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Originally Posted by Za Rodinu
Come on, Slo, you have to be exagerating. Of course the Allied landings in D-Day (not only US, but UK, Canada, etc.) were extremely important to guarantee final victory. If nothing else, to distract sizable forces from appearing in the Eastern Front. Otherwise why was Stalin always clamouring for a Second Front, while unsatisfied with the Italian Front which numerically meant peanuts for him?
This is complete BS. At the time of D-Day the Red Army was still operating in BieloRussia and Ukraine, and there were still Geman troops in the region of Leningrad. The Western Allies did the landings in order to defeat the Reich, not to preempt a Red Army conquest of Europe. Or are you trying to fight the Cold War before it's time?
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I agree with you on this one, the Soviets needed a true second front and Stalin was complaining (rightly so) that it seemed to be taking forever to get around to it, had the western allies decided that it was not worth a second landing such as D-Day then the Germans might have been able to stabalise the Eastern Front as mention above and in Italy, this might have extended the war in Europe for an unknown period. But if the western allies did not do a D-Day landing and it was up to the Soviets to liberated Europe, Stalin in his opinion would never give up Europe while he was in charge (and again he would be absolutely correct to do so).