“Soooooo, bearing false witness against an entire country is OK, if it’s expedient?”
You mean the Nazi Germans? Anything that helped them go down faster seems to be ok. Besides, lies are absolutely standard as a war tactic. What do we have, what did we do, where are we attacking.
Lots of false news reports were filed as the Gulf war kicked off. 82nd airborne parachuting deep inside, Marine amphib landings on the coast, etc etc,,, all false. All helped deceive the enemy.
Exposing the soviets then would have only played into nazi hands. Our soldiers would have paid the price. The eastern front was pretty much where the German soldier died in that war. Not even close. Besides,, whats it matter, the Germans mass murdered uncountable Poles, so why not smear em with it?
“The eastern front was pretty much where the German soldier died in that war.”
Which had absolutely NOTHING to do with U.S.-Soviet relations. Either they would have gone to war with Germany or not. How they felt about us had nothing to do with it.