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You Northern Americans are giving yourself way too much credit for your involvement in WW2. It was really Russia who did most of the work and who brought by far the most sacrifices. I don't mind a little history revision now and then but it is really Russia who deserves most credit for defeating the Nazis. We still greatly appreciate your endeavours obviously.
Russian flag over the Reichstag:
I totally agree with you. But we remember the Netherlands due to the stories our soldiers told of their warm welcome in the Netherlands. So we have a collective 'special' memory of your country. Not to mention the fact that one of your queens was born here, and the flowers the Dutch send as thanks every year. I think when Canadians speak of our efforts in the Netherlands, we are actually speaking of that.
But I agree that the impulse to always paint the Soviets as the bad guys, taints the history of what actually happened during the war.
You Northern Americans are giving yourself way too much credit for your involvement in WW2. It was really Russia who did most of the work and who brought by far the most sacrifices. I don't mind a little history revision now and then but it is really Russia who deserves most credit for defeating the Nazis. We still greatly appreciate your endeavours obviously.
Russian flag over the Reichstag:
You really are a pathetic. Thousands of Canadians died liberating YOUR country. You can sit here typing these messages thanks to the Canadians. Yet you take every chance possible to denigrate them. Shame on you. Oh yeah and those Soviets? Equipped by the Americans. Without the Lend Lease Act and American Aid the Socivets would've been finished in early '42 and Canadian production kept the British going through the darkest years of 1940-41. But of course you won't acknowledge anything that puts the US or Canada in a good light. BTW MY Great-Uncle took a bullet trying to liberate your country in a small town called Nijmengen.
Drro doesn't miss a chance to troll, even when it is at the expense of hundreds of thousands of dead Canadian and American servicemen. Classy.
Not quite as classy as bragging about 'our victory' in a war that was decided at the east front and which claimed the lives of over 20 million Russians. You history revisionists should really try to be a bit more subtle.
Not quite as classy as bragging about 'our victory' in a war that was decided at the east front and which claimed the lives of over 20 million Russians. You history revisionists should really try to be a bit more subtle.
Nobody has denied the Soviet Union anything. The victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan was a joint effort between the US, USSR, British Empire, France, and a whole plethora of other nations. No one here has has denied such. I sincerely apologize if this is how it came across to you.
America, Canada (part of the British Army), Britain, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium liberated the Netherlands. .......
I realize it may seem like a small thing, but still needs to be corrected. Perhaps when you made the above comment you were thinking of Canada's participation with Britain during WW1 when Canada was still a partially independent Dominion of the British Empire.
While it's true that a few Canadians served with several other allies' military forces during WW2, Canada's military was not part of the British Army or anybody else's army during WW2. By that time Canada was a fully independent sovereign state which already had its own independent Army, Navy and Air forces consisting of 1.1 million military personnel who went to war after Canada declared war on Germany independently of other allied nations.
In very few large american cities can you walk outside at 2m downtown not worrying about crime. In LA? San Fran? Chicago? New York? While it is hardly an issue in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver.
I must have missed that memo during the years I spent living in Chicago and gallivanting after dark in the other American cities listed by you here. This is complete nonsense. In the hood, sure, but elsewhere? Not at all. Canadians can sometimes be amazingly clueless.
I'm sorry, botticelli, if this appears to be a personal attack, but I can't stomach this kind of generalisation. It's flat-out wrong.
Last edited by maclock; 10-14-2014 at 07:17 AM..
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