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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Bilow who wrote (36910)8/11/2002 8:26:42 AM
From: Hoa Hao  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Carl,

Nobody wanted to keep fighting after VE day... including the Sovs. The reality is, is that in '45 the Soviet army was burned out. Had the US wanted to, it could have gone all the way to Moscow. That's without nuclear weapons BTW, or allies. Most people do not realize just how powerful the US was/is. The United States started to curtail war production in Nov of 44; my father was released from military service in Nov. '44. US production, especially aircraft was cut dramatically after VE day.

Common views in the US post WW2 is that the Germans had all these "secret weapons" under development but most were junk and dead ends. After WW2 Stalin, knowing just how weak he truly was, used his leftist allies in the west to create a propaganda campaign to tout the Soviet army and denigrate US lendlease aid. Did you know that armor Soviet Guard Regiments were equipt with the vastly superior Sherman tank?? I saw a National Public TV program about a year ago on Soviet WW2 air, and the they were speaking about some Soviet air ace. "He flew the Yak yada, yada yada...", quick flash of this guy leaned up against a US built AirCobra. Hehehe...
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