https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/12228-Britain-America-disagree-who-did-more-beat-nazis
There are some hints in YouGov’s poll that memories of the Cold War may be a factor. Americans aged 18-29 were the age group most likely to credit the USSR, though they still prefer the US by 36% to 16%. However Americans 65 and up, who would have mostly come of age during the heart of the US-Soviet rivalry, pick the US over the Soviet Union by 66% to 9%, a much wider margin.
I do love the folks putting troll answers in like Belgium though.
Germany should be an option. Their ideology really made it impossible for them to be sustainable long term.
Not necessarily. The war became a turning point for many of our established views today.
At the time anti-semitic views were common in the US, and Hitler didn’t expect the UK to stand against him.
If the UK had stayed neutral, Germany might well have succeeded and anti-semitism may well have become normalised in western views.
A huge majority of those who actually lived through WWII gave credit to the Soviets, who killed the most Nazis by far.
Given that the survey is in English, I’m guessing mostly people from English speaking countries took it.
