US taking credit in WWII is only happening in US. In EU we consider USSR being the one that took the most hit and the one that eventually made a final push to win that war.
If you learn history by watching American movies then I can see people believing we won it.
But in school I was taught the old adage: American steel, British intelligence, and Russian blood won the war.
Russian blood
Fun fact: the USSR endured a death toll equivalent to seven Pearl Harbors … every day for four years.
Correction: American Steal
Ding Ding Ding… America only joined the actual war effort after France had fallen and the UK could not continue to buy stuff them them.
Yeah, because nothing else happened that could have caused it. Especially in Hawaii
We do? Guess my history lessons didn’t cover this. I thought we were all equal, apart from the US only joining during the last half
Where are you from in the EU? Cause that’s not how it’s taught at all, from my background. The USSR helped start the war and without the lend lease program, from the uk/us, would have probably been taken over by the nazis.
EU is not a monolith. It really depends on where you grew up. Here in the Netherlands we learn mostly about the Canadians, British and Polish forces and Americans troops. Since those were the units that liberated the country.
I’m so out of the loop on history (ie, an american)
I’m an American who moved to Germany and it’s rough. I was a curious kid and enjoyed every subject except for history in school, so I retained a base level of knowledge in most of those subjects. I did not in history, and my dumb ass realized a couple of years ago that I wasn’t confusing them, there was both a Thirty Years’ War , and a Hundred Years’ War.
Anyway, I’ve been slowly educating myself about at least German history, and it’s a lot easier to get into it as an adult.
If it was really important, they woulda made a movie about it! (/s)
We all rebuild our understanding of the past piece by piece! You’re in good company here! 🙏
The Gurkhas didn’t start getting veteran benefits until 2014.
“champion of the free world”.
The “Free world” that literally colonized in India at that time…
I feel the upper part of this meme is about ww2 in the western world (against the germans & their friends) and the bottom part is about the ww2 in the eastern world (against japan). Would argue India isn’t actually alone underwater in this second part of the meme.
India sent hundreds-of-thousands of soldiers to the European and North African fronts, though.
Did India send soldiers, or did Britain send Indian
soldiersconscripts?The Indian Army was, at this time, actually an all-volunteer force.
Ah OK, no conscripts.
So what if it were conscription? If the British forced them and they helped win an honorable war to stop fascism, how does that change the fact here that the Indian people deserve more respect and recognition for it?
Do conscripts not matter?
I think the issue is India being dragged into a war by its colonizers. India would have had no reason to fight in those fronts if it wasn’t for the fact it was controlled by Britain.
Lord Hardthrasher did an amazing series on WWII in Southeast Asia that showed the true grit of Indian troops
