The USSR defeated Germany on the Eastern front. Without the Western front, and particularly the Normandy and Italy invasions, it is doubtful whether they could have pulled it off, as their costs in repelling the German forces were very high. That is why Stalin repeatedly begged and demanded that the Western front be opened up. It is interesting to speculate how events would have turned out if we had launched the Western invasion a year earlier instead of investing resources in the North Africa campaign.


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