The allies only “helped” when the help was no longer necessary. Stalin had been begging for a second front for years at this point, and the cowards only do something when it looks like the soviets are gonna roll over all of Europe.
Jacques Pauwels has a good book detailing both how the Allies’ second front was indeed an attempt at capitalizing off of an inevitable Soviet victory (and mitigating Soviet influence in Western Europe in the aftermath), and also how little resistance the Allies faced on the Western Front because German soldiers were terrified of the Soviets and fled west to surrender/be protected by to the allies.
The allies only “helped” when the help was no longer necessary. Stalin had been begging for a second front for years at this point, and the cowards only do something when it looks like the soviets are gonna roll over all of Europe.
Jacques Pauwels has a good book detailing both how the Allies’ second front was indeed an attempt at capitalizing off of an inevitable Soviet victory (and mitigating Soviet influence in Western Europe in the aftermath), and also how little resistance the Allies faced on the Western Front because German soldiers were terrified of the Soviets and fled west to surrender/be protected by to the allies.