No, not at all. I'm arguing that FDR - being the Socialist he was -
was far warmer to the Soviets than he needed to be. They were a
necessary ally, but effectively conceding Eastern Europe to them
was probably unnecessary. You seem to like history a lot. I cannot
recomment "The Mitrokhin Archive" highly enough. It is a real insight
into what was going on from the Boleshevik Revolution forward. It is
simply a 'Must Read' for students of history of that time and place.

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Actually towards the end of the war the Russians occupied eastern Europe
advancing on a wide front before we even had got to Berlin .Posession being
nine tenths of the law what were we supposed to do oust them from their
captured territory? it was a fait accompli.

At the beginning of the war the Russians were allied with the Germans,
Germany essentially gave them latvia ,Estonia and I think Lithuania.

They occupied Poland and systematically executed the entire officer corps of
the Polish army, and as many intellectuals they could lay hands on .

I had two uncles both captains in the British army in the British
expeditionary force who were captured at the beginning of the war by the
Germans . They were handed over to the Russians and spent the whole war in a
Russian POW camp in Russia.

I think they were allies by the time the US got into the war....mjh