Tragic, misguided, unjust and ungrateful is the attitude of today's Russia, like the Soviet Union before it, which insists that it won World War II alone and that the participation of the other Allies was negligible.
Continuing the same propaganda work for internal consumption, but also to feed satellites and followers, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Normandy Landings did not have a decisive role in the development of World War II and that participation of the Allies in the war is overrated...
What ingratitude... The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs forgets that Stalin already in 1941 was asking for the creation of a second front as the Germans had destroyed everything in their path and had literally melted the opposing Soviet forces. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs forgets that without the material reinforcement of the Western Allies, the Germans would have reached even deeper into the USSR, perhaps as far as Siberia.
He forgets that without the US almost 60% of Soviet aircraft simply could not fly due to lack of aviation fuel. In total the Americans gave the Soviets:11,400 aircraft, 7,000 tanks, 6,303 other armored vehicles, 427,284 trucks and jeeps, 35,170 motorcycles, 2,328 other general purpose vehicles, 2,670,371 tons of petroleum products – including 57.8% of of aviation fuel used by the Red Air Force.
In total, Britain delivered to the Soviets over 7,000 aircraft, 27 small ships, 5,218 tanks, over 5,000 anti-tank guns, 4,020 ambulances and other general purpose trucks. Also awarded were 323 mobile crew lorries, over 2,500 light armored carriers, 1,721 motorcycles, 1,474 radars, 4,338 radios, 600 naval radars and sounding devices, aircraft engines worth £1.15 billion at the time , naval guns and a total of 4 million tons of supplies and war material, even 15 million pairs of boots.
He forgets that some of the best fighters of the USSR were… American! Russia forgets, as Stalin wanted to forget and make the Soviet citizens forget, that without the vehicles granted to them they could not even advance, let alone logistically support their fighting forces.
They forget that one of the reasons the Soviet Winter Offensive was so successful in January 1945 was the involvement of 50+ German divisions on the Western Front. If these forces were available on the Eastern Front do they really believe in Moscow that they would reach the gates of Berlin?
And Moscow mentions Stalingrad, but forgets El Alamein and Tunisia, where over 400,000 Axis soldiers also perished. He also forgets that Normandy was the third front... The second one you had already opened in Italy, since the summer of 1943 and had excluded an Axis partner.
Finally, Moscow forgets that the Western Allies, alongside the Germans, were also fighting the Japanese, against whom the glorious Red Army did not fire a rifle, until August 1945, when everything was decided.