[C19fan]

From a moral viewpoint dubious but if the map of Eastern Europe was going to be transformed it had to happen.

[dfwgator]

Waaah.....Germans expelled Poles from their lands during the war....and Poland had even more land stolen by the Soviets after the war....besides many of those lands Poland gained, went back and forth between Germany and Poland over the centuries.

Same happened to the Germans in the Sudetenland, better to expel them, then to lay the seeds for the next war.

[wideawake]

The Germans were clearly begging for it, no tears shed there.

However, the Soviets did not deserve to control Koenigsberg, a coup which enabled them to exert further control over the Baltics.

The Communist government of Poland didn't deserve control of Danzig either, but a free government of Poland did, so in the end that part of the deal has worked out.

[nathanbedford]

Beyond the suffering of millions of Germans from East Prussia, the Sudeten land, large areas of present-day Poland, and as far away as the Volga, we have half a century of enslavement of the people's of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe.

In this context, the next time we hear some leftist in Hollywood deploring McCarthyism we ought to remind ourselves that for four years from 1945 until 1949 the United States of America had exclusive ultimate warmaking power in its hands and failed to use it, or even threaten to use it, on behalf of these enslaved peoples. From the time that Alger Hiss acted as a senior advisor to Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta in 1944 until the Soviets were able to acquire the bomb through espionage of United States atomic secrets, the Soviets were utterly defenseless but nothing could induce the United States to act. To the contrary a study of the reaction to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri reveals how he was reviled by the left in America and in Great Britain for warning the world of what was transpiring.

Much of the suffering endured by these German refugees from the East and by all the slave peoples of Eastern Europe occurred not solely as the inevitable consequence of the turmoil of the world war but through the calculated cruelty of the Soviets. Much of it could have been avoided or alleviated by an America vigorous and confident as the sole possessor of the world's ultimate weapon. Our inaction was not due to a disparity in military might but to an artificial state of purblindness.

[ozzymandus]

Expulsion would have been one thing, but mass murder was entirely different. They’re still finding mass graves of german civillians in Eastern Europe. (And they’re not looking for them)

[fso301]

Well, there are consequences to losing a war you started.