[lbo-talk] war polls

[ravi]

At around 23/6/06 12:43 pm, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> --- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Wow, Stalingrad brought "believe the Allies are
>> winning the war" from 35% to over 80%!
> 
> That sounds like an informed opinion. If Stalingrad
> had been lost, Hitler would have won access to the
> Caucasian oilfields; he could have shifted Army Group
> South up to take Moscow; that being done, moved
> further north with Army Group Center and ended the
> siege of Leningrad, and with the rump of the USSR
> being pushed over the Urals,  he might have been able
> to move on England. That's what the public knew. 
> 
> There's something to the idea that General Chuikov
> (who held the line at the Volga) and Marshall Zhukov
> (who led the pincer attack that trapped Gen, later
> Field Marshall, Paulus' Sixth Army), and Khrushchev
> (the political rep of the Party and the Stavka, the
> military command, on the site) saved the world. 
> 

That was part of the history that we were taught (outside the USA) -- at
school, and in my case at home by my mother a history teacher, and my
father who actually lived through that time. The Battle of Stalingrad
was the big one! And the Russians, more than anyone else, helped win
WWII. Perhaps the American opinion of that time reflected that reality
too. For example, I have read that Reagan did not enjoy his current
heights of popularity among the public (at least consistently) while in
power.

	--ravi

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