“Too bad we aligned ourselves with the Soviets so closely. Our big WW 2 mistake”
Can’t believe you said that. 20M Russians died in WWII. Russia provided the bodies and we provided weapons, food, supplies. Because of the Russians we got off light. We had about 300K kia’s in the European theater and about 100K in the Pacific. Who knows how the war would have turned out without the Russian meat grinder. I know that we (U.S.) would not have accepted casualties anywhere what the Soviets did. Just as a side note, It was estimated that an invasion of Japan would cost the U.S. around 500K casualties, maybe more. And, Roosevelt and his staff were desperate for an alternative solution. Thankfully, the atomic bomb came on-line at just the right time.
Ten million of those Russians were starved by their own government, and Stalin used the war as an excuse for many atrocities against his own.
Allying ourselves with the Sovs was brilliant at the time - and it was really amusing to watch the American Communists do a 180 about entering the war in June '41 - but permitting the Communists to read our secrets and maybe guide our policies was the FDR regime's greatest blunder/maybe treason.
Didn’t say we shouldn’t have aligned with them. FDR gave away the store like the leftist he was. This gave us 45 years of Cold War. We should have gone into Berlin....not the commies.
Because of Stalin’s carelessness and incompetency, a lot more Soviet citizens died than should have. The Russians won in spite of Stalin.