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To: i-node who wrote (67476)	4/18/2018 5:43:55 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 360688

That is counter-factual. Chamberlain was following the advice of his own generals. And you are ignoring the fact that he was more than willing to commit British troops a year later, after they had a chance to rearm at least somewhat. Most importantly, he bought enough time for Britain to have the tools they needed to counter the Luftwaffe. And that was time that Great Britain desperately needed. Look, it isn't my fault you are ignorant of history. Talk about spouting ignorant shit. Which isn't to say that Chamberlain did everything perfectly. He didn't. But he was dealt a pretty crappy hand. And he did a decent job given the the situation. Now he could have pushed his country harder to prepare for war. He should have put the country on war footing sooner. Chamberlain probably trusted Hitler a bit too much. But no competent military leader would have committed Germany to the things that Hitler did that early. It happened to have worked out, but you don't put the lives of your troops on the line and hope it all works out like Hitler did.

To: i-node who wrote (67476)	4/18/2018 5:52:46 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 360688

The Soviets won WWII. washingtonpost.com 'The Red Army was "the main engine of Nazism’s destruction," writes British historian and journalist Max Hastings in "Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945." The Soviet Union paid the harshest price: though the numbers are not exact, an estimated 26 million Soviet citizens died during World War II, including as many as 11 million soldiers. At the same time, the Germans suffered three-quarters of their wartime losses fighting the Red Army. "It was the Western Allies’ extreme good fortune that the Russians, and not themselves, paid almost the entire ‘butcher’s bill’ for [defeating Nazi Germany], accepting 95 per cent of the military casualties of the three major powers of the Grand Alliance," writes Hastings.'