Posted on 03/31/2005 12:51:58 PM PST by jb6
The should put Neville Chamberlain in there somewhere too. All he did was appease Hilter. Stalin was a co-conspirator.
Chiang Kai Shek was at the Yalta conference?
Yep!
It is the truth, that the Wehrmacht was welcomed by waving children in the Ukraine in 1941, just like the Bundeswehr was welcomed in Kosovo by the Albanians just a few years ago. Of course I saw those propaganda "Wochenschau" films, that were sent home to Germany by one of Goebbels "Kriegsberichterstatter(s)". If you know the circumstances of the 40ties, the innocence of the Ukrainians and their nescience about Hitler, their motions were more than understandable, since they had to deal with with the maneater Stalin already since 20 years in that time. It got even worse and much more blood was wasted on lonely fields in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
The sad part of history is, that always the "common" people have to pay for the insanity of their "leaders"...
I do not believe in a monument that celebrates the betrayal of all those brave nations (like the Poles) and people in the East. It would have been okay to delay Stalin for a little while, but Churchill and Roosevelt found themselves bound to the appointments they made with Russia. This is the reason why we had to go through the cold war and many years of communist oppression.
Do you remember the recent rise of freedom in eastern Europe? Maybe we could have had this 60 years before if the right decisions would have been made in the right time.
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