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To: daniel1212
You can support Stalin to defeat Hitler, but the victory you win will be short.

No, not over Germany, but over the manner of atrociousness that Hitler practiced, and the type of threat he presented to the West.

The problem with that sort of thinking is that if we hadn't allied ourselves with Stalin, Germany would probably have defeated the USSR, freeing some 200 divisions to fight us.

Sometimes you have to deal with the devil.

292 posted on 02/19/2010 10:16:01 PM PST by GL of Sector 2814
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To: GL of Sector 2814

Perhaps any help should have been just enough to defend themselves, clearly stating that any advance beyond the borders of Russia would be opposed by the other Allies, rather than giving such aid which enabled Soviet forces to be inside Poland and parts of Romania by August 1944 in their relentless drive West. At the very least the U.S. should have refused to allow Stalin to enter Germany or have countries as war booty, seeing as America had The Bomb, even though the reason for helping Russia should not only be to defeat Hitler, but to free the Russian people. It is tragic that people suffer due to corrupt leaders in government.

Of course, i do realize that the U.S. did not know for sure till late in the war that it would have the bomb, and it is easy to be an armchair general, but treating Stalin, who was arguably worse than Hitler, as an “uncle Joe” was tragic. I know in real life is it very hard sometimes, to not work, to some degree, with evil persons against a greater immediate threat, but one must ever be conscious that the same poison that kills rats may also kill your dog.

“I think if I give [Stalin] everything I possibly can, and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of peace and democracy.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1943 (Roosevelt’s dreams were reinforced by leftist intellectuals and government employees — a handful of whom later were found to be Soviet agents — who surrounded the President during the New Deal days and the war years.) http://www.theadvocates.org/freeman/8910ebel.html

The Soviet policy of Churchill was much different than that of Roosevelt, as he believed Stalin to be a “devil”-like tyrant leading a vile system.


505 posted on 02/20/2010 7:38:28 AM PST by daniel1212 ("Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord [only Biblical object of petition] shall be saved")
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