tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post1325402659669967858..comments2024-03-28T14:35:30.147-04:00Comments on Tank Archives: Second FrontPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622237223229485503noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post-89394018304347154052014-06-15T02:46:54.864-04:002014-06-15T02:46:54.864-04:00Obviously, the Great Patriotic War is being counte...Obviously, the Great Patriotic War is being counted here.<br /><br />To be fair to the Soviets, they did send out some feelers to the UK and France, not only Germany. UK and France were less than warm.arkhangelskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15247250672432027166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post-58549198379062158022014-06-10T06:26:16.677-04:002014-06-10T06:26:16.677-04:00"Such requests started as far back as 1941. H..."Such requests started as far back as 1941. Here are fragments of a letter from Stalin to Churchill dated July 18th, less than a month into the war"<br /><br />July 1941 was 19 months into the war, which began in September 1939, when the USSR was in a co-operative pact with Nazi Germany.Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post-3401451515945629242014-06-07T07:22:23.030-04:002014-06-07T07:22:23.030-04:00The only reason the western allies bothered invadi...The only reason the western allies bothered invading Italy is to prevent the Italian communists from seizing power after the fall of Mussolini.<br /><br />Overlord was motivated by the fear they would find the Red Army at the English channel.<br /><br />They had hoped that the Nazi's and the Russians would fight until they where both expended but like Hitler Churchill and Roosevelt they badly underestimated the Russians.<br /><br />"The outstanding fact [that] has to be noted is the recent phenomenal development of the heretofore latent Russian military and economic strength – a development which seems certain to prove epochal in its bearing on future politico-military international relationships, and which is yet to reach the full scope attainable with Russian resources." (FRUS, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, pp. 107-8.)<br /><br />From the US state department.pietnoreply@blogger.com