Also, for more perspective, the Americans ONLY went into France and Netherlands before getting forced back in the battle of the Bulge.

Meanwhile, Soviets had already were pushing into the Reichstag and a female officer who had the Soviet flag as a head covering, used that as the iconic image of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag.

That's history.

More Soviets (Soviets, not Russians!) died defending Europe than Americans, Western Europeans and English combined.

And then the Americans had to go and fight in the Pacific against Japan. Knowing that their soliders were tired in the European campaign, the Americans opted to nuke Japan, both as a means to end the new fight in the Pacific, and as a show of force to the Soviets who had taken most of Eastern Germany and was pushing into the West.

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