Originally Posted by Mutt

The Russians weren't being beaten by anybody, wouldn't have mattered if Great Britain had been defeated by Germany and forced to fight the Russians or allied themselves with Germany voluntarily. Russia lost 27 million people in WWII and if they had to lose 127 million they still wouldn't have given in. The little gutless bitch Hitler double crossed Stalin on the Molotov Pact and invaded Russia by total surprise - Russia was totally unprepared but soon enough they gathered their wits and resources and dug in like no country ever dug in, had to, Stalin ordered ANYBODY showing any cowardice to be shot on the spot. Hitler was an absolute moron, people in general and historians as well dwell on how evil he was and his psychopathology - what isn't talked enough about is that he was borderline retarded and his decisions proved it. He was never going to win against Russia, Hitler was idiotic enough to think the Russians would surrender fast before winter came. This is the same idiot who actually believed the Brits were going to ally themselves with him.

And boo fucking hoo about Britain losing its empire - its empire was built on evil, racism and greed as well and the United States by default got stuck with the mess the British Empire left behind in the Middle East, got stuck with the mess the French left behind in Vietnam, stuck with the mess the Japanese and Chinese left behind in Korea. The US wanted no part of WWII and if not for the idiot Hitler declaring war on America they may have stayed out of Europe completely and let the mighty Canadians and Brits open up a second front on their own.