Bunch of things. First, if by "Westerners" you mean "the population of the western world", very few of them know much about history at all, so it's not really a case of them of understating or ignoring something. They just don't know much about it.https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1221957643511660545 …
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Second, the historical profession has done its bit re) the USSR. In English there are 100s of works, with an outpouring of scholarship in particular in the last 20 years. I can think of not one historian who has denied the immense role of the USSR in defeating Nazi Germany.
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Third, if anything, there was a longstanding tendency to denigrate the Anglo-American war effort. There was a virtual consensus in the literature for half a century that the Anglo-American armies fought poorly, for example, winning battles by "brute force" as John Ellis put it.
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Fourth, it is undeniably true that there has been comparatively little written in English about China's war against Japan. This may have something to do with the fact that it's a small community of scholars who have the requisite language skills and the interest in that topic.
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Fifth, the communist governments of the USSR and China themselves, it should be noted, produced reams of propaganda for decades while largely blocking access to their archives to outsiders. And then complained that "Westerners" were understating their contributions to the war.
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Sixth, history is an expressly "revisionist" discipline, but usually the charge of "revisionism" is made by people who are ideologically opposed to certain kinds of history but haven't the competence to state what, precisely, is wrong with it.
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