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Look- I don't want to get into a "who was worse" thing- Hitler or Stalin. I just would have been pleased if America stayed out entirely! It was not our war. But once we got in I find it sickening that we ended the war allowing another Butcher and Dictator to envelop half of Europe. The war started over the independence of Poland and ended with that country being occupied and oppressed by Russians just as it had been by Germans! It is almost as if Americans died for nothing in WWII. And I don't brooke any guilt over Russian deaths in that war. The fact that so many died is the fault of Soviet Leadership- their brutality and lack of regard for their own citizens lives. In fact- Americans died trying to open a second front to fast in my opinion becasue of this "guilt" which we never should have felt in the first place.

And as for Truman allowing the Russians to take even a scrap of Japanese territory is just outrageous and a betrayal of all those who died fighting Japan while Russia had a treaty with her all throughout the War! And then in her death throws the Russians invade in the last month of the War! What a disgusting display of Weakness on our part.

Treaty with Japan? Are you nuts? What treaty? Japan didn't attack Russia because Zukov taught them a lesson in the 20s. As for whose side who was on, let me remind you, it was Germany who declared war on America, right after Japan attacked. As for America staying out, well Mr. Buchanon, where do you really think America would be today if the Soviets had fallen, to be followed by the English and Chinese....do you think the Axis would just forget about those poor Yanks across the sea? Yeah, right. They still had a chip on their shoulder for you after WW1 and the Japanese had an honor deal to finish with you after old Admiral Perry's broadside diplomacy. You are living in a fantasy world in that case. And as bad as Stalin was, at least he didn't kill you for whom your great grand parents were.