The opinion in France reversed after reconstruction. Immediately after V-E, there was a strong opinion that the Soviets did the most to win the war: https://www.france24.com/en/20190601-who-won-wwii-russias-ro...
Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
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Re: Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
#12In Brazil, a country heavily influenced by US culture, people will carefully explain you how the US won the Vietnam war.
Re: Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
#13In Brazil, a country heavily influenced by US culture, people will carefully explain you how the US won the Vietnam war.
People in the US don't even say that..... thats the primary one considered a loss.
Re: Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
#14Because they were on the winning side? War is a team sport.
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#15Life was hard in those days.
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#16Because the US emerged with supreme reserve currency status, supported by its reconstruction approach? To the victor go the spoils.
Arguably, the USSR also got lots of the spoils and emerged a super power.
Re: Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
#17The Headline misses the second half of the question, "because the USSR killed 75% of German Soldiers in WW2".
KIA/Casualties are just one metric. You would expect the long war of attrition and many Pyrrhic victories on the Eastern front to have a high cost of human life, that doesn't necessarily equate to strategic impact.
The saying is... Churchill gave the time, Roosevelt gave the money and Stalin gave the Blood.
Re: Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
#18I got to learn "the other side" of the story, after meeting a few people from nations marketed as our "arch enemies". I became extremely disappointed that history is never a recollection of facts, rather a narrative to cater to national propaganda.
Yeah I travel a lot, it is surprising how different the facts are. Its like Animal Farm but expanding the universe to a different farm.
It can be subtle differences like "Serbia starting WW1" versus "Austria starting WW1"
or it can be major consequential differences
Re: Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
#19Because it sort of did in that they provided support for UK and even the USSR that might have tipped the balance, not to mention operations in Africa.
But really it's because there was a deliberate and concerted effort to erase the USSR's role in defeating the Nazis in western europe, after say 1960. Through public education, and general coverage in medias/fil/documentaries. The US cultural hegemony is real :)
It started earlier, but at the time when the Communist Party was at 30% in a lot of countries and 90% of the workers where in unions the disinformation worked very poorly.
Re: Why do people think that the US won WW2 in Europe?
#20That reminds me of this video[1], where Americans are asked questions you'd think they'd easily be able to answer. Such as... Q: Who won the Vietnam war? A: We did. Wait, were we even in the Vietnam war? Q: How many sides does a triangle have? A: Damn. Four. A: There's no sides... One? Q: How many World Wars have there been? A: Three. Q: What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki known for? A: Judo-wrestling? [1] - https://www.…
well, this makes me think hmm, I know all the answers to those questions, but I've never been asked in one of those surveys of people walking on the street when living in the U.S - but if I had been.... would I have been put on this funny TV segment?