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To: Professor_Leonide
Stalin probably had more of FDR's ear than Churchill

Stalin wanted the US to open a second front by immediately invading Europe; Churchill strongly objected, arguing that the Americans were naive to think they were yet the equal of the Wermacht. An American invasion of Europe in 1942 might have distracted Germany from the Eastern Front, but it would have resulted in the Iron Curtain falling in the Atlantic Ocean, not central Eurpoe.

Churchill was right, Stalin was wrong, and, yet, you choose to criticize Churchill.

Go figure.

65 posted on 02/23/2009 10:35:48 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mr. Lucky

Are you nuts? Stalin is on par with Hitler, but Churchill receives undue appreciation bordering on idol worship from people who have little grasp of historic events.


69 posted on 02/23/2009 10:39:25 AM PST by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
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