Dream on!
The North Atlantic convoys of aid from the UK into Russia kept your parents alive.
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Wow. Should I also have thanked Brits for saving Russia and that luxuary to speak English insted of German? With all respect to thoes heroes (not very numerous) of convoys (we remember and evaluate their activity even more than in their homeland) I cannot say that they changed the direction of war.
As for doing nothing for defeating the Germans, I really, really suggest you go and do some history.
1940: Netherlands, Belgium and France occupied. The Battle of Britain (as it is commonly referred to) was a 4 month campaign of attrition between the RAF and the Luftwaffe. The losses were appalling, with the average life expectancy of a fresh fighter pilot being just 7 days. There were pilots of all nations taking part, including Poles, Czechs, Americans, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Free french, Belgians, Irish and even one Sikh, one Jamaican and one Palestinian! I am looking down the list...I don't see any Russians named.
"'The Few' were 2353 young men from Great Britain and 574 from overseas, pilots and other aircrew, who are officially recognised as having taken part in the Battle of Britain. Each flew at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit of the Royal Air Force or Fleet Air Arm during the period 10 July to 31 October 1940. 544 lost their lives during the period of the Battle. A further 791 were killed in action or died in the course of their duties before the wars end."
I did not see any contradiction. You sat in the island and fought in the air, in other words saved your arses, but nobody could have defeated the most skilled land army in the world fighting only in the air.
2353 young man is a drop, almost nothing, among real troops that partisipated or victims in the war.
The military dead in the war shows real participation of Brits:
Soviet Union 8,700,000
Germany 3,250,000
Britain 240,000
(stat from the book "WORLD WAR II", H.P. Willmott, 2004)
According to those facts I cannot thank Brits for saving word from invasion of German language, people from South East Asia and Far East think the same but this myth is very viable in heads of heirs of the Great Empire, which disappered 50 years ago.
As for Russian pilots in 1940, Soviet Union was not ally of yours and didn't partisipate in the war at that time, but between 1941 and 1944 the UK was but did almost nothing in fighting against GERMAN troops or MOST time of the war as I said.
Shut up about Lenigrad - a million people had been dead during 1000 days siedge. Your mosquito bites had nothing in common with this.
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Did you defeat Gering Airforces? You should stop walking with Jonny so long.
What those gosts had done during next 4 years in the Eastern Front? We was able to make parity with them only in 1944.