What was the Soviet Union's contribution to WWII?

Answer 1

The Soviet Union was the major contributor to the defeat of Germany. Even if the United States and England had not opened up a western front, it is likely the Soviet Union would have defeated Germany eventually. The battles of Kursk and Stalingrad simply cost the Germans too many men, either killed or taken prisoner. The fighting between the Russians and the Germans was extremely brutal, and their hatred towards each other was intense. Any good general history of the war will give you the particular details, but for great accounts focusing on the Eastern Front, see John Erickson's two books, The Road to Stalingrad and The Road to Berlin.

Answer 2

Don't have any doubt who made the greatest contribution to the defeat of Nazism.
Without a doubt, the Soviet Union bore the brunt of World War II, wearing down Germany's war machine in a savage war of attrition. There can, however, be no talk of a "decisive" contribution. Why argue whether D-Day was more important than Stalingrad? Every nation, every man and every woman played their part, and great events were often decided by the heroism and sacrifice just a few men.
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Answer 3

The Soviet Union suffered enormous losses fighting Germany in WWII.
It's incorrect to say that the UK and USA 'opened up the western front.' Hitler, who wanted to achieve something Napoleon failed to do, opened up the eastern front and this was his downfall.

We often forget the Soviet part in the war. Whatever any one thinks of Stalin, the German army was stretched beyond it's capacity and this resulted in the allies (Soviet Union included) winning the war.

Answer 4

they supported Hitler at first when he invaded Poland (they divided it among the both of them) untill the Germans turned back and bit them in the a s s. The moment Hitler decided to invade russia (his greatest mistake as far as I'm concerned.) they waged full out war against the Germans. Stalin paid no attention to causalties and losses were enormous. The bloody battle at Stalingrad finally put a halt to the German advance and from that point on they did their part in driving the Germans back. Again at no regard to casualties. They were the ones to take Berlin and make an official end to the war.

Answer 5

The Soviets contributed little, if anything at all, the the WW2 battle field. In the first place, the soviets only pushed the Germans out of Russia because the Allies were pounding them in the West and invading them, they couldn't hold their gorund on two fronts and, the Soviets counted on this.
Hitler wanted to hold on to his German border at all costs and let the Eastern front go, the Soviets walked all over the Germans only because Hitler had to have the supplies and man power to stop the Allies in France and Belgium. He thought that once he set up a front with the Allies, he would then swing his tropps toward the Eastern front once again and stop the Soviets. However, the "battle of the bulge" didn't go well.

The Soviets didn't win by cunning, or manpower, they didn't win by military might or macinization. They had nothing, their forces were the poorest in the world. Hitler deserted his men, he left them to the Soviets to save his Germany from The Allies. He fought to the very end, thinking he would win.
The rest is history.

After the war the soviets jumped in and wated to grab the greatest treasures of all. Uncle Stalin wanted parts of Japan, somewhere he'd never been, and a large part of Europe. It almost started WW3 when he got slapped on the wrist and was told "no"
The soviets weren't even prepered for WW2, the U.S. and Great Britian supplied them with everything from food to military equipment. There was even a joke about the pillaging of the villages by the Soviets and the spread of STD's by the Soviet troops. A letter from Stalin himself was sent to the Embassador of the U.S. that due to poor pay the soldiers were allowed to pillage but, the spread of STD's were a problem and the Condoms sent by the U.S. were to large for the Soviet troops. The letter was forwarded to Eiesenhawer, then in charge of Europeon affairs, he sent Stalin a letter, disliking Stalin he stated "these condoms are a benefit from your friends in the U.S. and are the smallest we have"

My uncle was in the U.S. Air Force and, at the time ferried frieght to the Soviets from the U.S. along with hundreds of men and, yes, women, flying, war machines to the Soviets that had little to nothing to hold back the German advances.

Answer 6

They essentially won the war. They held their ground so well, for so long, at such a massive casualty cost ( to both sides)that they shifted the outcome of the war. If hitler had never pushed into Russia they may have won.

Answer 7

20 million souls.... The fate of the second world war rested on the outcome of Operation Barbarossa.

Answer 8

Not much at all really, except kill & wreck everything in Berlin in the late months of the war, including Raping Little girls to Old ladies, then you have Communism. Read Up, there is many bad things the good old USSR did, and basically got away with it. Remember they were with Germany in the beginning of the war including invading Poland, something that even after the war, no one did anything about, as they were now our so called allies. They even stayed in Poland well after the war finished, and many died cause of this, but nothing again was done. They made many eastern block countries into Russian Control countries, and really bought down these countries, which stuggled to make something of themselves, until the USSR Communism Died in the late 1980's.
Really what the Germans said when they knew it was over for them, was right, the Allies should have contiued into Russia and finished them off, but that is another story.