I recall Zhukov didn’t think they could have won without the Wests help in supplying things like Steel, regardless of machismo from later USSR leaders who claimed they always had it all under control. FDRs death was gravely mourned in the Soviet Union. Stalin praised the allies for distracting them with the invasion of Italy.
The USSR did the most in that war but they were not in fact capable of winning by themselves.
The USSR did the most in that war but they were not in fact capable of winning by themselves.