Posted on 05/16/2005 12:20:22 PM PDT by smoothsailing
I had few problems with The Gipper, but the biggest was his unabashed adoration of FDR. FDR screwed up this country, and much of the world, for more than a half century. We're still trying to come to grips with Social Security. What I could have done with all the FICA taxes I've paid over the decades!
The Yalta Conference began 12/2/45.
That's correct, Churchill walked out when FDR and Stalin suggested executing the officer corps of the German army. We're not talking about the SS, the Wehrmacht.
Regards, Ivan
The UN Declaration was signed 1/1/42
The UN Charter was signed 6/26/45
The Yalta Conference began 12/2/45
What a sickening statement.
FDR was filth.
If you'd bother to read the documents about Yalta, instead of just swallowing the Kool-Aid Mrs. Schlafly fed you, you'd see it was a joke. Stalin proposed a toast to the execution of 50,000 German officers. Churchill expressed his dismay. In a lame attempt to lighten the mood, FDR proposed a toast to the execution of *49,000* officers. The humor is slight, but it's there..."Oh, Winnie, you don't want us to kill 50,000 German officers? Okay...how about 49,000?"
In any case, Stalin backed off the idea, despite being told that the US Army would likely support such a draconian measure. Stalin claimed he was just kidding, but Churchill never was convinced he was.
Right about then people were pretty mad at Germany for their little adventure in Europe, and were looking for ways to stop such a thing from happening again. I don't have a lot of sympathy for the Germans - they basically got what they deserved (except the rape and pillage business that the Red Army did). The fact that Stalin benefited post-war sucks, because he was every bit the monster Hitler was, but the Germans started the damned war, not the Russians, and 30,000,000 Russian soldiers and civilians died because of Germany's aggression.
SW
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They both did.
Are you saying that the Nazis invaded Poland all by themselves?
Yalta happened when FDR was alive. I think it was 2/12/45.
Silly me! Thanks!
Snidely is correct.
Of course not. But it was German expansionist plans that set off the whole thing. While Stalin was complicit in the taking of Poland, it seems unlikely that he'd have been part of the partition all on his own.
Despite his bloodthirsty nature, Stalin wasn't nearly as ballsy as Hitler, who'd already re-taken the Rhineland, Czechoslovakia and Austria before 9/1/39.
There's also the fact that the Soviets' participation in the Polish business was essentially a grab for a buffer zone on Stalin's part. Wasn't right, but it makes more sense in light of that.
SW
Thanks. Were the details of who got how many votes worked out?
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