| Have you red it? My point by marshal USSR Georgy Zhukov on Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 [1]: > By the combined efforts of the great powers of the USSR, USA, UK fascist Germany was defeated in the ashes That victory was rebirth of USSR. Heroes returned home, no way to rule them as before. But wounds were not allowed to heal, 9 May become day of "we were attacked, still plenty of enemies around". Russians, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Georgians, Moldovan (and many others) fought together. USSR attacked Czechoslovakia, Russia attacked Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine. Somehow your counterexample is loss and contribution. I never said there was not. > "turning the tide for the Russians^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H USSR" By USSR census Russians 53%, Ukrainians 21%, even Slavs would be incorrect - 78%. Census 1937 [3] was not published because of the man-made famine [4] consequences. Official position - there was no such thing. Hardly anyone knows about occupation of Poland [5], Baltic states [6] and War with Finland [7]. Could they have won war alone? No. Germans occupied a lot of industrial territories with Blitzkrieg, not enough time to restart factories [8]. Without support there would be no Moscow and Stalingrad. There would be guerilla war but that's not enough. Back to topic. In Russia it is believed that after taking Berlin soldiers should have fought Allies. That's liberation war for you. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gzZoVm-joc&t=20m23s [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1926) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Census_(1937) [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_state... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_in_the_Soviet_Union |
And they were not the only ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable