re: The Nuremberg Trials

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The war machine that Hitler aroused in the USSR was far greater than that of our own

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This is 100% false. By the end of the war, the United States had the strongest and most technologically advanced military force on the planet. By 1944, two-thirds of all Allied equipment used in the field had been produced in U.S. factories. Lend-Lease also kept the Soviets afloat. Over the course of the war, we sent to them 400,000 jeeps, 7,000 tanks, 11,400 aircraft, and almost 2 million tons of food.

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We didn't have the manpower, first and foremost. The Nazis took out tens of millions of Russians and never touched Moscow, and that was well before Russia actually threw everything they had into war. After that the Russian armed forces swelled in size to something close to 10 million - AFTER they had lost all those men to the Nazis.

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One again....false. By 1945, there were 12 million American men and women in the United States armed forces - 6 million of those were in the U.S. Army. These numbers were very comparable to what the Soviets had in their armed forces at that particular time.

We had only lost 400,000 men in the Second World War compared to about 11 million for the Soviet Union. The main difference between the Germans and Soviets was the huge population advantage the Russians enjoyed. They would not enjoy such an advantage over the United States as our populations were statistically comparable at the time.

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The other thing that went against us - communism. USSR could put 100% of their labor force into the war machine. They were cranking out tanks and planes faster than the US and Britain combined, training pilots at 3x the rate, and there's not even a figure for ground troops.

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Yeah...once again this is false. The entirety of the U.S. economy from 1942-1945 was focused on war production, just like every other major power involved in the Second World War. As stated above, we were supplying the Allies with over 66% of all equipment used in the war by 1944.

The "Soviet Steamroller" myth is nothing more than Soviet propaganda.