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I also doubt that most western Europeans would be grateful for the 85,000,000 deaths (in both WWI and WWII) that resulted from American intervention in WWI (which led to directly to WWII) if they understood how it went down.

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Ahh, I see, we should have let the Germans win WW1 because then there would have never have been a WW2.

Ironic that you mention Eastern Europe. If that Atomic bomb hadnt been droped on the Japanese it is very likely that all of western europe would have fallen under communism. The russian war machine in theatre could have rolled over Eisnehower and co in a few weeks.

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Lol. No. Eisenhower was ready to roll through eastern europe and the soviets because of the widespread reports that the Soviet "liberators" were worse than the German occupiers. However, he was ordered to stand down by the Truman administration.

Had Hitler not been stupid enough to open up the war on two fronts, and had the Soviet Union not been supported economically during the war by the United States, Germany would have easily conquered the Soviet Union. The USSR simply did not have the economy to win the war unaided against an undivided Reich (the USSR's economy was never larger than 2-3% of the US economy).

Hitler lost the war through impatience and stupidity, not through any might or particular prowess of the Soviet military.