The United States has been slow to acknowledge that Nazi Germany most likely would not have been defeated without the Soviet Union, argues Matthew Lenoe, an associate professor of history at the University of Rochester, in an opinion piece that appeared in the Washington Post’s “Made by History” section. The section is edited and curated by historians.
“Paying tribute to the overwhelming contribution of Soviet men and women to victory in World War II and commemorating their losses would go a long way to soothing that sense of grievance and improving Russian-American relations,” writes Lenoe, an expert on totalitarianism, Russian and Soviet history, and the Eastern front of World War II.
- Why it’s time to give the Soviet Union its due for World War II: Read more in the Washington Post
