Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian
Well, to the original question - it is utter nonsense picking one event and saying this changed the course of ww2. That could be said also for Germany's attack on Yugoslavia, which also delayed the attack on USSR. I mean, there are numerous occassions where smaller nations did their part, whether in providing information, sabotage, rescuing pilots, disrupting german lines of communication or the actual fighting. Just keeping order in the Balkans took up 32 divisions of Germany and her allies. Those divisions were badly needed elsewhere.

Did all that stuff had an effect on the course of the war? It sure did! But choosing one and claiming that it was THE event that changed the course of the war is plain stupid.
Please don't go about calling discussions stupid. This is not a place for nutkicking and small personal attacks.

You disagree, good, make your points. But it isn't as if this was presented as some kind of truth, it was put up for discussion rather than "yeah we are so cool because we won the war for you without knowing it."

You focus too much on the premiss of the discussion rather than the actual discussion, and that is as bad as doing the opposite. No need to come out fighting like that.