[Lukasz]

I get the feeling the author has no comprehension about the limitations of negotiating power Roosevelt had at Yalta. Russian troops occupied half of Poland, what the heck was the USA supposed to do, start a war to force them out?

At least he should start the negotiation process or before told the Poles that he isn’t interest in this matter. Maybe thousands of polish soldiers would not perished in foreign war. No one forced FDR to accept the communist government in Poland but it was proof of his intentions.

[ppaul]

None of which changes the fact that there was no national will in 1945 to begin a new war against the Soviets.

New war? We were already at war! Patton wanted to conduct a "mop up" operation to rid Europe of the mrderous tyrants who helped start the war - the corroborators with Hitler who in 1939 invaded Poland. And, Patton would have succeeded. However, FDR had a love affair with "Uncle Joe" which blinded him from the reality of what communism is - the same love affair which even today infects the U.S. left. FDR sold out the freedom-loving peoples of central and eastern Europe to another holocaust surrounded by an Iron Curtain.

[Mount Athos]

I'm sorry, do you believe FDR could snap his fingers and make communist government in Poland go away? How exactly was he supposed to make Stalin do what he wants, please be specific. How do you evict the troops from Poland. It would take a new war. Stalin would have given up Poland in negotiations at Yalta, but at what cost in concessions elsewhere? West Germany? Japan? Do you people have any grasp of how negotiations work?

Stalin was our ally in WWII, and the American people had no interest in 1945 for more fighting with a new enemy. It was never an option, it could never have happened, please stop dreaming.