> And once the Red Army occupied Poland, they weren’t going to leave, period. <
You’ve got a lot of nerve injecting common sense into this thread. But seriously, you’re right. The Red Army of 1945 was a formidable, well-led force. Something like 70% of the German army was marshaled against them. And the Red Army kicked their butts.
Sure, the Western allies could have taken Warsaw, and maybe even Moscow. But that would have meant deploying atomic bombs against our recent ally, and many US casualties.
The American public never would have stood for that.
I sense some highly disputable statements here.
We supplied ussr.
Yalta was a sellout.
Poland and others could and would have fought their own battles.
The Red Army in 1945 was a shell of its former self, staffed with many Far Eastern minorities and females because so many “white” Russians were dead. Their strategy towards the end verifies this; they simply moved behind a rolling artillery barrage.
They did take a heavy toll on the European Axis forces, but paid a horrific price for it. Also, unlike the European Axis forces, the USSR only had to fight on one front; they observed a truce with Japan until the last months of the war, when they violated it to seize territory in Asia (planting the seeds for the Red victory in the Chinese Civil War, as well as both the Korean and Vietnam wars). While Americans fought and died pushing back the Japs, the USSR made nice with them (even sending their Far East troops to defend Moscow).