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90% credit for the USSR is deserved because of the savagery and barbarism required to beat back the fanatical, meth head germans. they were on the frontline in brutal weather in some of the worst circumstances imaginable.

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And they don't do any of that without American material and financial aide. It also can't be understated how much of our strategic bombing campaign had on the ability of Germany to keep up the pace of production required to turn out the machines to defend themselves against the onslaught of the Red Army. The Russians did the lion's share of fighting against the Germans in World War II. That is beyond dispute. However, all of that fanatical fighting is all for naught if they don't have industrial materials and products, such as aviation gasoline, metals and machine tools for the manufacture of munitions, cloth and leather to make uniforms and shoes in the factories of Soviet Russia. By June 1944 we had sent 11,000 planes, 6,000 tanks and tank destroyers, and 300,000 trucks to aid Russia in its fight against the Germans.