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carcinoma_kid t1_ja7tugw wrote

Reply to comment by PrettyText in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus

>While the UK was obviously important in WW2, frankly its role is a bit overstated while the Soviet Union’s role is a bit understated

I would say ‘a bit’ is an understatement in itself. The British lost 800,000 soldiers. The Americans lost 400,000. The Soviets lost possibly up to 14,000,000. Only one in 5 Russian men born in 1926 lived past 1945. They absolutely won the war for the Allies, and did so with unimaginable losses.

Edit: corrected numbers

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Pale__Face t1_ja7vw2o wrote

Eh. Feeding men into machine gun fire is not that impressive.

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carcinoma_kid t1_ja7ygmn wrote

Stopping the Nazi war machine dead in its tracks and fighting them tooth and nail all the way back to Berlin is pretty impressive

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HoNose t1_ja8n6rd wrote

The Soviets lost 27,000,000 citizens. They lost 8-14,000,000 soldiers.

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