Are we just throwing their armies at each other or imagining there is a war?
Because Russia could just throw lots and lots of men at Germany.
And then there is the question of where would this RussiaVGermany take place?
Does Germany invade Russia again, or does Germany get attacked?
And if Germany isn't being attacked on the other side by the Allies, then it has it's full strength against Russia.
I don't know. I'd say it could sort of go either way.
Whatever the outcome, it would be grissly
Also, if all countries were, lets say, for themselves and didn't defend each other, then Germany would steam-roll over much of Europe. Logically, if they weren't having England attack to defend France and others, then they wouldn't even bother with the UK.
And if Germany were taking it smooth and just knocking country after country, they'd get even bigger eventually. If Germany had the time and was't plagued by other countries trying to stop it, it could take it slow and become greatly powerful.
But that's all hypothetical.
Let's assume it's just Russia and Germany fighting, in a territory where neither have a significant "home field advantage," if you will. I hate to repeat myself, but the Red Army had some of the best marksmen/women, and had vastly superior weaponry and vehicles. Russian technology was far more reliable than anything Germany could have built. The Red Army also did have significant strength in numbers, with a seemingly endless stream of men and women coming to fight.
Right off the bat, we can say that a large part of Germany's population is not even eligible to fight, if we look at women and then Jews, Gypsies, homoloveuals, etc. Germany was rather busy rounding up people that they did not like and guarding them while slowly killing them off. We can take some more of their potential armed forces away for that. Germany's most brutally effective strategy was the Blitzkrieg, or Lightning War, but that did not work against Soviet Russia at all. The Blitzkrieg failed miserably at Stalingrad and Moscow, resulting in a horrendous German defeat both times. Germany was fairly terrible at maintaining territory that they captured, and they were terrible at defending against attacks, their main strategy being a slow retreat whilst trying to buy themselves time. Soviet Russia had many different tactics that they used, but their most effective was to attack their enemies with so much force that they could not be stopped. I feel like Soviet Russia would rape the Germans on an even playing field.
416,800 American military personnel died during WWII. Now of course this isn't just fighting Germany, but it was said that over 100,000 died during the battle of the Pacific, which means it is between 100,000 and 200,000, so that leaves about 200,000 Americans that died during the battle of Europe.
America rarely ever directly fought the national socialists. The Battle of the Bulge and D-Day were the largest battles America was involved in, and the United States basically got assraped through both. D-Day was a Self Delete rush into machine gun fire and The Bulge was an overwhelming amount of Germans coming at everybody else.
For most of the war America just sat in the corner jerking off at Japan and playing with experimental technology, I hate to say it but that's really the truth.
If you want to talk figures, lets look at casualties
USA: 416,800 total military casualties 1700 civilian deaths 418,500 total deaths
USSR: ~8,000,000-10,000,000 mil. ~13,000,000-14,600,000 civ. ~23,400,000 total deaths
The USSR was fighting Germany and lost around 20 times more men and women in doing that than the USA did in the entire war. If anybody deserves to be regarded as the "heroes" of the war, it's the USSR. They survived through mass genocide committed by German troops on their civilian population during the push into Russia, and then they pushed the Germans out. It was the USSR that did the vast majority of national socialist-fighting. Great Britain sat around getting bombed. France was jerking off, and the USA was giving Great Britain a reacharound while getting bombed by Japan. After the Soviets took Berlin, they weren't done. They invaded Manchuria and caused the equivalent of the Japanese pissing themselves. The surrender of Japan should be at least partially attributed to the Soviets beginning a ground invasion, because Japan was terrified of the USSR, most countries were.
In conclusion, the USSR did the bulk of the fighting during WWII despite the Allied Powers being useless allies to them. I believe that the USSR was the mightiest force out there and that we should give them far more credit than we do because they did or contributed to doing nearly everything that the USA likes to take credit for.
