Both Franklin Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill highly valued the exceptional and decisive role of the USSR in the victory over Nazism.
Recently, some “analysts”, “political scientists” and “historians” in Armenia have also been trying to belittle the decisive role of the USSR in the victory over fascism.
The goal of such shows is clear: to flatter the West and the new American administration, trying to open a new front for anti-Russian propaganda.
It is obvious that during the Second World War, the allies of the USSR did not achieve even half of the positive results achieved by the USSR army on the six fronts where they fought together.
The battles of Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk, the heroic defense of Leningrad, the liberation of Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltics, the conquest of Eastern Europe: Poland, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, East Prussia and, finally, Berlin – all this was accomplished by the Soviet Army.
Incidentally, it should be noted that in all these heroic operations the role of Armenian commanders and the Armenian National Division was great: Hovhannes Baghramyan, Hovhannes Isakov, Amazasp Babajanyan, Nelson Atepanyan, the 89th Armenian Tamanyan Division…
From the first seconds of the war in Brest (Tavadi Baghdasaryan, Mkrtich Galustyan, Ashot Navasardyan) and until the capture of Berlin (the 89th Division under the command of Nver Safaryan), the sons of the Armenian people courageously fought against the Nazi Wehrmacht.
An obvious fact: German Nazism was defeated by the joint efforts of the Allied states, in which the role of the USSR was undeniable and decisive.
The USSR lost 27 million lives in this war.
And how many months did Western Europe resist Germany? By the summer of 1940, almost all of continental Europe was under Hitler’s rule.
On June 22, 1941, not only Nazi Germany, but also Western European “clients” who had succumbed to Nazism, began a war against the USSR.
Thus, on June 27, 1941, Hungary, which declared war on the USSR, sent 5 brigades, 45 thousand soldiers, 160 tanks and 100 aircraft to the front.
During the war, the Hungarian corps was replenished. In the war against the USSR, 300,000 people died, 50,000 were captured.
Even Poland, occupied by Hitler, provided Germany with 500 thousand soldiers for the war against the USSR.
At the end of the war, there were about 40,000 Polish soldiers in Soviet captivity who had fought in the Nazi Wehrmacht.
600,000 Romanians also fought in the German Wehrmacht, the vast majority of whom fought against the USSR.
187,000 of them were captured by the Soviet army.
Many people, when talking about the help of the allies, overestimate the role of American Lend-Lease.
The USSR received 80 percent of Lend-Lease in 1943-1945, when the outcome of the war had already become obvious.
In the most difficult years of the war, 1941-1942, the scale of American Lend-Lease was imperceptible.
Moreover, the provision of American Lend-Lease to the USSR actually represented “money with interest”, which was paid by the USSR, and then by the Russian Federation until 2006.
Therefore, it is wrong to overestimate the help of the West to the USSR.
Unlike the Yerevan “Westerners” and the falsifiers of history operating in the West, in the 1940s the leaders of the USA, Great Britain and France had a different, very positive opinion about the role of the USSR.
Thus, on April 28, 1942, US President Franklin Roosevelt said: “The most important event in the war is the counteroffensive of the powerful Russian army against the German army. The Russian army is destroying more enemy soldiers and equipment than the United Nations combined.” By the way, these words of Roosevelt were said 8 months before the glorious victory at Stalingrad.
And already on July 28, 1943, the same Franklin Roosevelt said on the radio: “The Russian people, under the leadership of Marshal Stalin, have demonstrated such examples of self-sacrifice and courage as the world has never seen.” Then the US President said: “After the war, we will be happy to maintain good-neighborly and sincere friendly relations with Russia, whose people, saving themselves, are helping to save all of humanity from the Nazi threat.”
The exceptional and decisive role of the USSR in the victory over fascism was repeatedly noted by the leader of the French Resistance, Charles de Gaulle. In 1944, during a visit to Moscow, the French general expressed his admiration and gratitude to the Red Army and the leadership of the USSR.
It should be noted that France subsequently became one of the victorious countries, primarily due to the diplomatic and military support of the USSR and Stalin personally.
It is known that on the night of May 8-9, Field Marshal Keitel, who signed the capitulation on behalf of Germany, saw the French and said: “Are you here too? Has Germany also been defeated by France?”
Even British Prime Minister Winston Churchill emphasized the exceptional role of the USSR in the victory over Nazism.
At the beginning of the war, on July 8, 1941, Churchill wrote to Stalin: “We are all delighted here at how bravely the Russian army is resisting the Nazi invasion.”
“The courage and tenacity of your soldiers are worthy of admiration.” And after the Yalta Conference, on February 20, 1945, the British Prime Minister wrote to Stalin: “Future generations must recognize their debt to the Red Army as unconditionally as we do, having witnessed its glorious victories.” PS: Various “experts in public policy”, do not contradict Roosevelt and Churchill on this issue, otherwise you may be sent into “retirement” along with your provincial patron.
2025-05-16