Which is what the Communists claimed. Those in the Progressive Party camp in 1948. Our rapid withdrawal from Europe after the war left the whole west exposed to a Red Army that did not go home. The Soviet Union from its start was a military state, and so Stalin did not face any “bring ‘em home” cry from the people.
Solzhenitsyn recounts in the Gulag Archilpelago that all the Russian soldiers that traveled West and experienced the fruits of the West were for the most part rewarded with a rewarding stay in their archipelago. How’s that for bringing them home? Communism has a sick way of rewarding it’s unwitting sheep and those caught in it’s grasp. The people wouldn’t have cried to bring ‘em home if they knew what was awaiting. But I regress many did and during Eisenhower’s Operation Keelhaul hundred’s of thousands chose death while US soldiers rounded them up for repatriation as we even broke many promises to our allies. A rather ugly stain the apparent victors have left out of the historical narrative.
Solzhenitsyn recounts in the Gulag Archilpelago that all the Russian soldiers that traveled West and experienced the fruits of the West were for the most part rewarded with a rewarding stay in their archipelago. How’s that for bringing them home? Communism has a sick way of rewarding it’s unwitting sheep and those caught in it’s grasp. The people wouldn’t have cried to bring ‘em home if they knew what was awaiting. But I regress many did and during Eisenhower’s Operation Keelhaul hundred’s of thousands chose death while US soldiers rounded them up for repatriation as we even broke many promises to our allies. A rather ugly stain the apparent victors have left out of the historical narrative.
Operation Keelhaul is described in detail in Robert Welch’s infamous and contested book Eisenhower.