Most Americans believe that the U.S. won the war with a little help from the Soviets. Most Russians believe the opposite. What facts support these...

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not at all sure that most Americans believe, as you suggest, that the U.S. won the war with a
little help from the Soviets. The help from the Soviets was tremendous. If the Russians want to
believe that they won the war with a little help from the U.S., they could make a pretty good
case for their belief. The important thing was to beat Germany--and it took everything the
Soviets, the U.S. and the British could throw at them to make them finally surrender. The
pictures we see of their bombed-out cities...