https://nitter.nl/Karl_Was_Right/status/1619050540113219584

  • Vncredleader
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    2 years ago

    Exactly. The US understood the utility and need for a second front from day one. Eisenhower grew progressively pissed at the British for delaying

    • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Even if you view it from a cynical imperialist lens, it was still benefitial to open a second front to secure a better position in post-war negotiations. If the Western Allies left the RKKA to do everything, then there likely would have been a full DDR encompassing the whole of Germany as part of the Warsaw Pact or whatever the Eastern Bloc would be called in this alt-history.

      In the short, meme way, if the Normandy landings hadn't happened then Stalin would not have stopped at Berlin.