[TBP]

Old YAF song (Young Americans for Freedom), to teh tune of “America the Beautiful”:

O infamous for welfare state,
For fascist NRA,
You gave East Europe to the Reds
In Yalta one fine day.
O Roosevelt, oh Roosevelt,
God curse the likes of thee.
The bums you fed
Are glad you’re dead,
And so, by God, are we.

[Jim Noble]

What was Roosevelt supposed to do about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe in February 1945?

The Red Army took Lemberg/Lwow/Lvov/Lviv in June 1944! They were on the Vistula line by August 1944. Army Group Center had been destroyed in Operation Bagration.

Two weeks before Yalta, the Red Army occupied Warsaw, and deployed 163 divisions, 4500 tanks, 13 600 artillery pieces, and 5000 aircraft in the most formidable array of combat power ever seen in the history of the world before or since.

IF something was to be done about postwar arrangements (other than the fait accompli ratified at Yalta), it should have been done by January 1943 at the latest.

Once the Sixth Army surrendered at Stalingrad, the course of European history east of the Oder was set in stone.

[Vigilanteman]

Almost as good as the story told on my grandfather. The previous year (1944), he had lost a teenage son in a hunting accident, had his two eldest sons serving in the war, my uncle in the Marines and my father in the U.S. Navy, his only daughter of working age in Washington, D.C. So he knew a little of tragedy and separation.

A woman accosted him in the local post office the day after FDR died and insisted he agree with her that FDR died for his country every bit as much as our men in uniform. Finally, he agreed, then added, "but he should have done it at least four years sooner!"