From: "Robert Comer" 

> Huh? Mark's Original comment was:

I was ignoring Mark's comments -- I didn't agree with them any more than I
agreed with you.

I was only focusing on your posing that Russia won the war all by its lonesome self.

> So where was your comment then? The Red Army took on & defeated the vast
> bulk of the Wehrmacht. over 75% or their losses.

Only because the western front was there too.

> & yet Mark witters on from his usual position of ignorance about
"we the
> west" winning WW2 where it is much more accurate to say
"They the East"
> won WW2.

You both are just as wrong.

--
Bob Comer


"Adam"  wrote in message
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> Robert Comer wrote:
>>> it is a matter of historical record.
>>
>> No, it's not, Germany wasn't fighting just one enemy, resources were
>> stretched, if Germany had been able to focus all it's resources on the
>> eastern front, Russia would have lost it's 2 major cities before the
>> first winter, and it would have been downhill from there.  After claim
>> the major cities, Germany would have had time to just sit out the
>> winter...
>>
>>> "The Eastern Front was by far the largest and bloodiest
theatre of World
>>> War II, and generally accepted as the most costly conflict in human
>>> history at anywhere from 25-30 million dead as a result. It involved
>>> more land combat than all other World War II theatres combined. "
>>
>> **ONLY** because the western front was there too.  It's just plain silly
>> to not look at it as a whole,
>>
>
> Huh? Mark's Original comment was:
>
> ""Geo"  wrote in message
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> > > "Mark"  wrote in message
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> > >
> >> >> I don't necessarily disagree with that Geo., but don't forget
> that Israel
> >> >> represents the freedom won in WWII; they exist only because we
> won WWII.
> > >
> > > *We* didn't win the war, everyone on the side we were on won the war,
> > > that's
> > > why it was called a *world* war..
>
> Thanks for pointing out that ambiguity Geo., what I meant by *we* was the
> west in general. Adam's right too it was a mistake to let the Soviet Union
> survive, but I kind of doubt there was much will toward fixing that at the
> time -- as good as it would have been in retrospect.
> "
>
>
> So where was your comment then? The Red Army took on & defeated the vast
> bulk of the Wehrmacht. over 75% or their losses.
>
> & yet Mark witters on from his usual position of ignorance about
"we the
> west" winning WW2 where it is much more accurate to say
"They the East"
> won WW2.
>
> Adam
>

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