[eitland]

> As an aside, I wonder if there exist an Slavic-language HN where Eastern Europeans argue that American steel was the true winner in the war and the Soviets don't deserve glory...

At least it is sure that many of them wished the Americans had liberated them, not Soviet.

The USSR for all its achievements was a harsh place to be for everyone except the luckiest ones.

"In America there is huge differences between rich and poor - in USSR everyone is equally poor".