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

"I didn't know it was possible for an opinion to be "wrong.""Well now you know, glad to be of service;-)But seriously, my response was largely an overreaction to your comment:"It's not even close". I mean claiming that it's not even close for the US is simply ahistorical."I'll let raptor argue that"He isn't doing too well in my humble opinion."Either way, it is all but irrelevant"I don't beleive so."Even assuming you are correct "If you mean the statement you are disputing, then yes, I am correct, as it is a matter of historical accuracy."which you are not"""T-34 tanks and Katyusha rocket launchers led the way for the fresh Russian soldiers, some of whom donned the white winter camouflage that became the subject of nightmares to the freezing retreating German troops. By 7 Jan 1942, the front lines were driven back anywhere between 100km to 250km. German forces would never again threaten Moscow directly for the rest of the war."Source: http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=37  Keep in mind, this was before any aid had reached the USSR."battling less than half of the german army with tens of millions of soldiers "Actually, they battled the overwhleming majority of the German army on the Eastern front for the overwhelming majority of the war, the Allies wanted the Germans and Soviets to destroy themselves so they delayed opening up the second front until they had bled themselves dry, and one had come out the voctor, you really can't argue with the statistic that they caused 88% (overall) of all German casualities in the war, this kind of flies in the face of your claim that they fought only 1/2 the german army i.e."A study of Barbarossa allows an appreciation of the role of grave eminence which the Soviet Union played in the defeat of Nazi Germany; the operation resulted in 95% of the German Army casualties from 1941 to 1944"Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa Please try to keep in mind that the majority of these casualities were inflicted before a single US soldier lost his life. And also, remember that the US had far more support on the Pacific then the USSR did on the Eastern front.The US sat on the sidelines for the majority of the war, and was thus, one of the only powerful countries not to be decimated by it, it then swooped in at the end to provide the final push, and to this day the majority of its citizens beleive that entitles them to claim the glory."isn't nearly as formidable of an enemy as all of the Japanese armed forces."Are you serious? I have never seen anyone try to dispute the superiority of Japanese forces over Nazi Germany in WW2, Germany were superior to all other forces, almost everyone acknowledges the superiority of Nazi Germany, all sides knew it represented by far the greatest threat. I have never heard a historian try to claim otherwise, granted, certain armies had certain advantages over the Germans, most notably the superior British Navy, but overall, the Wehrmacht was a uniquely powerful force for its day, and was completely unmatched, is it hadn;t overexerted itself it could have easily retained the whole of Europe.Even Roosevelt knew in 1940 that Germany represented a greater strategic threat than Japan to US security (let alone Europe or the USSR), i.e. "Despite the importance of those early battles in the Pacific, America's war strategy was "Europe first." Germany, American war planners recognised, was the greater threat to the US than Japan"Source: "A People and a Nation: since 1865", Volume 2, 7th Ed., Pg. 743Available at: http://books.google.ie/books?id=vq0ROs8GVfAC&pg=PA743&lpg=PA743&dq=US+believed+Germany+was+a+greater+threat+then+japan&source=bl&ots=A8MvI_b3ZK&sig=sqUEg0nRmsfUWhjihRsqiHSRaEU&hl;=en&sa=X&ei=vItGT_r8MNOHhQfu972WDg&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=US%20believed%20Germany%20was%20a%20greater%20threat%20then%20japan&f=false