Quote from d08:
Germany fell because it was attacked from all sides, no country on earth would survive that.
Attacked from all sides, by whom? By ferocious French and British, you mean? True, on June 6, 1944, the Allies began Operation Overlord in Normandy with appreciable success. That was almost exactly 3 years after Nazi launched their blitzkrieg on Russia (June 22, 1941.)
Wasn't PM W. Churchill soiling his pants under V-2 fire back in London until D-Day came?
Before this courageous effort by Allies to reclaim Western real estate, Russians were left alone to fight genocidal German Aryans on their own. Various significant events happened, like battle of Moscow, Siege of Leningrad, battles of Stalingrad and Kursk.
True, Russian losses were huge, many due to Nazi genocidal policy (Wiki) "that included Slavs (Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Serbs, and others), Roma (see Porajmos), mentally ill (see T-4 Euthanasia Program), Homosexuals and "sexual deviants", Jehovah Witnesses, and political opponents. R. J. Rummel estimates that 16,315,000 people died as a result of genocide, just over 10.5 million Slavs, just under 5.3 million Jews, 258,000 Roma and 220,000 homosexuals.[123][124] Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition would produce a death toll of 17 million.[125] A figure of 26 million is given in Service d'Information des Crimes de Guerre: Crimes contre la Personne Humain, Camps de Concentration. Paris, 1946, p. 197."
As mentioned previously, Russians could have equalized the score. Imagine this: they could have returned the confiscated properties to Jews, put the Aryans into the meat grinders they built for the rest of Europe, kicked them out to find a place in the Middle East, etc ... World would look much different today, wouldn't it?