I don't know, of course. There will always be revisions and re-revisions of history. I find the truth of the past, especially the truth about motive, to be elusive. The war was an all-out effort, on all sides. We forget sometimes that this wasn't a war over pieces of territory, but for existential survival. The war shaped the modern world. It redrew maps and shifted global power. I'm sure, as millions died in the Soviet Union, the Allied concentration elsewhere must have seemed wrong--but I couldn't begin to comment on the strategy, from the Allied perspective.
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