Why did the british have balkans support against Turkey?

Most of Eastern Europe and the Balkan states had been part of the Ottoman Empire at its peak. ... The British wanted the crumbling Ottoman Empire to remain intact for as long as possible to provide some sort of buffer against the Russians, who Britain feared would attak

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.

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