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Yep, I'm leaning this way too.


As for genocide in the Ukraine, it doesn't matter whether or not there were natural factors resulting in a small harvest. The Ukraine still produced enough to feed itself, but they couldn't feed themselves because Moscow took their food. It really is that simple. Stalin was a bad guy.


Rick, I agree with everything you've put up in this thread except for this:




It's true that technically the Soviets were fighting a one-front war against Germany, but that front was by far the single biggest battlefront ever in the history of mankind. Nothing else comes close to it. Most sources say that the Germans had between 80%-90% of their military on their Eastern Front. The sheer size of that front should, in my opinion, qualify as three fronts. It was so large that the Germans needed three separate logistical networks to supply it.


If the Soviets hadn't put up the fight they did, Overlord never would have happened and we probably would have had a negotiated peace with Germany. I think calling it a single front downplays the Soviet military contribution to the eventual Allied victory.


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