Who won WWII the Soviet Union or the Allies (the US, UK, and France)?

Answer 1

Good question! I think overall America. UK lost its Empire and the cost of the war nearly bankrupted us. The UK only finished paying back America (our supposed allly) in 2006 for the Long Lease scheme we gave.
France capitulated so early in the war, they really don't count as an Ally - save for the fact that because they surrendered so quickly, Paris wasn't bombed.
The Soviet Union no longer exists, and Stalin though he threw troops at the war was a poor general and made huge mistakes. It was his generals that won that campaign for him.

However, the Alllies collectively did beat Nazi Germany including troops not just from the four countries you mention, but also from the Empire & Commonwealth of Britain i.e. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Answer 2

Well, the Allies probably have the biggest kill count. Granted, it was the Soviets who took Berlin in the end, but the Western Allies (including Australia and New Zealand) did most of the leg work, like taking back Western Europe, the Pacific and Africa. The Soviets didn't even declare war on Japan until its capitulation was imminent.

While with history revisions the 'Allies' now refers to any nation fighting the Axis, the Soviets really could be seen as a separate entity. During the actual war, the Soviets never considered themselves part of the Allies, nor were they part of the Allied command structure. There was also considerable tension between them and the Allies.

As for the Allied combatants who contributed the most, probably the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Greece, and Poland on the Western Front, and the United States, Great Britain Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and China on the Eastern Front.

Really all the Soviets did, was massacre a bunch of innocent Poles, and then get blown to smithereens by the treacherous Germans. They didn't turn it around until Stalingrad, when they finally launched an effective counterattack, and ultimately fought the Germans back all the way into Germany, which they dub the Great Patriotic War.

Answer 3

The USSR was an allie fortunately because of Hitler's stupidity. Hitler & Stalin had a pact, which for reasons I don't think anyone will ever understand, Hitler broke when he invaded Russia and opened up the Eastern Front. Had he consentrated on taking Britain, he probably would have and that would have compromised the rest of the Commonwealth countries. Either way FDR did not want to deal with either a nazi or communist Europe and therefore manuvered Japan into attacking as in Aug. the polls in the US showed 80% of Americans did not want to get involved in the war in Europe.
To be fair, the Soviet Union contributed greatly to the defeat of Germany.

Answer 4

Very likely. And the Soviets were in a way assisting the Nazis in WWII till they were invaded. USA would still be pretty much in their isolationism/neutral state till Pearl Harbor. So that would leave Britain at a vulnerable position where they also had to fight off the Japanese in the war in Asia. The invasion of russia was a terrible blunder and defeat for the Nazis at a huge loss of troops so if that never happened, the Nazis would have had a large amount of additional troops they could send to fight in Europe. This is probably why Operation Barbarossa is considered to real turning point of WWII as a whole.

Answer 5

To let you know,

The Allies are the nations of CHINA (Remeber that we were fighting in China as well like the famed Flying Tigers),USSR, UK, France, and the US.

France is counted because they fought on even after their country was taken, ever heard of the Free French Armed Forces. They used United Kingdom and United States supplied weapons, tanks, transports, planes, they still had a number of their warships and they were also their at Operation Overlord (or to the people who don't know correct military termonology, D-day) shelling the beaches.

Answer 6

It's a mixture of all of them.

Japan would never have given up if the bomb wasn't dropped. (USA)
The Enigma code wouldn't have been cracked and the U-Boats would have ruled the seas. Which would have meant no D-day. (UK)
The German army would have won in Russia if not for the weather and the resistance from the soviet union. (Soviet Union)

Where does France come into it though? The resistence was hardly anything compared to the other 3.

Answer 7

The Soviet Union or Russia was a member of the Allies.

But the winners were the people of the world.

Answer 8

All of the above were united to defeat the Germans and their Axis partners.

The Allies on the western European Front, the Soviets in the East

And all contributed to the defeat of Japan as well.

Do you learn anything at school??

For barratt8493's and the other posters ignorant comments about FRANCE:

Regarding WWII, between 1939 (when war was declared by France and the United Kingdom) and 1940, 120,000 soldiers died, not to mention the number of French citizens who died as war prisoners, forced laborers, deported civilians or in acts of resistance against the Nazis during the German Occupation. The amount of suffering occasioned by WWII in France is impossible to assess and should not be forgotten.

Only 20 years before the French were counting the cost of the fight against the Prussians in Ww1 from 1914 - 1919:

French casualties in WWI:

On one day (thats a 24 hour period for the thickos) 22/08/1914.
27,000 French soldiers* are killed on this single day in an offensive thrust to the east of Paris, towards the German borders.

Yes!! Twenty-Seven thousand, Husbands, Fathers, and Sons
killed in one day, its easy to make jokes about the French when your countries were not destroyed by warfare, no wonder 20 years later they had little stomach to face it all again!!!

World War I cost France 1,357,800 military dead.

4,266,000 military wounded (of whom 1.5 million were permanently maimed).

And 537,000 military made prisoner or missing.

-- exactly 73% of the 8,410,000 men mobilized, according to William Shirer in "The Collapse of the Third Republic".

Some context: France had 40 million citizens at the start of the war; six in ten men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-eight died or were permanently maimed.

10% of the active population and 3,5% of the total population died on the battlefields.

As a comparison, if this were to happen now in the United States, the number of casualties would reach 10 million.

There would also be 680,000 widows and 760,000 orphans.

Throughout Europe, the number of crippled soldiers amounted to 6,500,000.

Between 1914 and 1918, the drops in births in France is estimated at 1 million.

Answer 9

If the question is interpreted as who was more instrumental in defeating Germany then it depends.

The Soviet Union took more ground from the Germans but could not have defeated Germany if so many of Germany's troops and resources were not defending Western Europe.

Answer 10

That would be the Allies, which housed the US, UK and the USSR. The French only played a minor roll in their liberation, and that is about it. Funny thing about those french. US, Canadian and UK troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate the French. Many, many died. The French errected a monument to those brave souls that gave the ultimate sacrifice for the liberation of their country. If you go there you will see a uniforms commemorating the dead from Canada, UK and USSR. No one from the US, cause the French are salty about something. So essentially they said "piss off america and your dead." Also bear in mind, there were no Soviet troops at Normandy. So the French had nothing to do with the WW2 victory.