As I understand, Churchill met with Stalin behind FDR’s back and initially negotiated a bunch of postwar Europe to the Soviets in exchange for the rest, which never happened. The USSR just took what they wanted.
Patton was right to be worried about the USSR at the time, while most just shrugged at it.
Nobody is denying Stalin and the USSR were evil.
But the idea Paton had of invading Russia at the end of WWII...that was nuts.
If we couldn’t even control Afghanistan or Iraq or Vietnam after invading those countries, how do you think we could have conquered and controlled Russia under Stalin?