Did USSR receive Allied supply via Pacific?

[TrailblazingScot]

The US' great achievement in the war was not taking Europe from Hitler, but keeping Stalin out.

Didn't keep Stalin out of nearly enough as the Americans were far too concerned about damaging the British Empire and not antagonising Russia. Roosevelt really needed to stand shoulder to shoulder with Churchill and at the very least demand Polish independence of Moscow, instead they won the War at the least possible cost.

 

[NKVD]

Certainly, however when you make comments like "gee thanks guys" it rather implies to me that you're belittling the Atlantic route and those involved in keeping it open. Stating that the Atlantic route wasn't statistically the main one throughout the war is fine in my book, crossing the line to belittling it is insulting.

no it were the guys that said Atlantic received more...they tell things in every thread without knowing anything in some...I was not talking about the ones in the artic... They did a great job.

It was the USSR who in alliance with the Reich invaded Poland and to all Russians WW2 began in 1941, not 1939.

It was the Western Allies who destroyed Germany’s capacity to conduct a war. And it was the USA who were the industrial powerhouse of the war, and while fighting the Western Axis powers were also fighting the Japanese (with the UK and Commonwealth forces).

Numbers of deaths and the military deployment are only a small part of the story. You cannot talk of Stalingrad without talking about El Alemein. Kursk was indeed a huge battle that broke the back of the Reich in the East, but Normandy signalled the start of a 3 front war for the Reich and was the real beginning of the end.

As an aside, it would be a mistake to discount the blow the USSR would have suffered it Moscow had fallen. It was the world centre of Communism; it contained the centres of Soviet power and prestige. Imagine how it would have played with wavering nations within the Axis to see Fascists parading down Red Square. Imagine how it would have looked to the Soviet people.

USSR invaded Poland because Poland fighted a war prior to WW2 and cpatured some soviet cities...they wanted them back.

Allies desotrying productioncapacity of germany ? by 1941 even before the germans were near Moscow the Soviet were producing way more planes and tanks than Germans. There were little industries in Moscow or in Leningrad left...it was cities from Nizhny Novgorod to Cheyabinsk who were producing. Sure the Allies helped but did not delivered Europe...as late as Russian entered the war against Japan. Hilter never talked about 3 fronts...Africa was not important.
El Alamein ? Hitler had only 100 000 men there with 500 tanks...
Hitler sent 3,350 tanks and 3.2 millions men for the 3 groups(excluding Romanian italians hungary forces) ...c'mon it makes me laugh

If you think the End for hitler was when Allies beach-headed in Normandy. Gemans Generals would have thought you are as optimistic as Hitler. if you exclude Group South both North and moscow Group have been stopped as soon as december 1941. I believe Army General Dušan Simović did more for Russia by delaying Hilter by 4 weeks.

Soviet were already on the borders of Germany when Normandy happened...In our canadian schools they teach us about how we, the Allies liberated France and beat Hitler. you never hear of the russian accomplishment, sure it was the US who provided all their tanks and rifles! When you actually read books from around the world (meaning non american authors) you really understand who beat Hitler...

 

[joycem10]

USSR invaded Poland because Poland fighted a war prior to WW2 and cpatured some soviet cities...they wanted them back.

Id be interested to hear your justification for the annexation of the Baltic states and the Winter War with Finland.

 

[Reno]

USSR invaded Poland because Poland fighted a war prior to WW2 and cpatured some soviet cities...they wanted them back.

Ugh, the war in 1924...? (or some other year, but the 1920's none the less...) Those areas that they took belong to Poland-Lithuania (if you go back hundreds of years) and it was Russia that took them from Poland. Those areas were populated by Ukrainians and Belo-Russians. The area belong to Tsarist Russia, yes. How could it possibly belong to the Soviet Union? And no, if anyone deserved to have that land, it was either the Byelo-Russians, Ukraininas, Lithuanians, Poles and finally the last Russian power to hold that land, Tsarist Russia. Soviet-Russia did not have any justification for the land there, as it gave up those lands in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

 

[NKVD]

I never said it was justified...or good.
I'm not russian so WW2 began in 1939 in my head.

Joycem because Baltic and Finland had WMD...it was a preventive strike...lol
I have as much proof as you country had about Iraq.

 

[MattII]

Makes me wonder how any sea trade could get through the Korean Straits (if that's the way it came through. Most intelligent way it seems to me would be through the northern part of the Kuril Island chain/Kurilskiye Ostrova (ps. using an atlas printed back in '81) and down through the Sakhalin-Mainland gap (what ever you call it).

Any other ways look like bringing it in Spitfire range of the Japanese mainland.

 

[privatehudson]

no it were the guys that said Atlantic received more...they tell things in every thread without knowing anything in some...I was not talking about the ones in the artic... They did a great job.

There's no justification in replying to some people's lack of knowledge by belittling vetrans efforts. I can't see any other way to take the comment you made frankly. Whichever route it's directed at the comment is still insulting to my mind.

Allies desotrying productioncapacity of germany ? by 1941 even before the germans were near Moscow the Soviet were producing way more planes and tanks than Germans.

