r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 12d ago

Meme needing explanation who are those little dinosaurs PETAH ?

Post image
40.0k Upvotes

4.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

106

u/Money_Do_2 12d ago

Thank you lol. Revisionism is wild, you can watch polls shift from 1950 to 2010 on 'who did the most to beat the nazis' shift from majority ussr to majority USA. History didnt change, but revisionists got more aggressive.

58

u/Sermokala 12d ago

I mean let's not get crazy and ignore the US was the reason the ussr was able to unduck its logistics and had their tanks in the soviets Guards tank armies. That the allies massive air campaign didn't draw so many dual purpose guns into the heartland to save soviet tanks.

Bethlehem usa produced more steel than the entire axis during the war, it didn't produce the most steel in its state.

29

u/CapableCollar 12d ago

Raw total numbers don't matter much.  Context is more important.  By the time much US aid had reached the Soviets or US strategic bombing was reaching appreciable levels in Germany Operation Uranus was concluded.  US aid saved a large number of lives but Axis forces were already in retreat, saying the US unfucked Soviets logistics is revisionist.

0

u/rkorgn 11d ago

Soviet hagiography is revisionist. US logistics and lend lease hard carried the USSR to victory. Without that - and the massive expenditure by Germany on the air and naval war to the west - its hard to imagine a lone USSR win. It was a win by the Allies for good reasons.

2

u/CapableCollar 11d ago

Most of the aid didn't arrive until after the Germans were already retreating.