[Sherman Logan]

Didn’t Ike stop Patten so the Soviet army could take Berlin?

And they lost over 100,000 men killed doing so.

As compared to 400,000 US troops dead in the entire war.

Let the Soviets have the capture of the capital of a defeated enemy. I'd rather have 100,000 live Americans.

[BroJoeK]

Cicero: "Didn’t Ike stop Patten so the Soviet army could take Berlin?

Sherman Logan: "And they lost over 100,000 men killed doing so.

As compared to 400,000 US troops dead in the entire war."

Extremely important point. Let's see if I can make it even stronger:

Your 400,000 includes ALL US personnel who died in Europe, the Pacific, accidents, disease, etc.

US Army & Air Force battle deaths were fewer than 300,000 of which around half were in Europe.

Point is, the Soviets lost almost as many just taking Berlin as the US lost in the WHOLE WAR AGAINST HITLER.

Indeed, where the US lost fewer than 200,000 in Europe, the Soviets lost over 20 million!

So anyone who says that Roosevelt, or Eisenhower (or whoever) "gave away Eastern Europe" to Stalin, has NO concept of the scales of warfare going on there.