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Old 10th Sep 2010, 09:34
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Tankertrashnav
 
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Torque of the Devil

think that the Red Army might have something to say about your view!
Dont worry, most Russians are blissfully unaware of the fact that anyone took part in the war apart from the Red Army. Certainly on land they were a powerful force (although they would have been a lot more powerful if Stalin had not had thousands of their officers shot in the late 1930's), but the USSR's contribution to the air war was almost exclusively as a battlefield tactical air force in support of ground troops and she took practically no part in the strategic air offensive.

Do you honestly believe that Germany would have won had Bomber Command not laid waste to German cities?
Do you honestly maintain that the Red Army could have successfully invaded from the East had Bomber Command and the 8th Army Air Force not laid waste to the German industrial war machine, and equally importantly neutralised the Luftwaffe by early 1945? All this was done with no assistance from the Soviets, who completely ignore the fact in their own version of The Great Patriotic War.
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