It's quite clear that the Russians weren't providing enough to combat the Germans and more importantly couldn't provide enough because throughout the war they still had to rely on vast amounts of western equipment. Outproducing you enemy is fine... as long as that advantage is enough, which it clearly wasn't.

 

[Point]

Does anyone notice the irony in the fact that the whole thing started over poland being invaded, after it had all finished, poland was still occupied

 

[Cullyn]

no it were the guys that said Atlantic received more...they tell things in every thread without knowing anything in some...I was not talking about the ones in the artic... They did a great job.

USSR invaded Poland because Poland fighted a war prior to WW2 and cpatured some soviet cities...they wanted them back.

Allies desotrying productioncapacity of germany ? by 1941 even before the germans were near Moscow the Soviet were producing way more planes and tanks than Germans. There were little industries in Moscow or in Leningrad left...it was cities from Nizhny Novgorod to Cheyabinsk who were producing. Sure the Allies helped but did not delivered Europe...as late as Russian entered the war against Japan. Hilter never talked about 3 fronts...Africa was not important.
El Alamein ? Hitler had only 100 000 men there with 500 tanks...
Hitler sent 3,350 tanks and 3.2 millions men for the 3 groups(excluding Romanian italians hungary forces) ...c'mon it makes me laugh

If you think the End for hitler was when Allies beach-headed in Normandy. Gemans Generals would have thought you are as optimistic as Hitler. if you exclude Group South both North and moscow Group have been stopped as soon as december 1941. I believe Army General Dušan Simović did more for Russia by delaying Hilter by 4 weeks.

Soviet were already on the borders of Germany when Normandy happened...In our canadian schools they teach us about how we, the Allies liberated France and beat Hitler. you never hear of the russian accomplishment, sure it was the US who provided all their tanks and rifles! When you actually read books from around the world (meaning non american authors) you really understand who beat Hitler...

Well first off I’m not in North America, I’m in Ireland. My reading material would include a hell of a lot of authors from around the world, including a lot of stuff actually published during the war (they are fascinating reads, the propaganda books published by the UK). My history education was also very broad and the accomplishments of all the allied nations were examined in detail. I think also if you read a lot of Russian authors you will find that they also exaggerate the prowess and accomplishments of the Red Army. Lets be honest here, the Red Army had numbers and material, but in every other way the Wehrmacht were a supieror army, they simply did not have the logistical support needed to fight in the the vast USSR. Look at the opening months of the Russian campaingn, the Red Army was decimanted the Nazi’s. In the beginning the Wehrmacht had the number to detroy the Red Army. But the contiued destruction of the industrial centres of the Reich, the shoratge of essential suplies like fuel and steel and the onset of a brutal winter on an unprepared army and the continued poor logistical support requierd for such a large operation which allowed the Red Army to fight back. Indeed there is some
truth in the saying that the 2 Greatest Generals of WW2 for Russia were General January and February, as they had been in the time of the Grand Campaign

That aside I think I see where you are coming from, you have made one assumption about what defined the most important nations in the war, which is war material. Ok, so I understand you premise BUT it is fundamentally flawed. Numbers of planes and tanks are useless unless they have the support behind them; you know small unimportant things such as logistics, trained crews, fuel, ammunition, and clear chains of command.

The Battle of El Alamein preserved the Middle East as a source of oil for the UK, and equally denied it from the Axis. The North African Campaign soaked up material and men, some of Germany’s finest from operations in Russia. It also gave the UK a victory, and important moral boosting victory.

It also ended Italy as any sort of a useful ally for the Reich (not that the Italian Army were of any use to anyone that war) and kept the Suez Canal open.

As for Normandy, as I said it created a 3rd front. It eased the pressure on the Red army, it denied the Wehrmacht and sort of breathing space and it soaked up huge amounts of the Wehrmacht material. As for

….Soviet were already on the borders of Germany when Normandy happened...

, are you serious? The Red Army only entered Poland in mid July (D-Day, 6th June) with the Warsaw Rising starting on August 1st until October 2nd (ish).

Anyway, I am not in anyway discounting the USSR’s achievements in European Theatre of WW2, but the other main allies did a hell of a lot there as well. The USA & UK provided the material, the designs and the intelligence to seriously aid the USSR in the war.

And the USSR invaded Poland because Stalin was a megalomaniac totalitarian dictator who wanted to destroy Poland as a nation and subsume it into the USSR, I mean if he invaded Poland to “recover” lost territory, explain the Winter War with Finland. Poland was a means to an end. Stalin and Hitler were 2 sides of the same coin. (please nobody start the “Stalin was a great man” crap, he wasn’t, he was a thug who terrorised his country)



(I used wiki for reference out of ease and laziness, many of my own history books are alas out of print and difficult of find online..)

Does anyone notice the irony in the fact that the whole thing started over poland being invaded, after it had all finished, poland was still occupied

I think the term here should be Tragic

 

[Reno]

….Soviet were already on the borders of Germany when Normandy happened...

The first soviet troops to enter the 1939 border (before Polish invasion) of Germany were made in November and early december 1944. While the Soviet army attacked 'en masse into East Prussia and Germany proper as late as mid January 1945.