On this, the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany, Professor Cohen began our interview with a discussion about the increasing downplaying of Russia’s critical role as an ally of the U.S. and Britain in the fight against Hitler. As Cohen explains, popular films like Saving Private Ryan deceptively portray World II as being won by the U.S. with the invasion of Normandy in 1944, while ignoring the three years prior in which the USSR, at the cost of 27 million lives, drove the Nazis from the heart of Russia back to Germany. Cohen cites Winston Churchill …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
