In the waning days of WWII one of the Reuther boys journeyed to Europe, thereby pleasing their Kremlin masters, to talk to the troops about why our generals should be pulling them out.
This would give the full force of USSR troops a free path to taking over.
How in the hell did we WIN?
All Eastern European communists reported to Truman’s buddy Uncle Joe.
We ended combat well into the predefined zone of Soviet occupation. Since that time we have surprisingly, won the peace, with Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania all joining NATO. Ukraine and Georgia are on the list of countries to join NATO. If you want to see the Soviet Union as it once was, you have to go to Belorussian.
Not perfection, but better than we would have hoped even 20 years ago.
We won because the communist traitors didn’t imagine that the threat of nuclear bombs would prevent Soviets from overrunning western Europe. We won because the communist traitors didn’t imagine that we would withdraw, and let the local people govern themselves. As a great American said, the only land we took was enough to provide for the graves of the men lost. The greedy, foolish, fearful communists never imagined such generosity, such courage, or such wisdom.
And so we won.