I don’t really get the point of this comment… I’m no fan of the USSR, but am I supposed to be mad at them about this? They weren’t at war with Japan. They were a little busy defending their homeland, and I don’t believe Japan ever directly attacked them (someone will probably prove me wrong about this).
Ah, come on, people “busy defending their homeland” still had plenty of time to invade Iran, and grab all the Baltics in “liberation efforts” (and no, Baltics weren’t part of Axis like, for example, Romania or Hungary).
But anyway - losing that many people is an absolutely valid point for why not to send forces, but my comment was about refusal to cooperate with allies at all - not lending airfields, detaining allied pilots doing emergency landings (they were detained until war ended too).
Soviets did eventually march in Japan, to grab some land for themselves (not that I condemn it, Japan was part of big bad after all), but before that for some time question wasn’t even about them directly joining the war as about letting allies use Soviet logistic hubs to launch offensives from far east, circumventing Pacific theater.
I don’t really get the point of this comment… I’m no fan of the USSR, but am I supposed to be mad at them about this? They weren’t at war with Japan. They were a little busy defending their homeland, and I don’t believe Japan ever directly attacked them (someone will probably prove me wrong about this).
Yeah the soviet’s had enough going on without opening up a second front.
Ah, come on, people “busy defending their homeland” still had plenty of time to invade Iran, and grab all the Baltics in “liberation efforts” (and no, Baltics weren’t part of Axis like, for example, Romania or Hungary).
But anyway - losing that many people is an absolutely valid point for why not to send forces, but my comment was about refusal to cooperate with allies at all - not lending airfields, detaining allied pilots doing emergency landings (they were detained until war ended too).
Soviets did eventually march in Japan, to grab some land for themselves (not that I condemn it, Japan was part of big bad after all), but before that for some time question wasn’t even about them directly joining the war as about letting allies use Soviet logistic hubs to launch offensives from far east, circumventing Pacific theater.
No no, you see, the USSR couldn’t have and never did any wrong.
If they did, they parties wronged deserved it.
/s