The Soviets played a more important role in winning WWII in Europe than the western allies

I agree, I did make several mistakes in me earlier writing. I probably was just not thinking enough. However you also made several errors in your history and in your thinking. -One of the reasons Hitler invaded Russia because he believed that the British hoped that Russia would come to save them. After Russia is defeated, Britain would see sense and make peace with Germany. -The Battle of the Bulge was the most important land battle that the western allies fought. The battle of Britain however was more important in its effects on the outcome of the war. If the allies had lost at El Alamein, then the Germans would still have lost the war. All the battles that the western allies fought only involved a few hundred thousands men at most. -Hitler could not have started Operation Barbarossa sooner because he needed to defeat Yugoslavia and Greece. -If Hitler had not split his forces on his offensive toward Stalingrad and the Caucus oil fields, he would still have lost the battle; Russia would simply have to move troops from the Caucuses. -Stalin was almost as brutal as Hitler was. When you talk about the citizens rising up against the Germans, you need to remember that millions of those people hated Stalin as much as they would hate Hitler. For example, until the people of Ukraine really found out what the Nazis were, they treated them as liberators. -And you largely exaggerate the effects of American supplies to the Soviet Union. I looked at your sources. It did not say that 23% of total Soviet production came from America via the Arctic route. It said that out of all the lend-lease supplies sent to the USSR, 23% of those supplies came via this route. Reread your source. http://en.wikipedia.org... I know for a fact that American supplies made up 15% of total Soviet production and that by 1943, the Soviets were producing 3 times as much as Germany. Without American supplies, the Soviets might have lost or they might not have, we will never know. -The Russian winter helped, but it was the Red Army who defeated Germany in the end. -You say that America was prepared for WWII and that it had better technology than the USSR did. The first part is completely false, the second part is somewhat true. In 1939, Poland had a larger army than the United States did. America's army when it was attacked by the Japanese was ~200,000 men. The Soviets on the other hand had an army of 7 million, 5 million of which were in the west. Japan could not invade the United States in the way Germany invaded the USSR. This gave America time to build up their industry and army. America was protected by two oceans and therefor isolated from where the main fighting was happening. The second part about America having better technology is both true and false. The American navy was perhaps the strongest in the world and American planes were definitely stronger than those of the USSR. On the other hand, the Soviet T-34 tank was the best in the world 1940-1942. Later Soviet tanks such as the KV-1 and IS-2 were also stronger than anything the USA had. In addition to this, the Soviet artillery was the best in the world. OK now here are my arguments: 1. 8 out of 10 of all German soldiers who died during WWII died on the eastern front. The German invasion of the Soviet Union was the largest invasion in history with over 4 million men and the battles on the eastern front were some of the largest and bloodiest in history. 2. Most of the Romanian, Slovakian, Finnish, Croatian, and Hungarian soldiers died on the eastern front. Italy also lost thousands of men in the east. These countries were all allied to Germany and provided a third of its manpower for the invasion of the Soviet Union. 3. The Soviets captured Berlin. This was the bloodiest battle in history second only to Stalingrad and it was the Soviet capture of Berlin that caused Hitler to commit suicide and thus effectively end the war in Europe. 4. The western allies were the ones who allowed WWII to start. France and Britain forced Germany to sign the treaty of Versailles in 1919 which would ensure that Germany live in poverty for years and later look to Hitler as the solution to their problems. When Germany broke the treaty Britain and France who wanted to avoid another war and decided to do nothing about it. This allowed Germany to build up the most powerful army in the world and begin annexing Austria, Czechoslovakia, and other territories. And then Germany and Italy both sent forces to help the Fascists in Spain... The Soviets were there opposing them but where was Britain and France? In 1939 Italy invaded Albania and Ethiopia. What did Britain and France do? Nothing! As a matter of fact, in order to invade the Ethiopia, Italy went through the British controlled Suez Canal. It was only after Germany wanted the Danzig corridor in Poland which it had had before they were defeated in WWI that Britain and France signed a pact with Poland to defend against German aggression. When Hitler was refused his request he decided to invade Poland. And once again, where were the British and French? Hiding behind their Maginot line. They let their ally bleed to death, just like they did when Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Churchill and Roosevelt agreed to open a second front in France in 1942. Stalin was waiting for this front, but instead he got a German offensive in the south toward the Caucus oilfields and the city of Stalingrad. After the western allies did not open a second front in 1942, they agreed to invade France in 1943 and once again they did not invade. It was only in 1944, 11 months before the end of the war when it was clear that Germany was going to lose, that the British and Americans finally invaded.