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Date: May 17, 2013

what was the role of USSR in the separation of east ****stan

Date: May 18, 2013

USSR Role in WW2

The Soviet Union had a very important and the decisive role in WWII. Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Most of the German troops were involved in the combats at the eastern front. So they couldn't fight at the western front. Most of the best material and soldiers had to be reserved for the eastern front. During the invasion in 1944 the allies found a better "kindergarten" and not the real "wehrmacht". This is the main reason for the defeat of Germany.
The Soviet Union had to pay a very high price for this victory. Only 1944, the Red Army lost 52.7 percent or 13,800 of the medium tanks which included the number available at the beginning of the year and those received from production. 13,600,000 soldiers of the Soviet Union died during the war at eastern front. Germany lost 3,500,000 soldiers during the whole war.

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Russia was an ally of the western powers (the good guys)until the war ended then things changed. Joseph Stalin wanted to control all of Germany. To do this he put up what was know as the Berin blockade (Russia Occupied all the land around Berlin) trying to force the USA and it's allies to give in and give him control of Berin. The allies developed what was called the Berin air lift, they flew supplies, food, fuel,medical,clothing and everything else that Berlin needed, into Berlin on an around the clock basis until Stalin opened the corridor. This was the beginning of the cold war that lasted into modern times. I believe it was President Reagan that was in office when the cold war ended.

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Until about 1941 i think, the USSR as it was known then was actually allied with the Nazis until it was attacked without warning by the Nazis under Hitler's dreams of a world without communists and vast living space for Germany. During WW2 Russia by far made the biggest sacrifice, it had no choice, the Nazis were fighting a war of extermination, believing the communists to be sub human they would not stop till they were all dead or captured. The USSR lost around 20 million people (about the current population of Tokyo), this was mainly because the USSR was the most incompetent fighting force ever, it is estimated that of 90% of USSR soldiers who died didn't even have a gun. The whole time they relied on the fact that they could just overwhelmed the Nazis and eventually just grind them down. During the war the USSR delivered the largest blow to the Nazis, at the beginning they lost many men in Josef Stalin's 'not a step back' policy, then they turned the tide at Stalingrad and begun the long bloody push back to Berlin. Although most of the credit of winning the war goes to the USA and Britain, they did little compared to the USSR and this can be seen by the fact that the Nazis had about three times as many men fighting the USSR then America and Britain on the Western Front.

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The Soviet Union's role in WWII was to absorb and destroy the Wehrmacht's ability to wage war. This is an overstatement. If you look at some of the loses suffered by the Soviet Union, 600,000 surrender here, 250,000 there, etc. This happened many times. The western allies could in no way have taken loses like this and stayed in the war. Because of the vast manpower reserves of the Soviet Union and their willingness to spend the lives of their soldiers, they became the anvil for the hammer of the allied bombing campaign to destroy the ability of the 3rd Recih to wage war

EverythingUK · Veteran Member

The USSR Entered WW2 not by choice but due to the presistant pressure from Hitler to move on forward. even though the USSR tolerated the invasion and advancement of the German military along its borders and eastern Europe yet it was not until the German military reached to the Russian frontier before the USSR really mobilized its forces and entered a state of war. it seems that Hitler was not satisfied with any victory in Europe without the invasion of Russia. its more like a conflict of ideology neonatszim vs Communism. being and proving to be a super power and a veto nation the Russians insisted in taking their share of victory after the end of the war and divide not only Germany but all or most of Europe.

Date: May 22, 2013

By 1991 the communist governments of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania, which had been imposed by the USSR after World War II, had fallen. The revolution swept across Eastern Europe.

In 1989, Moscow had already rejected the Brezhnev Doctrine, positioning against intervention in the internal affairs of its allies in the Covenant (which at the time was called Sinatra Doctrine) which would end with the fall of the communist regimes in the area. With its immense symbolic, in November 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, wiping leading to German reunification. Rose to power as dissidents meanings as the former leader of the union "Solidarity" Lech Walesa in Poland (December 9, 1990), or Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia (December 29, 1989). Gradually, all those nations saw their communist governments fall, either through popular elections or, as in the case of Romania, by a popular uprising, supported by the Armed Forces on December 17, 1989, the last Romanian communist president Nicolae Ceausescu was executed together with his wife on the 24th of that month.