Medvedev insults British, Commonwealth, and US Veterans

" the Soviet people and the Red Army won the war, no matter what some individuals write in various books..." Declared President Medvedev recently.
 
President Medvedev may wish to reflect on the fact that for Great Britain, and for many other countries, this war, to which he refers, began in 1939. not in 1941, which is when the  Soviet Union entered the war. He may also wish to reflect on the fact that during the early days of the Blitz. when Londoners were subjected to a savage form of warfare in which the main targets were civilians, the bombers of the Luftwaffe were powered by engines supplied by the Soviet Union.
 
Indeed, on land, sea and air, Stalin's Soviet Union was a great aid to Hitler's Nazi regime during the early days of the conflict.
 
President Medvedev may also reflect on the losses incurred by the allies in Africa, the med, the middle east, and Asia. His country fought only on its own territory, although its forces were very quick to advance into Germany once the western allies opened the second front in Normandy. The way in which the British contribution to the Soviet war effort, and the sacrifices of those who served on the Murmansk convoys, has been airbrushed out of Russian history, is nothing less than a disgrace. At the end of the war, Russians were eating Canadian food, wearing American uniforms, and firing British bullets.
 
He may also consider the huge losses of the British Commonwealth and the USA in the war against Japan - a war in which Russia's armies took no part, although they cynically decalared war on Japan in the final days of the conflict, so they could claim "victor's spoils".
 
As for Russian condemnation of the holocaust, it should be remembered that as many as 30,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers, "liberated" by the Soviets from German POW camps ended their days in the Gulag. The book Soldiers of Misfortune: Washington's Secret Betrayal of American POWs in the Soviet Union by James D. Sanders, Mark A. Sauter, and R. Cort Kirkwood (1992) claimed that 20,000 US servicemen were also taken by the Soviets, and that  "Starting in 1945, the Soviet Union became the second-largest employer of American servicemen in the world." A US Department of Defence press release, dated 09 Dec 2003, revealed that Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Jennings had visited Moscow as part of the work of a joint U.S.-Russia commission set up in 1992 to explore the question of whether Americans were held in, or transported through, the former Soviet Union during WWII, the Cold War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. The cases of more than 200 airmen who went missing during the Korean War were discussed. It is widely held that downed American fliers, especially electronic warfare officers, were routinely sent to Moscow for interrogation and execution.