Which side did Russia support in World War 2?

Answer 1

They were almost a third player in WW2. While Russians were being attacked viciously by the German army, it was partially because they both had different forms of socialism. In fairness, if Germany had focused all of it's military on Europe, there would have been little possibility of defeating them without a long and drawn out war. It was plenty long as it is, but the Russian front took quite a bit of German resources and as such weakened the German efforts in Europe. After Germany was defeated, and when Japan was defeated but refused to surrender, Germany finally decided to get into the war with Japan so that they could share in the victory there as well, even though Russia did little to actually win against Japan. It had been a long, bloody and brutal war. When a weapon was developed that could keep Allied forces from loosing any more soldiers, the option was accepted and atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russia had been warned to stay out of that area before the bombs were dropped, only because they were allies, somewhat. Immediately following WW2, Russia started making demands.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of August 1939 was a non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, allowing each side "spheres of influence" in eastern Europe. The pact lasted until 22 June 1941 when Hitler launched the invasion of the Soviet Union (operation Barbarossa). At this point the Soviet Union entered the war on the side of the Allies against the Axis powers.

Answer 2

Russia initially started World War II with a pact with Germany creating an alliance that stated both countries would not attack each other. hitler used that to hold off the Soviets until he decided that he would attack Russia. You see, Hitler doesn't care about his word. He just tries to use everything to his advantage. When it was clear in Russia that the pact between Germany ceased to exist, they quickly requested to be admitted onto the Allied side of the war and eventually pushed the Germans so far back until they reached Berlin. The Allies had not wanted the Sobiets on their side, however, since it was a communist country, and one they could not trust with secrets. Given a better situation, with a war about to be won, Soviet entry into the war on the Allied side would have been denied.

Answer 3

In WWII, Russia, at the time called the Soviet Union, fought on the side of the Allied forces. In fact, you can research the taking back of a city fortress, Stalin Ground, a battle in which the Russians ensued a war of "attrition", which simply means that they threw mass waves of soldiers at the German lines until the Nazi Germans were overwhelmed.

"attrition" is a common myth about soviet soldiers in WWII. In fact, at Stalingrad German troops lost about 1500000 troops, and Russian about 1100000 troops, which give us thougt about better Russian tactics.

May I say that the answer above is partially correct. 1941+ The Soviet Union was "tectonically" on the Allied side, but from 1939-1941 they were best friends with Germany, with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Soviets also did fight countries that were considered friends to the western allies and never had good relationships with the western allies so you can consider the Soviet Union a third side of WW2.

Answer 4

After Soviets proposed forging an alliance with Britain and France which was turned down in 1939 just before the war started, Stalin signed the notorious non-aggression treaty with Hitler barely a week later. Russia turned to the Allied side after Hitler's act of military invasion, which eventually failed. This led to the ending of the war, after it was shown that the Germans could be defeated.

Answer 5

on the English side they were against the Germans.

Answer 6

Russia, as part of the Soviet Union, was one of the Allied Powers and was invaded by Germany.

Answer 7

allies