Do you think that Russia doing all the winning in Europe would have been any better than Hitler keeping control?

And US contribution to winning the war was closer to that of France and UK, and far, far, far, far behind Soviet Union, where Germans lost 80% of their army and where it was broken in Stalingrad

Here's a few contributions to the war that were ignored in that article.

• Stalin himself declared that without the gigantic US production machine, the war could not have been won.

• Britain would have starved without food, oil, and raw materials from the US.

• With the UK out of the way in Africa, Hitler would have had full access to middle-east oil.

• Russia would have had to do without hundreds of thousands of heavy trucks (The foundations of a mobile army) and the US produced 95% of new locomotives and railcars that Russia replaced losses with. In fact 65% of Russian ground transport was US built, and Russian rocket artillery batteries were almost all built on top of US trucks.

• Russia would had to do without the flow of millions of tons of food, clothing, and medical supplies from the US via the Pacific, Iran, and the Arctic.

• The US produced some 20% of Russian combat aircraft.

• US/British heavy bombers did massive damage to the German economical war machine, and US/British fighter pilots virtually destroyed the Luftwaffe, thereby removing an extremely potent threat to Russian tank forces.

• Japan would have been free to attack Russia, putting Russia's east Asia factory complex at huge risk.

Casualty counts are not the only part of a war.