World War II cost over 70 million lives. The story told in the West is that the United States saved Europe, but the truth lies in the graves of others. The Soviet Union lost twenty-seven million people — soldiers and civilians. China buried fifteen to twenty million under Japanese occupation and massacres. Poland lost over five million, half of them Jews. Six million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. Germany lost seven million. The United States? Four hundred and twenty thousand. The scale is clear: it was Soviet blood on the Eastern Front that broke the Nazi war machine, and Chinese resistance that drained Japan. The Holocaust was tragedy, but it did not eclipse the wider horror — entire nations erased, villages burned, continents scarred. Yet Hollywood taught generations to believe the liberator was Uncle Sam. The truth is harsher: America arrived late, fought less, and claimed the crown. The Soviet Union and China saved the world at unbearable cost. The victors’ propaganda rewrote history. Truthloop remembers who truly paid the price.