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

Given that this site is primarily populated by US citizens, this debate question is never going to get a fair, unbiased, and objective response.I have argued this plenty of times before, firstly, I will say that the war could not have been won in the manner in which it eventually was won without US intervention, US intervention was decisive, but the USSR fought the Germans single handedly for most of the war, for their efforts they lost approximately 25 million of their citizens on the eastern front, they took on the Germans single handedly and won. I have seen estimates that say 90% of all the Russian men between the age of 18-25 (or something like that), were killed in the war, i.e. ""The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II ""The battles on the Eastern Front constituted the largest military confrontation in history","The Eastern Front was decisive in determining the outcome of World War II, eventually serving as the main reason for Germany's defeat.""It resulted in the destruction of the Third Reich, the partition of Germany 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_ %20output #Industrial_%20output)It is well known that prior to the start of the second world war, the British and the Americans feared the USSR a lot more than they did the Germans, remember what facism is, it is state controlled capitalism (often withTTotalitarian and authoritarian overtones), so is it ridiculous that the US and Britain would feel more comfortable with Hitler than with Stalin, that they would feel more warmth and have more affinity for Hitler regime than that of Stalin's prior to the start of the war? This is clearly illustrated by an excerpt from a famous Orwell Essay; "THE LION AND THE UNICORN: SOCIALISM AND THEENGLISH GENIUS (1941)", "The British ruling class were not altogether wrong in thinking thatFascism was on their side. It is a fact that any rich man, unless he is aJew, has less to fear from Fascism than from either Communism ordemocratic Socialism. One ought never to forget this, for nearly thewhole of German and Italian propaganda is designed to cover it up. Thenatural instinct of men like Simon, Hoare, Chamberlain etc. was to cometo an agreement with Hitler. But--and here the peculiar feature ofEnglish life that I have spoken of, the deep sense of nationalsolidarity, comes in--they could only do so by breaking up the Empireand selling their own people into semi-slavery. A truly corrupt classwould have done this without hesitation, as in France. But things had notgone that distance in England."This was one of the reasons Hitler was ignored while he re-constructed the German military apparatus, which was accomplished with the help of unbiased free markets whose resources and commodities only go were the most profit is to be made, it well known that UK, US, and French resources were used to rebuild up the German army.Remember also that Hitler attacked the USSR in 1941, yet a second front wasn't opened up by the US and Uk until 1944. People like WW2 because they view as a nice clean war, a good stroy to tell the kids and all the brainwashed masses, you know, good (the US and UK) vs. evil (Hitler), this plays well with people, it's simple, but it ditracts from the reality of what really transpired.It is well known that the UK and US beleived Hitler would vanquish the USSR (as hitler beleived as well), this is why the US supplied the USSR with aid (i.e. to keep the blood flowing on both sides), it wasn't an altruistic move as some would try to portray it. The truth is the USSR terrified the West almost as much as Hitler i.e.""Along an 1,800-mile front, 4.5 million soldiers of Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its allies commenced Operation Barbarossa, launching themselves against Stalin’s Communist regime. At the time, not many gave the Soviet Union much chance of survival, and the results of the first few months of fighting seemed to bear out those estimations.""Churchill, who despised Stalin and was keenly aware of the threat Communism posed to the free world, was once called to account for his support of the Soviet Union in World War II. He replied, “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.” Roosevelt, meanwhile, never forwent an opportunity to materially and morally prop up the Soviets and “Uncle Joe,” as he naïvely referred to Stalin. Simply put, Britain and the United States were only too happy to see Europe’s two great totalitarian powers bleed themselves white on the plains of Central Europe."Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270187/operation-barbarossa-jim-lacey The Soviet war mahince was a juggernaut and it is widely beleived that the second front Stalin had been begging for since 1941 was opened up when it was partly due to fear that the USSR wouldn't simply stop when it got to Germany, and would instead continue to engulf the rest of Europe under the Iron Curtain.""The outstanding fact [that] has to be noted is the recent phenomenal development of the heretofore latent Russian military and economic strength – a development which seems certain to prove epochal in its bearing on future politico-military international relationships, and which is yet to reach the full scope attainable with Russian resources." (FRUS, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, pp. 107-8.)"So, in summation, the US role in WW2 should not be underestimated, without the US presence, and US aid, it is very likely the war would have dragged on, and it is likely Hitler would not have been soundly defeated in the manner in which he was, but, by the same token, the role of the US should not be overestimated, adn this is something that almost every american I've ever ecountered tends to do, if any country can be said to have deafeated the Nazis, it is the USSR, their contribution simply eclipsed that of all the others.