A little help? *cough*
Stalin himself pushed the Western Allies to invade in France as he knew that without the invasion the job of the Red Army would be more than difficulty to parry Hitlers troops.
Hilarious !!!!
Where was the Red Army at the time the Allies ( belatedly ) invaded France
Here is where
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Wehrmacht planners were convinced that the Soviets would attack again in the south, where the front was fifty miles from
Lviv and offered the most direct route to
Berlin. Accordingly they stripped troops from Army Group Centre, whose front still protruded deep into the Soviet Union. The Germans had transferred some units to France to counter the
invasion of Normandy two weeks before. The Belorussian Offensive (codenamed
Operation Bagration), which began on 22 June 1944, was a massive Soviet attack, consisting of four Soviet army groups totaling over 120 divisions that smashed into a thinly held German line. They focused their massive attacks on Army Group Centre, not Army Group North Ukraine as the Germans had originally expected. More than 2.3 million Soviet troops went into action against German Army Group Centre, which boasted a strength of fewer than 800,000 men. At the points of attack, the numerical and quality advantages of the Soviets were overwhelming: the Red Army achieved a ratio of ten to one in tanks and seven to one in
aircraft over their enemy. The Germans crumbled. The capital of
Belarus,
Minsk, was taken on 3 July, trapping some 100,000 Germans. Ten days later the Red Army reached the prewar
Polish border.
Bagration was by any measure, one of the largest single operations of the war. By the end of August 1944, it had cost the Germans ~400,000 dead, wounded, missing and sick, from whom 160,000 were captured, as well as 2,000 tanks and 57,000 other vehicles. In the operation, the Red Army lost ~180,000 dead and missing (765,815 in total, including wounded and sick plus 5,073 Poles),
[57] as well as 2,957 tanks and assault guns. The
offensive at Estonia claimed another 480,000 Soviet soldiers, 100,000 of them classed as dead.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
Maybe Stalin did not want any more Soviet soldiers and citizens killed than was necessary - but that would not fulfil the standard westerm narrative of him as a ..what was it.. a SOCIOPATH ( no medical diagnosis needed of course)
Comrade Stalin
Suing for Peace on the Ukrainian Front