[generj]

The broadly accepted view is that the USSR won their front of the war using American supplies and Russian blood. And that the western fronts would have been far worse except for the Eastern front bleeding Germany dry.

The US won against Japan essentially without help from the USSR.

[theironhammer]

I would agree and add that the American and British soldiers were "lions lead by donkeys" and if not for the might of the American industrial machine supplying materiél the superior trained and leas German forces would've at least prevailed much longer than they did.

[frozencell]

Fun facts: - Wall Street partly funded the Russian communism revolution.