harmonica
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''arguably''----hahahhahaha---obviously you are wrong--because they did not---they had the Germans beat in 1943Actually, if FDR had not intervened to pick a fight with Japan, the Soviets arguably would have collapsed. After FDR succeeded in provoking Japan to turn her hostile intentions from the Soviet Union to America, the Soviets were free to move dozens of divisions, hundreds of thousands of troops, from the Manchurian border to Moscow, and those troops turned the tide against the Germans. This is common knowledge among historians.
The Soviet counteroffensive became possible due to the appearance of fresh divisions from Siberia and the Russian Far East. Until the very last minute, Stalin had kept a significant part of the troops on the border with Manchuria, expecting a Japanese attack.
However, after the Soviet spy Richard Sorge reported that the Japanese Empire was not planning to start a war against the USSR in 1941, several dozen divisions were redeployed to Moscow, where they tipped the scale in the Soviets’ favour. (5 little-known facts about the battle that blunted the German blitzkrieg)