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To: Ravnagora
Maybe you guys could get the Nazis back. WWII war planners had alot of contradictory political inputs. The Balkans slightly more since the Soviets were already thinking past VE day. Would the bombing of Belgrade been better on another church season?

The state of Europe after VE day almost assured that the Balkans would go to the ones with the power there. Greece managed to turn back the commies. It's too bad that the same didn't happen in the states that ended up in post-war Yugoslavia.

The world is full of places that were liberated from the Nazis and the Japs. It isn't the fault of the war-weary Allies that the post-war world didn't meet the expectations of the liberated.

9 posted on 12/13/2013 9:13:50 AM PST by xone
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To: xone

The Allies were responsible for dooming millions of Europeans under the yoke of the post war Communism - for example, via YALTA.

The bombing of Belgrade by the Allies would not have been better “on another church season” as you put it. It was a travesty, considering that the Serbs were on the side of the Allies (unlike other ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia) and that Belgrade, even though occupied by the Nazis, was the capital of Serbia. The Allied bombing of Belgrade during the Easter season in 1944 killed more civilians than the Nazis did in April of 1941.

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10 posted on 12/13/2013 9:22:50 AM PST by Ravnagora
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