From: Adam Flinton 

Jeff Shultz wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:03:40 +0000, Adam Flinton wrote:
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>
>>Jeff Shultz wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:40:10 -0400, Gary Wiltshire wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:16:29 -0400, Monte Davis
>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>>>Why did we supply Stalin?
>>>>>
>>>>>Uhh, because at the time his team was doing most of the
killing of our
>>>>>#1 enemy?
>>>>>
>>>>>-Monte
>>>>
>>>>While we were busy killing the enemy the Soviets didn't
declare war on
>>>>until the end of the Pacific war.
>>>
>>>
>>>They hadn't been attacked by the Japanese, the Japanese were smart
>>>enough not to invade Siberia, and quite honestly, everyone recognized
>>>the Soviets had enough on their plate with the Eastern Front.
>>>
>>>Russia also had no navy of note, and the war in the Pacific was largely
>>>a naval war. Yes, they could have been fighting in Manchuria, but would
>>>it have made a difference?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Yes. Massive. Being chucked out of China would have destroyed the East
>>Asian Co-prosperity sphere bollox stone dead. They would then have
>>probably chucked em out of Korea etc too.
>>
>>Adam
>
>
> Again, there was that certain problem of the Eastern front taking priority..
> From what I understand, it wasn't won by strength of tactics, but by
> simple logistics - the Russians simply ground the Germans under by having
> massively more people and equipment (eventually) to toss at them.
>
>

Don't forget the Great General Winter.

However it should be pointed out that the Red Army got to be very very good
by fighting the cream of the German forces.

The easy example of this is the way the Red Army simply rolled up the
Japanese Army in China at the tail end of the war.

Adam

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