Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
And they were very brave sailors

How many Russian men and women died fighting and exhausting the German forces on the eastern front so the allied forces could move in from the west ?

Stalingrad was the key to hitler being defeated and it was Russian men and women who died in their hundreds of thousands
Absolutely. However Hitler only ever wanted to expand eastward -he had a pathological hatred for the Eastern European States and Russia. It was when France, then the UK declared war on Germany that the war moved westward..