[Bob Eimiller]

Ally? I thought Stalin and Hitler were allies.... Russia only confronted Germany because their "ally" GERMANY attacked them... The tiny window of opportunity to stem the worst evil in modern history was only a few years. My position is to focus on the ERROR of allowing a growing evil to subjugate half of the European continent... for a generation.

The then constituted USSR spread their violent Marxist ideology to China, North Korea, Southeast Asia, much of Africa, Cuba,and parts of South and Central America.

Yes...It was a colossal policy error.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Apparently you are viewing some other history than that of planet Earth. On planet Earth the US and the USSR were allies and the former supplied the latter to fight the Nazis. They made plans together and fought the common enemy.

There was no way that the American people would have supported a war against their ally in 1945 and millions of Soviet soldiers were not going to allow any but a long and bloody fight to force them back from the territory it had conquered. We certainly did not have the men there to do is and Stalin knew we had no more A bombs. So this fantasy is right up there with the one about the secret Nazi base at the South Pole or on the Moon.