After moscow's victory in the defense, Stalin eagerly proposed to the British and American leaders that a rapid landing operation in Europe be carried out to relieve the pressure on the Soviet army. Although the German army lost the Battle of Moscow at that time, most of the German army was still located in the Soviet Union, especially the Army Group Center, which was still entrenched in the Lezhev region not far from Moscow, and could launch a surprise attack on Moscow at any time. Stalin's proposal for landing remained on the shelf until the summer of 1944, when the Allied landings were actually launched, the Normandy landings.
The moment of victory in World War II is finally coming. Why did Stalin's landing proposal not materialize until two years later at the allied top? We have to say that during World War II, even as an ally, we considered our own interests. The establishment of the Soviet Union was very frightening to the Western countries, especially Britain and the United States, and there was even a war between the two sides, and the relationship between the two sides did not ease until the 1930s, because of the Great Depression, Britain and the United States wanted the Soviet Union as a trading partner, nothing more. Faced with the rising German threat in Europe, the Soviet Union hoped to unite with the Western countries to oppose it, but britain and France at this time wanted to lead Germany as a powder keg to the Soviet Union.
Even later Britain saw the Soviet Union as an ally, in order to resist German reluctance. Churchill, in particular, regarded the Soviet Union as a beast of prey. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Churchill actually had two kinds of thoughts, on the one hand, he hoped that the Soviet army would be able to defeat Germany, and on the other hand, he hoped that the Germans could continue to hold the Soviet army back, preferably both sides. This mentality led him to reject Stalin's request to open a second front in 1942. This was Churchill's long-standing continental balance-of-power strategy, and Roosevelt, without Churchill's support, was also suspicious of opening up a secondary battlefield.
Landing operations during World War II were a very risky activity, the British army had landed in Dieppe, and as a result, it was defeated by the Germans, which made Churchill give up the plan to land even more, and instead bombed important German cities with bombers, and the United States later joined in, carrying out an unprecedented large-scale bombing of Germany, basically eliminating the Germans' war strength.
As the Soviets gradually seized the initiative on the Eastern Front, the second battlefield became an urgent issue. At this time, it was Britain and the United States that were anxious, and they needed to land in Europe and seize the fruits of victory. What do you think?