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Nationality shapes views of a global war’s burdens

People in many countries generally think their homeland did the most in the Second World War.
Soldiers of the Red Army take a break during the Battle of Stalingrad January 1943

Soviet soldiers in 1943 during the Battle of Stalingrad, which killed more than one million members of the Red Army but is little remembered outside Russia. Credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Getty

Which country put the most effort into the Second World War? It depends on whom you ask.

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Nature 572, 418 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02445-3

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