Why is the eastern front do underrated in pop culture?
>>2946247
Do the same but for prisoners taken by front.
>>2946247
Because no Americans were involved.
>>2946247
By this standard the Chinese won the war in the Pacific because they got millions of their own people killed.
>>2946247
because spending your off days rounding up and shooting """""""""""""""""""""""""""""Partisans"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" doesn't make for good entertainment.
>>2946247
because commies hide those numbers for a long time
>>2946615
False equivalence. Ground combat was not main factor in beating Japanase unlike in Europe.
>>2946247
We don't like acknowledging the Soviet's contribution to the war because they were literally an Axis power in the beginning.
>>2946247
Who cares about pop culture
>>2946247
Because Hollywood is in the U.S.
>>2946247
>implying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOlXnJ-PDDE
Richard Burton and Orson Welles
>>2947229
>they were literally an Axis power in the beginning.
American education
>>2946615
The Soviets won the war because they caused 90% of the German deaths and utterly demolished the German military.
>>2946247
>>2949951
>>2949954
So this essentially shows that the image of perception of historical events depends on the now. As France is getting on better relations with America, their opinion on their service in WW2 goes up.
Well at the end of the war most continentals agreed that the Soviets had contributed the most, then they started treating the eastern europeans like shit and everyone agreed fuck 'em.
>>2950000
It's because American culture is now the global culture