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You should brush up a bit on your military history. The standard combat-readiness training time was 8+ months during WW2 (see [0]), which puts it quite a distance from a "quickly-assembled force of farmboys and factory workers".

Similarly, the USSR's victory and WW2 as a whole is much more accurately called an allied victory. The US played a significant role in supporting soviet industrial capacity with programs like Lend-Lease that allowed them to actually fight the war. Other nations contributed to the war in their own ways. It's not a contest for who deserves all the credit.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7wwo7w/how_l...

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