Beijing and Moscow are planning to hold joint commemorations for the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War; experts note the countries are openly promoting their view on the historic event, debunking the myths created by West...
Both countries sustained severe massive casualties, on a scale that could hardly be imagined by the West. While the war claimed the lives of 418,000 Americans, 600,000 French nationals and 450,000 Britons, the USSR's casualties amounted to 27 million and China's – to almost 20 million deaths.
However, the publicist Paul Letters noted that many more could have been killed by Nazi military forces and their allies in these strategic Eurasian regions. For comparison's sake Germany, who launched the war, lost a total of 7.3 million people while Japan lost 2.7 million, according to some estimates.
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China and Russia to Jointly Commemorate WWII, Promote Own View on History
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Correct. D-Day and the liberation of France never would have happened and Britain eventually would have succumbed to the Germans if Hitler's armies weren't heavily engaged in the Eastern front with Russia. It made the U.S. effort in Europe a "mop up" operation. And while the U.S. "won" the war in the Pacific, it did so only after dropping two atomic bombs on the tiny island nation of Japan. It wasn't winning prior to that.
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