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

"Yes, in the span of five minutes you can find every quote Stalin ever said"I can assure if Stalin had ever made an official statement like that in public it would not be very hard to find."you don't need all that time real historians need to find something such as this"What the hell are you talking about, I found the origin of the statement, it was from a Krushchevs memoirs, just like on the other debate you completely neglect anything that is overtly detrimental to your position. If you think Stalin made that statement then the burden of proof rest squarely on your shoulders, I have already done more than enough to discredit by finding the actual source of the statement, i.e.Source of quote: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=61570  "O yes, because the other two main backers (France and Britain), put up such a strong resistance. France was engulfed be Germany in a few weeks, Britain was being bombed to bits, they were being dominated completely in the air. They were soon to fall, but the U.S. intervened and gave Britain the supplies. Churchill knew this, which is why he said "Give us the tools and we'll finish the job."This whole argument really doesn't dispute anything I said."Yes, but also, the fact is that they received significant amounts of supplies from the U.S. during this time, in which they could of very well lost Stalingrad."And if if's and but's were candy and nut's we'd all be a lot better off. There is more reason to beleive the USSR would have won at Stalingrad, than there is to doubt it. You see the munitions and military equipment supplied by the US to the USSR (in particular) were crucial for the USSR in defeating Germany on eastern front (which effectively won the war), but the majority of their war machine was produced from the industrialization of the Urals and central Asia.You see when the Nazis invaded originally they temporarily destroyed the Soviet industrial economy, and thus capacity to produce military hardware, but the Soviets had moved their essential industrial machinary ahead of the invading army. Nobody would try to argue that this above all else was the primary factor in the Soviet victory against the Nazis. Once they had re-established their industry beyond the Ural Mountains, they began to produce tanks, trucks artillery, etc., and that is precisely when they began to push the Germans back.You see, american aid made a massive difference to the Soviets, there's no doubt about that, it allowed the USSR to build up their army far more rapidly than would otherwise have been the case, but another fact that is nearly always overlooked is the existence of the nationalised planned economy and stalins 5 yr plan, barbaric as it was on the Soviet people, it really worked well in a time of crisis, it facilitated the rapid build up their military and industrial capacity. i.e. "In 1943 alone, the USSR produced 130,000 pieces of artillery, 24,000 tanks and self-propelled guns, 29,900 combat aircraft. The Nazis, with all the huge resources of Europe behind them, also stepped up production, turning out 73,000 pieces of artillery, 10,700 tanks and assault guns and 19,300 combat aircraft." (See V. Sipols, The Road to a Great Victory, p. 132.)