Remind me again; on what date did the United States Army occupy Eastern Europe in World War II? And on what date did it evacuate Eastern Europe and hand it over to the Red Army?
I understand. Possession is nine-tenths of the law and all that.
I just think that if we hadn’t had a nearly dead man, a dolt, and communists negotiating for us at Yalta, we could have enforced a much better outcome for the devastated people of central and eastern Europe.
Especially because our forces could have acted to take Berlin and Prague instead of sitting and waiting for the Russians to do the job.
In my opinion, it was short-sighted. And I have to wonder if there wasn’t a large element of vengeance-seeking on our own leaders’ part in letting the Russians rape and destroy so much the way they did.
Understandable, to a large degree,considering everything that had happened. But not necessarily right, and also not profitable, in the long run.