Ever hear of the Hitler-Stalin Pact? Hitler invaded Poland and then Stalin did as well and both split up Poland not to mention other lessor bits around Romania.
But I guess you are right. An insane dictator invaded another insane dictator! And that concerns the United States how again?
Who controls Poland was an American concern how again?
The Brits said they went to war on "Polish" independence in the first place. Did the USA? Nope. Our stupid warmongering cripple President who was surrounded by spies and lackies sold out half of Catholic and Christian Europe to his hero Stalin!
Poland was invaded and yet we left it in the hands of Communist Russian occupation? But we were supposed to care when the Germans invaded them again somehow?
To the troopers in the field - most knew it as well.
I am quite familiar with the Russo-German Non-Aggression Treaty. Although I agree that, as an American, Eastern Europe was of no concern to our strategic interests; as a Jew of Eastern European extraction, it concerned me greatly. The Poles were just as happy (if not more so) to ship my family off to "work camps" as the Germans were.
I despise Communism (and FDR) as much as Fascism, BUT...I would have never been born if America did not ally with the Communists and ultimately, liberate the camps. I am unable to be objective on this issue.
I believe we have strayed just a wee bit off topic :^) Thanks, Burkeman1, for a spirited debate. I am sure there is much that we agree on, if not this issue.