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Originally Posted by Kobalt04
It is an interesting scenario: the Western Allies v. the Soviet Union and its allies in a war for Eastern Europe. The US would have had to resort to using atomic weapons against the USSR. I don't think that the West would have won a conventional or non-atomic war against the Soviets in the immediate post-war period. The article portrays Churchill as a realist when dealing with Stalin and the Soviets; and when dealing with Stalin and the Soviets, one most definitely ought to have been of a realistic cast of mind. Had the Western Allies taken Berlin and advanced further eastwards across Germany and possibly Poland and further into Czechoslovakia, it would have definitely placed Stalin and the Soviets in the position where they would have to honour the commitments that they had made to the Western Allies, especially preserving or re-instituting a free and democratic Poland. I think that there can be little doubt about this.
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At Yalta Roosevelt and Churchill had recognized Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe:the Russian armies were already there ;that Berlin would be occupied by the Soviets was a fact .
About a war with the SU :it's only phantasy :every body in the West was looking on Stalin as Uncle Joe,a great democrat,and NO ONE was willing to die for the liberation of Eastern Europe ;no one did give a damn about it;the US wanted only one thing
eace and returning home .
After the war the US were dominant and could at every moment (till 1957 )have started a victorious war against the SU to liberate Eastern Europe,but they did not ;why ? Because no one was willing to die for the Czechs ,Poles ,.....
Re: Churchill wanted to use captured Nazi troops to drive the Soviet Union out of Eastern Europe
