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Originally Posted by aka123
I don't disagree with US liberating some European countries, well, at least as a major participant. Nor I have expressed such disagreement.
The issue that you are battling against is not the issue who literally liberated those countries, it is about who made the most war effort towards achieving that goal. And it is quite undisputed that Soviet Union did most of that with the help of US material support.
You are speaking about liberation literally, Cyberseo, etc. are not.
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i am speaking abpout liberation exclusively on account of the topic being about liberation. my OP was on point with the topic and i would have preferred to keep it that way, unfortunately several here thought it a gotcha opp.
anyway, back to more re: why many europeans believe Americans liberated them:
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With the United States forces, which now far outnumbered the British troops on the Continent [9]
[9] Mr. Churchill recognized the importance of this disproportion of strength in his statement to the British Chiefs of Staff during the March and April debate over strategy.
"I hope ... we shall realize that we have only a quarter of the forces invading Germany, and that the
situation has thus changed remarkably from the day of June 1944...."
Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, p. 460. See also Pogue, Supreme Command, pp. 409-13.Page 483
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