Even Churchill -- a die-hard anti-communist, right-wing colonialist, and racist who oversaw genocide in India -- had to admit that the Soviet Union did "the main work in tearing the guts out of the German Army." He later repeated that "it is the Red Army that has torn the guts out of the filthy Nazis."
But there has been a systematic campaign, by the US empire and its loyal stenographers in the corporate media, to rewrite the history of World War II, erasing the leading role of the USSR and international communist movement in defeating fascism, and turning the USA, which played a relatively minor role, into the hero. This is a form of Holocaust revisionism.
But there has been a systematic campaign, by the US empire and its loyal stenographers in the corporate media, to rewrite the history of World War II, erasing the leading role of the USSR and international communist movement in defeating fascism, and turning the USA, which played a relatively minor role, into the hero. This is a form of Holocaust revisionism.