Many people don’t know that many of the forces fighting the Americans at Normandy were Russian conscripts. This seems like something that would be super obvious, especially since Saving Private Ryan depicted the main characters shooting surrendering Russians, but nope, it’s been pretty much erased from contemporary knowledge.

I loathe how WWII has become badly distorted by attempts to paint it all as this black and white conflict where the GOOD GUYS fought the EVIL NAZIS.