Harpal Brar: In spite of their repeated promises, Great Britain and the US did not open a second front against Germany until June 1944 – at a time when it had become clear that the Soviet Union was on the way to defeating Germany single-handedly. The D-Day landings were more an effort to prevent the Red Army liberating western Europe than a contribution to the defeat of nazism. If one listens to imperialist myths, one gets the impression that it was Anglo-American imperialism that defeated Nazi Germany, but the truth is that the Red Army and the Soviet people made the most decisive contribution to the defeat of nazism. The price of this victory was terrible for the Soviet Union. Twenty-seven million Soviet citizens, including 7.5 million soldiers, lost their lives. By comparison, the US only lost 300,000 men, and the losses of the British empire reached the number of 353,652 men, with not more than 224,723 for Great Britain. To this number one must add 60,000 dead from the civilian population. wordsmith.social/protestation/…