No slight to the Russian war effort is intended in this piece, which is solely a Veterans’ Day homage to those Americans who fought and died in Europe in World War Two. I firmly believe that had Britain been knocked out of the war at an early stage, Russia would have beaten the Axis powers single-handed, and as it was, the enormous efforts of the other Allied powers were diminished by the colossal scale of Russia’s war. 26,000,000 of her citizens perished in this, Russia’s “ Great Patriotic War... Sign in to see full entry.