How much did Britain really win WW2?

[chicoazul]

Scotland and Sweden need to invade England in order for England to become a magnificent country.

This is the pincer attack and cultural superiors needed to fix England for good.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Scotland and Sweden need to invade England in order for England to become a magnificent country.

Bring the Canadians along. Two armies apologizing as they knock over towns and cities, and one spitting fire and brimstone.

 

[Goat]

How is this even a question?

ENGLAND won the war, what did the Welsh do? Snatched a load of kids and sent them down the mines.

England did the whole world a proper solid, do we ever get thanks? No.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Bring the Canadians along. Two armies apologizing as they knock over towns and cities, and one spitting fire and brimstone.

I'd love to be ruled by Canada. Land of Terence and Phillip, flappy heads, and saying aboot.

 

[Prevenger17]

The last good thing Russia ever did was win World War 2

 

[Number_25]

The last good thing Russia ever did was win World War 2

And we've not forgiven them since.

 

[Yarrgh]

It's almost like Britain, the US and Soviet Unions were allies against a common foe in WW2 and somehow all managed to win by being on the same side.

 

[magicjuan]

I find it interesting that both Germany and Japan are both progressive economic powerhouses with decent societies far preferable to their conquerors nearly a century ago. Perhaps Britain needs to get beaten in a bar for longer term beneficial societal chance.

Are England the baddies now?

It was because their infrastructure was decimated and rebuilt using techniques, technologies and practices that had been developed during the world.
It was British guts and guile that contributed to holding up Germany (not Hitler or the Nazis, but Germany) until the technological advances of the US, plus its capacity in production , intervened.
People forget the reward for their sacrifice during the war and after, was the NHS and social security and yet it is the tub thumping right wing 'patriots' that seem hellbent on destroying that legacy.
We're still at war by the way.

 

[The binman chronicles]

The last good thing Russia ever did was win World War 2

Russia were on the brink of being defeated and would have been had it not for German tactics. I'd say it is therefore their own fault they didn't but that said even if they had have taken Russia could they defeat America and the atomic bombs that would have been dropped on them instead? Probably not.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Any excuse
Bismark

Tirpitz (Bismarks bigger brother)

Navy caught up with a stricken Bismark after it had it's rudder damaged by torpedo delivered by Swordfish biplane.
Tirpitz met it's end in the fjord it was hidden* in where the RAF dropped 8 ton tallboy bombs on it. Trivia fact, salvaged plates from Tirpitz are used to cover holes on the autobahns of Germany.
Yamato (Japanese) was 50%(ish) bigger again that Tirpitz. But the age of the battleship was over. Impressive pieces of kit.

 

[lancs blue]

I hear it used often about “we won the war” but how significant was Britain in defeating rather than resisting the Nazis during WW2?

There’s no doubt the island resisted gallantly and were a part of the drive in storming France and pushing to Berlin but was Britain as significant as Russia in winning the war? Or even as effective as the Johnny-come-lately US in turning the tide of the war. Was it Hitler’s own folly in opening up a second front more decisive in ending the war than Britain’s toil?

It should be a great source of pride to anyone who took part in the war that they overcame an oppressive far right government of course.

Is your dad a GI?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Is your dad a GI?

tempting*...

 

[Mr. White]

Well, if it was the Soviet Union that won the war, they paid a massive price for it... an estimated 10,000,000 military deaths, plus 14,000,000 civilian deaths. In contrast, the UK suffered around 400,000 military deaths.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Well, if it was the Soviet Union that won the war, they paid a massive price for it... an estimated 10,000,000 military deaths, plus 14,000,000 civilian deaths. In contrast, the UK suffered around 400,000 military deaths.

Nothing on what Stalin did next...

 

[Charro]

Well, if it was the Soviet Union that won the war, they paid a massive price for it... an estimated 10,000,000 military deaths, plus 14,000,000 civilian deaths. In contrast, the UK suffered around 400,000 military deaths.

Stalin also starved the population in pursuit of building an military that can defend the country.