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Donald Sensing's The awful stakes of D-Day explains why the invasion of Western Europe was so incredibly important. Hitler and Nazism were going to be defeated one way or another, but Europe had to be saved from Stalin and Communism.

The Soviets certainly would not have slacked their offensives had Normandy failed. If anything, they would have pressed all the harder, but would have pressed equally hard for a much larger share of American war production, insisting that they were making better use of it than we were. As they would have been the only dog in the fight, the demands would have been hard for Roosevelt to resist. Not only would all Germany have become communist, so would France, whose communist cells were very active and which would have benefitted greatly from having the Soviet army literally next door. Imagine the Iron Curtain falling at the English Channel. The Soviet bear would have easily swallowed countries like Denmark, The Netherlands and Belgium. Likewise, Greece’s postwar communist insurgency would have succeeded. Italy might easily have turned communist also.