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Originally Posted by Retlaw
The Russians took Berlin because the politicians and leaders of the British and American forces were told to hold back. Otherwise the allied forces would have taken Berlin, and Stalin did'nt want that, he wanted revenge.
Retlaw.
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But when you consider what Hitler had in mind for Moscow, had he captured it, Stalin's attitude isn't surprising. It is one of the troubling things about "history", that, in the West even today, historians and the general public (or at least those who think about things other than Oprah and Jerry Springer) still seem to ignore the sacrifices of the Russian people in The Great Patriotic War. I think it's time I tried to find out how Russian historians treat the contributions of the Western Allies in the defeat of Hitler.
An aside: has anyone read Deighton's "SS-GB"?