Who was the most powerful nation: USSR or USA?

here it is sir...operation uranus june 43....hmmm...can this be right?......23567 porta -johns and 43560 pallet loads of toilet paper...its 2 ply tho...charmin

 

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Please explain

 

It appears to be a joke...?

 

strongest

USA easily. We bailed the russians out with supplies. Even hitler's stupid decisions in the first year helped a hell of a lot also.

 

The Americans of course.

Mic

 

Re: strongest

The Russians would have won without American supplies, it would just have taken longer.

 

I'm gonna say it was Odin and Thor, the Gods of snow and ice; for freezing the asses of the Germans just like they did to Napoleon

 

They were not the gods of snow and ice though. Odin is a god of wisdom, battle, death, and war. Thor is a god of thunder, and a protector of the godly realms.

 

Thanks Panzerman... my Norse history is a little rusty

 

I say the USA. Russia may have had the slightly better army (JS-IIs beat Shermans and Pershings), but America has the better air force (unless some WW2 fighter from Russia could beat the P51 and/or P47), the better navy (Iowa battleships plus aircraft carriers stomp everything), and the universal bottom line: the atom bomb.

 

The Later-war Russian fighters such as the La-5FN were very capable and certainly a match for the P-51 and P-47. The Soviet Union also had a first rate tactical air force, the Pe-2FT and Tu-2 were amongst the best aircraft in the world, if not perhaps due to the Cold War some of the most overlooked.

 

America still has it's aircraft carriers, which carry the F4U Corsair and the F6F Hellcat, two other high-performance fighters. And, remember the bottom line?

 

It's not only what equipment you "have"... there are many more factors.

- Economy
- Numbers
- Production capacity
- Morale
- Training

etc.

 

Which the US was out of by the time they'd finished with Japan. It took time to build up the stocks enough to build more bombs. Aircraft Carriers are going to be precious little use to you in central Ukraine (For example).

 

Not really... I mean the Black Sea is right there

 

And any carrier you put in there is going to be nicely in range of land based planes too

 

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for continental fighting , including closed seas, a navy is pretty much
gravy on top .
in the whole tread it seems than russians fighting is balanced with U.S.
comissary supplies ,
the U.S. soldiers deserve more respect than to be subordinated to boxes
of corned beef !! no matter how useful those were.
the military contribution of the U.S. was late and by 44 ,
irrelevant to the course of the war
as the arctic convoys had been late and irrelevant to the
turn of the war in late 42
This is not to belittle the men (often hardly more than kids ) who did the
fighting or sailing but it's russians boys who turned the tide at stalingrad,
with precious little help from outside !
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Well the US still won the war, which means they had the morale, economy, training, numbers and production capability to do so. And now that they have even better stuff, like the M1A2, and the F15, and the F16, and the F22, I'm sure it could hold it's own against any other world superpower.

 

And in 1945, which flag was flying over Berlin?

 

The US won the war? All those other countries didn't do anything?
So all those UK/Dutch/French/Russians (you name a country and someone from it took part on the "good side") they died for our Freedom...but with them the Allies Won (Not the US..but : The ALLIES)

M1A2 has the best gun that is true