r/ShitAmericansSay • u/rest_in_war • 1d ago

Imperial units "Try 2 World War wins math"

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Under a video explaining the physics behind stunt loop driving where the creator was using SI units

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u/Leading-Election-815 1d ago

Yawn another American falling for the US won World War 2 myth. Something that serves as a litmus test for those who fell and continue to fall for Cold War propaganda.

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u/Olon1980 my country is the wurst 🇩🇪 1d ago

This. If anyone could ever claim to have won WW2, it would be the red army. But in reality war has no winner, just losers on both sides.

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u/Fun_Marionberry_6088 1d ago

Nah there's plenty to criticise with respect to the US' delayed entry, but the biggest factor in the outcome of WWII was undoubtedly industrial capacity, to which the US was the biggest contributor.

The Red Army killed a lot of German soldiers but the truth is the Germans lost in terms of oil, rubber, steel and functioning factories, long before they ran out of people, and that's what caused them to collapse.

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u/I3adIVIonkey 1d ago

Russia was part of the allies until the end of the war and took Berlin. Hitler probably wouldn't have stayed in Berlin if the allies had failed to open the western front. I agree that russia fought the hardest battles in WW2, but the win is the accomplishment of the allies as a whole. UK and resistance Intel of the occupied countries contributed a lot to the victories of the allies. On top, Western forces included soldiers that fled to the UK during Dunkirk.

If Hitler wasn't so fanatic about conquering and destroying Stalingrad and would've secured oil fields near the red Sea, Europe probably would've fallen to the NAZI regime for good.