I consider General George Patton as one of the most visionary men in the USA whose opinions about the Communists were totally ignored by the politicians ( under both the FDR and Truman administration ).
After he helped crushed the Nazis, Patton was quick to assert the Soviet Union would cease to be an ally of the United States and warned about their duplicity.
He was concerned that some 25,000 American POWs had been liberated from POW camps by the Soviets, but never returned to the US.
In fact, he urged his superiors to evict the Soviets from central and eastern Europe. Patton thought that the Red Army was weak, under-supplied, and vulnerable, and the United States should act on these weaknesses before the Soviets could consolidate their position.
In this regard, he told then-Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson that the “point system” being used to demobilize Third Army troops was destroying it and creating a vacuum that the Soviets would exploit. “Mr. Secretary, for God’s sake, when you go home, stop this point system; stop breaking up these armies, Let’s keep our boots polished, bayonets sharpened, and present a picture of force and strength to these people, the Soviets. This is the only language they understand.”
Asked by Patterson—who became Secretary of War a few months later—what he would do, Patton replied: “I would have you tell the Red Army where their border is, and give them a limited time to get back across. Warn them that if they fail to do so, we will push them back across it.”
Needless to say, he was totally ignored ( in fact, asked to shut up ), and the rest is history.
Unfortunately, men like Patton are hard to come by even in today’s military.
Ping.
There was ever very much question about that.
Stalin may have been an SOB, but he was FDR & Harry Hopkins SOB.
I don’t think naive is the right word. Complicit would be closer.
FDR wasn’t naive when it came to Russia, he was simply in love with communism. One of the reasons he failed to warn the military about Pearl Harbor was because he wanted an excuse to get into the war so he could help his buddy Stalin. FDR was one of the biggest traitors this country has ever had, ranking right in there with the jerk we now have in office.
*** They discovered the mass graves, and immediately converted the atrocity into a propaganda coup to split the Big Three Allies.***
I saw a write up of this, with photos, in a reproduction of the German magazine SIGNAL.
Kinda like Barack Hussein and the Muslim Street?Only with the
guy in the White house I see evidence he intends to harm America-Never paid no attention to FDR-the damage he did we have adjusted to -as much as possible.
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.
