I don´t understand how people can say Russia was the star of WWII. They would have gotten curbstomped were it not for the rediculous amounts of supplies the US was sending their way. Apart from the fact that the US was literally fighting the war on three fronts (Pacific, West Europe and North Africa-Italy) with greater forces in all except perhaps North Africa, which was all the British. So, the US was supplying basically all of the allies (Russia and UK would have caved in were it not for the convoys of supplies), while almost fighting in the Pacific solo, and then fighting in Italy and West Europe. I understand that Russia deserves credit because definitely do, but they only won thanks to their recklessness in throwing troops into the meatgrinder until they eventually won and because of the US supplies until they were able to fight off the German offensive and go on the attack themselves. Had the US not entered the war, Russia would have been on a two front war with Germany on one side and Japan on the other. Granted Japan blew against Russia, but they would still have to commit forces in the East just in case. UK was basically trapped on the island barely being able to do anything, except in North Africa which was not as serious for Germany as the Eastern Front was. UK was pretty much totally subdued and would have eventually gotten invaded and curbstomped as well. Even without Japan, I´d argue that Germany could have taken on Russia and won while keeping UK controlled.