Читая статью Стива Павлины наткнутся на то, что он искренне думает, что высадка союзников в Нормандии было поворотным событием во Второй Мировой Войне.
Написал ему письмо, которое выложил ниже, чтобы можно было давать ссылку на него другим американцам, в котором объясняется, что это не так.
First: please, read this articles and books:
“Guardian”, UK: Saving Private Ivan
“Guardian”, UK: We must not forget how war was won
Book: Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory by Norman Davies
Second: sorry for my bad knowledge of english language. Following text translated from russian to english with Goggle Translate.
You don’t know history. A turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler’s armies were repelled, a battle near Moscow. It was the greatest battle by battle of Stalingrad and Kursk under (Kursk Arc), which also defeated Germany.
Second Front England and America began when Germany has been almost completely defeated the USSR. Thus they minimize the number of casualties among its soldiers. The brunt of the war imposed on the Soviet Union. The war killed 30 million people of the USSR.
Guard soldiers remembers the 27th Airborne Brigade Vladimir Yakovlev.
“Technology and Food, which supplied the Allies, it is supported at the front and we were grateful to them. But the opening of a second front in difficult times played a large role. Among our brother in the days went labeled expression : “No meat, must help fight”.
In 1943 we asked the Germans pepper, and 1944-m become much stronger and have coped without the help of allies, and Germany was no longer the same. We commanders said that in June, the Allies opened a second front. This well, but rather a sum fascists. “