TimS comments on George Orwell's Prelude on Politics Is The Mind Killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 31 March 2012 02:21:33AM *  5 points [-]

The Battle for Stalingrad, which is the beginning of the defeat of the Nazis, starts in Nov. 1942. What are the Western Allies doing then? Invading North Africa, which I think was fairly irrelevant to the outcome of the war.

Wikipedia says that 80% of German military casualties were on the Eastern Front.

My impression from reading When Titans Clash is that the USSR could have won WWII without D-Day. Obviously, it would have taken much longer (and ended up with Soviet puppets all the way to the Atlantic Ocean).