Posted on 12/08/2010 9:16:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Be careful not to mention Alger Hiss because he was innocent you know. sarc
Remember, according to the liberals, Joe McCarthy was stark raving mad and made up all that stuff about commies in the gov and Hollywood. sarc
I don't think such an argument stand for long, given what's known of the relative strengths and equipment of the prospective combatants, to say nothing about the effects that an Anglo/Soviet conflict in Europe would have in the Pacific.
Only an autocracy can effectively implement such "stab the ally in the back" maneuvers, though, and I'm quite glad I live in a society where it isn't possible.
BTW, it is entirely possible Stalin might have tried a "pre-emptive strike" of this type had not the Bomb given him excellent reason to reconsider any such plans he may have had.
Oh you're no fun anymore. </Python>
I reckon Stalin probably directed STAVKA to the same type of study Churchill did his Planning Staff with "Operation Unthinkable", and came up with much the same answer, i.e., let's not.
Katyn was only a drop in the ocean of the Soviet terror. After so called liberation, Soviets murdered hundreds of thousand of others in the same Katyn way in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Hungary, etc.
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