So, yeah, on paper the Nazis hated commies, but not for the usual reasons we think.
They only hated the commies who didn't OBEY or comply.
Too bad for the Nazis that there were enough commies willing to go to their graves who would not obey.
I'm not an expert in history, even though I love it. But I never "got" WHY Roosevelt would have given away Eastern Europe to Stalin.
Yes, we needed the soviets to win WWII in Europe, but Patton knew what the commies were up to and wanted to push them back.
Same deal with Churchill. He knew the score, but did nothing to stop Roosevelt from getting rolled.
“I’m not an expert in history, even though I love it. But I never “got” WHY Roosevelt would have given away Eastern Europe to Stalin.”
One reason is that the war in the Pacific was still raging and we wanted the USSR to join us in the fight. No one knew ahead of time that the atomic bombs would end the war, and if invasion was required to conquer the Home Islands it was going to be a long and brutal fight with a huge casualty count.
Another reason is that we would have had a very difficult time preventing a Soviet takeover of eastern Europe. We weren’t at war with the USSR but opposing them on eastern Europe might have resulted in one, and if you want to see how that would have turned out just look at the supply lines for the opposing sides. War is often determined by logistics.
“but Patton knew what the commies were up to and wanted to push them back.”
It’s a pity so few WWII vets are still with us. My father is one and he served under Patton when Patton commanded 7th Army. Those soldiers were very tired of war when Germany surrendered. They had been fighting in Europe for years at that point and they were all expecting to get shipped to the Pacific. Picking a fight with Soviet Russia at that point would have been crazy. It only looks good on paper to people living many years later.