Debate: Who was the hero of World War 2?
Side: U.S.S.R

"Largest in terms of body count, sure, but that's simply because Russia had a huge population size, and it's soldiers were getting massacred by German forces throughout the majority of the war."Well, the above statement isn't necessary false, of course the Russians were getting massacred, they were fighting the Nazis single handedly.Also, your attempt to simply equate the magnitude of the military campaign with the body count is pretty disingenuous, the Eastern Front was the largest military confrontation in history, that doesn't mean it simply had the most deaths, it means no other military confrontation can compare in terms of scale. The Nazi war machine, which was the most technologically advanced in the world at the time, was defeated on the Eastern Front, I don't think any other country could have accomplished what the USSR accomplished, if Hitler had held up his alliance with the USSR, Britain have been crushed under his boot heel, and Allies would have lost, simple as."The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterized by unprecedented ferocity, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life variously due to combat, starvation, exposure, disease, and massacres. The Eastern Front, as the site of nearly all extermination camps, death marches, ghettos, and the majority of pogroms, was central to the Holocaust. Of the estimated 70 million deaths attributed to World War II, over 30 million,[6] many of them civilians, died on the Eastern Front. The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome of World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for Germany's defeat.[7][8][9] It resulted in the destruction of the Third Reich, the partition of Germany for nearly half a century and the rise of the Soviet Union as a military and industrial superpower."Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Industrial_ #Industrial_) %20output #Industrial_%20output)"A lot of Russian soldiers weren't even issued a rifle, and were required to pick up rifles from fallen comrades. "I'm well aware of that."The Americans were fighting the Germans, the Italians, and The Japanese."Please stop, you never really fought the German army, Britain and the US only had to defeat a relatively meagre force Hitler had positioned on teh Western front, it had no backup. At no point in the whole course of the war did the Allies have the entire force of the Third Reich bearing down on them, the USSR on the other hand had to deal with the entire German army for three whole years before another front was even opened up, and this was when the USSR was well on top. That is why it is beleived that it may have been opened up in order to halt the USSR, in as much it as it was to defeat the Nazis. I'll admit you defeated the Japanese, but as I said in the previous argument, the Italians and the German forces stationed in North Africa were deafeated largely by commonwealth forces, again your contribution was crucial, but not as signigificant as I'm sure you'd like to beleive, but why am I even bothering, Americans want to beleive the single handly won WW2, and nobody is going to convince them of anything different."Imagine if the Russians had to fight both the Germans and the Japanese"You didn't have fight the Germans, the USSR did, 90% of all German forces were defeated on the Eastern front, by the USSR!!!"it would have been a completely different story."This is beginning to feel futile."Not to mention the massive economic contribution the US gave to the allied forces in WWII,"As I said in mr argument, you supplied the USSR in order to keep the blood flowing on both sides, nobody ever expected the Soviets to actually beat the Nazis."Factor into that the supplies that the US denied German forces, the planes it shot down, the tanks it destroyed, the industrial plants it bombed, the Sea vessels it sunk. "Why not try factoring into your equation the fact the USSR single handedly beat the Third Reich, 90% of their total losses were inflicted on the Eastern front, you really are clutching at straws."The USSR is underrated I think, but it still doesn't quite compare."This should read:The US is greatly overrated I think, but this consensus only seems to exist among US citizens (surprise, surprise), but in reality, although their contribution was crucial in ending the war in a timely fashion, and soundly deafeating the Axis forces, the part they played is probably only slightly more significant than Britains (given that the US entered the war so late), and was in fact, completely eclipsed by the USSR.