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POINTLESS THREAD III: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN AGAIN
Pilchard123:
That looks like the Lion King or Madagascar 2
LeeC:
BeoPuppy:
--- Quote from: Akima on 02 Aug 2013, 03:44 ---[WWII on Facebook]
I should not expect anything else, I suppose, but where was China? I mean, we only fought Japan for eight years (1937-1945), and didn't surrender despite somewhere between twenty and thirty million military and civilian casualties. Once, America knew that...
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China's contributions to the second world war are glossed over. At least, I'd never realized until, well, NOW, that there was such a thing. And I've been taught the history of WWII three times in school always in multi week blocks. In the version I've been taught it's the US that wins in the end, unaided.
snalin:
Haha. We at least got the "well... the Russians probably would have won on their own anyways, eventually, but the rest of the allied forces sure helped!".
GarandMarine:
Actually the Russians were probably fucked without American support. We like to picture vast hordes of T-34s as far as the horizon stretches with proud banners of the Soviet army flying in the breeze but without lend lease Shermans, rifles, ammunition and other goods the Soviet army would have even LESS to give to their conscript waves to throw at German lines. What stopped Operation Barbarossa from burning Moscow wasn't the iron will of the Russian people, but rather the Russian winter, Hitler's poor planning and the sapping of German forces by Operation Torch in the Mediterranean (indeed, one of the primary objectives of the North Africa campaign was to open up another fight to try and relieve some of the pressure on the Soviets) and then later the Allied Invasion of Europe, at which point Nazi Germany's forces were over extended, under supplied and were shattered.
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