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Originally Posted by uffandr
Because the Athlantic Border of Nazis was a mythe. .....And the British Prime-Minister even sacrificed two thousand soldgiers while attacking Djepp – the most fortificated point on the European sea-bank –
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Well, you can't really have it both ways - if the Atlantic border was a myth, I cannot understand why 2000 soldiers would have been sacrificed against it. Dieppe was certainly not the strongest point, as anyone who has visited the Pas-de-Calais will attest.
The RAF at Dieppe were torn apart by the Luftwaffe which delivered the salutary lesson that no invasion could succeed without superiority in the air ; something the Allies didn't have in 1942.
Forgive me for saying this, but I do get the impression that the Russian view of WWII in some quarters is driven by an element of paranoia - or to put it another way, a chip-on-the-shoulder.....