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B.Timer
#1 Posted : Friday, June 06, 2014 2:53:03 PM
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But while many in the West see D-Day as the decisive turning point in the conflict, conversations in the Russian capital on Thursday reflected a widely held view here that the Soviet Union had already turned the tide of the war, in which it lost more than 20 million people, and would have prevailed on its own.


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Her grandson Maxim Krylov, 11, chimed in: "If not for our Red Army and for all our troops we, Russians, would not be standing here now."

In a schoolchildren's encyclopedia on sale in central Moscow, the opening of the western front is dealt with in just half a sentence, in a four-page entry on the Great Patriotic War: "In the meantime the allies had opened a second front in Europe, but Soviet forces had captured the initiative in the offensive on Germany."


Dunia ni msongamano..
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deadpoet
#2 Posted : Friday, June 06, 2014 2:57:34 PM
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Versus? Erm, WW2 and the Great Patriotic War are the same thing - the latter is what is used by the Russians for the conflict.

This is similar to how the Chinese record how WW2 began with the Japanese invasion of the country in 1937.
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Muriel
#3 Posted : Friday, June 06, 2014 3:01:20 PM
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I would agree.
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Muriel
#4 Posted : Friday, June 06, 2014 3:03:57 PM
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Muriel wrote:
I would agree.


That the Soviets indeed did beat back the fuhrer.
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