re: Do Russian history students learn about WWII the other way around?

Not true. The communist and nationalist forces declared a ceasefire during the Japanese invasion and only resumed the conflict after WW2.

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The Republic of China was fighting Communist China (backed by Russia) and the Japanese at the same time.

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Would the US be better off by a unified Europe? I don't think so. We are better off when the other nations are weaker.
WW2 was the best thing that ever happened to the US.

This is false. The German offensive in the Ardennes was not intended to win the war. The Germans already knew at that point they could not win. The Ardennes offensive was intended to damage and delay the West long enough for Hitler and his cronies to be able to convince them that the USSR was the true enemy, and then the western Allies would join forces with the Germans to throw the Russians back into Siberia and save the world from communism. Yes, the Nazis really believed this was a possibility.

The only thing the offensive ultimately achieved was ensuring that the Russians would reach Berlin before the US.

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This is false. The German offensive in the Ardennes was not intended to win the war. The Germans already knew at that point they could not win. The Ardennes offensive was intended to damage and delay the West long enough for Hitler and his cronies to be able to convince them that the USSR was the true enemy, and then the western Allies would join forces with the Germans to throw the Russians back into Siberia and save the world from communism. Yes, the Nazis really believed this was a possibility.

The only thing the offensive ultimately achieved was ensuring that the Russians would reach Berlin before the US.

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I know all of this. That was the moment that Germany ceased as a capable fighting force and was at the will to the Russian and western allies

Russian history books also teach that the U.S. "stole" Alaska from Russia by replacing the word "lease" with "sell" in the transfer treaty.

They claim Czar Alexander II thought he was signing a 99 year lease agreement with the U.S. for $7.2 million because that was the wording of his Russian translation version of the treaty. But the Americans substituted "sell" in the English version.

They use the date of Alaska's statehood admission as proof that the U.S. knew it was supposed to return Alaska to Russia in 1966, 99 years after the 1867 transaction, because congress admitted Alaska as a state in 1959 to make it impossible for the Russians to regain Alaska.

I had two different Russians in two different Russian cities explain that to me. It was all I could to avoid laughing as they told me.

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TheTideMustRoll

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Obviously this will veer the thread off course, but prejudice against Jews was present everywhere in Europe, not just Germany. It was rooted in the fact that, under the medieval Catholic Church, usury (lending money at interest) was prohibited by papal decree. Judaism had no such prohibition, so naturally many Jews became moneylenders. As banking became a thing in the Renaissance, it was also then natural for Jews to be heavily involved in them, since they had already been carrying out some of the same functions. Jews also, again naturally, tended to keep to themselves, and of course there was a great deal of prejudice directed towards them for the Jewish role in the crucifixion and just from a religious standpoint in general. Combine all of that together and let it stew for a few hundred years, and you get the Jewish stereotype: selfish, evil, in control of the world's money, and only interested in stealing whatever money they didn't control already.

Germany post-WWI was a powder keg looking for a match. The Great War had cost them millions dead with nothing to show for it. Also remember that there was never any serious fighting on German soil, and that just two months prior to the German surrender, at the height of the German 1918 offensive, it seriously appeared that Germany would win. This combined to produce in the average German a willingness to believe that Germany hadn't truly been beaten, that they had been sold out and betrayed when victory was still possible. It didn't help that prominent military leaders at the time were saying the same thing in an effort to not be blamed for the defeat. All that was needed was a villain, and Hitler and the Nazis helpfully stepped in to provide one in the form of international Jewry, who were already hated and who no one really cared what happened to. All of the anger and pain and shame people felt over the extraordinary cost of losing the war and the awful economic collapse afterwards suddenly had a focus, and that focus is what allowed Hitler to gain power.

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so much correctness in this post

Freaking Russians

I'm not sure I agree with that either, but I see what you are saying. I would argue that the destruction of Army Group Center during Operation Bagration in the summer of '44 was the true end of the German Army as a fighting force. After that they lacked the capacity to meaningfully resist the Russians.

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elitist Jews starving and hurting lower/middle class Germans. Same thing is happening in America right now.

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