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minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 days agoIf you learn history by watching American movies then I can see people believing we won it. But in school I was taught the old adage: American steel, British intelligence, and Russian blood won the war.
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days ago Russian blood Fun fact: the USSR endured a death toll equivalent to seven Pearl Harbors … every day for four years.
minus-squareGalactose@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·4 days agoCorrection: American Steal
minus-squareJhex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down9·4 days agoDing Ding Ding… America only joined the actual war effort after France had fallen and the UK could not continue to buy stuff them them.
minus-squareBoomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 days agoYeah, because nothing else happened that could have caused it. Especially in Hawaii
If you learn history by watching American movies then I can see people believing we won it.
But in school I was taught the old adage: American steel, British intelligence, and Russian blood won the war.
Fun fact: the USSR endured a death toll equivalent to seven Pearl Harbors … every day for four years.
Correction: American Steal
Ding Ding Ding… America only joined the actual war effort after France had fallen and the UK could not continue to buy stuff them them.
Yeah, because nothing else happened that could have caused it. Especially in Hawaii