chapotraphouse

WW2 was Germany steamrolling western Europe and getting their shit rocked by the Soviets, who industrialized faster than any other society in history before or since. Meanwhile, Japan was attempting to build an empire in Asia and the Pacific and tried to pre-emptively destroy US capacity in the Pacific, forcing them to enter the war and forcing Germany to declare war on the US due to alliance. Japan lost badly in the Pacific and was driven out of continental Asia, and then surrendered shortly before the Soviets could invade the Japanese mainland.

The Soviets were the real heroes of ww2