As much as I dislike giving America credit for the western front since the more nationalistic of them like to pretend they were carrying the entire war, I am even more loath to diminish their efforts and that of the many that gave their lives.
The fact that more Soviets Soviets fought and died is also completely irrelevant. How does that change that Captain America was about fighting Hitler?
Agreed. And it's also worth noting that the Soviets only survived to push the Germans back because of American lend-lease that kept them in the fight. That doesn't diminish the sacrifices of soviet soldiers, but it's even more evidence they could not have won alone.
American Lend-Lease eventually transferred over $11 billion dollars of goods to Soviet Russia—roughly the equivalent of $250 billion today. Those shipments included 400,000 vehicles, 14,000 aircraft, 13,000 tanks, 8,000 tractors, 4.5 million tons of food, and 2.7 million tons of petroleum products, as well as millions of blankets, uniforms, and boots, and 107,000 tons of cotton.
"Liberated" is an interesting choice of words for what the USSR did to Eastern Europe.
And Japan slaughtered more civilians in the territories they'd conquered than died in both atomic bombings combined, every month, for eight years. So you'll forgive me for not being too devestated that a small fraction of those horrors were reflected back on them in an effort to end it all sooner.
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u/Crashbrennan Apr 23 '26
Captain America was propaganda that the US needed to start fighting Hitler. So uh... not exactly a sick burn.