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Consider this history as European powers (including Germany) & US celebrate #DDay:
Then Soviet ambassador to US, Andrei Gromyko, writes in his memoirs that Churchill didn’t want to open a western front during the 1943 Tehran Conference. Stalin pushed him to commit to Normandy:
Then Soviet ambassador to US, Andrei Gromyko, writes in his memoirs that Churchill didn’t want to open a western front during the 1943 Tehran Conference. Stalin pushed him to commit to Normandy:
Gromyko also says he delivered a cable to Roosevelt following Hilter’s attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 requesting a shipment of armour plating for tanks.
The cable was personally signed by Stalin. The Soviets received no supplies or replies.
The cable was personally signed by Stalin. The Soviets received no supplies or replies.
Ambassador Gromyko: “during the first year of Hilter’s attack, at the worst time for the Soviet Union, the USA sent us practically nothing. Only later, when it was clear the USSR could stand its ground, and on its own, did the deliveries gradually begin to flow.”
Gromyko: “While the Soviet people pay full tribute — voiced many times by our leaders— to the American contribution to the victory over Germany and Japan, the fact is that the USA did not do what it could and should have done to avert the war itself.” #DDay
