WWII pic's

As well deserved the hate directed at the murderous Stalin, if not for the Russians, the Allies may have lost or come close to losing the war in Europe. Remember, (and even though both Stalin and Hilter may have have long planned to double cross each other) Stalin and Hitler were somewhat "buddies" for some period of time. Hitler was trying to get around the Versailles treaty, and had manufacturing in Russia.

If not for the tremendous attrition of the war on the Russian front, the fact that Hitler was certifiably nuts, and Germany's fuel and other supplies problems, things may have been much much different.

Some of the German technical advances -- even in the face of utter defeat, are to this day amazing. Hell, the rocket science of the U.S. came directly from Germany