"...not a desired goal of the western alliance as you seem to be putting forward." I never intimated that it was a desired goal. It was a compromise. Look up the Tehran conference.
The Tehran conference in 1943 established the Polish borders and a Yugoslavia under Tito.
"Stalin wished for an area in the Eastern part of Poland to be added to the USSR, and for the border to be lengthened elsewhere in the country. Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to this demand, and Poland’s borders were declared to lie along the Oder and Neisse rivers and the Curzon line, despite protests of the Polish government-in-exile in London. Churchill and Roosevelt also gave Stalin free rein in his own country, and allowed the USSR to set up puppet communist governments in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Baltic states, Romania, and other Eastern European countries. After the aforementioned conclusions were made, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin returned to their own countries to carry out war policies, with the agreement that military leaders of the three countries would meet together often, for further discussion. So, thus ended the friendliest and most productive conference of World War II."
"The USSR didn't over run western Europe. Ask yourself why they didn't do so."
""They didn't over run eastern Europe."They most assuredly did. Yes, they were chasing the retreating German army, driving it before them. A real military accomplishment belying the "paper tiger" label you have put on the USSR.
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We are using over run in 2 different senses here. In the first we speak of a new attack by the Soviets. In the second we speak of a war between the Allies and the Axis.
My paper tiger comment referred to post war USSR and their military status compared to the US and NATO. Their equipment didn't work and their reserve weren't in place. |
