They went from pretty realistic in 1945 - The Soviets did all the heavy lifting, the Allies mostly supplied war materiel and then showed up for a bit at the end - To total Hollywood bullshit by 2000 - America saved the world. Even the article is hemming and hawing about just admitting that the war in Europe happened in the East and everything else was largely incidental.
Here's a good example of how perceptions about WWII changed over the decades
They went from pretty realistic in 1945 - The Soviets did all the heavy lifting, the Allies mostly supplied war materiel and then showed up for a bit at the end - To total Hollywood bullshit by 2000 - America saved the world. Even the article is hemming and hawing about just admitting that the war in Europe happened in the East and everything else was largely incidental.