{"id":353592,"date":"2018-12-12T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=353592"},"modified":"2018-12-12T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T17:18:11","slug":"time-to-acknowledge-soviet-unions-immense-losses-in-world-war-ii-and-central-role-in-allied-victory-353592","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/time-to-acknowledge-soviet-unions-immense-losses-in-world-war-ii-and-central-role-in-allied-victory-353592\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to acknowledge Soviet Union\u2019s \u2018immense losses\u2019 in World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>, an associate professor of history at the University of Rochester, in an\u00a0opinion piece that\u00a0<\/a>appeared in the Washington Post\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>\u201cMade by History\u201d section. The section is edited and curated by historians.<\/p>\n

\u201cPaying 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,\u201d writes Lenoe,\u00a0an expert on totalitarianism, Russian and Soviet history, and the Eastern front of World War II.<\/p>\n

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