Posted on 10/02/2005 7:12:17 AM PDT by decimon
MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands (Reuters) -- Grandsons of the three World War II allied leaders who attended the 1945 Yalta conference met for the first time on Saturday and defended the talks which some have blamed for triggering the Cold War.
With the German army in retreat and Hitler's vision of a Nazi-controlled continent in tatters, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met at the Black Sea resort to decide how to occupy Germany and reorganise Europe into spheres of influence.
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I wonder if Alger Hiss's grandson was there to advise FDR's grandson and make sure that Eastern Europe fell to the Soviet empire after the war? Did Stalin's grandson bug FDR's grandson's room? Never forget that the Free World was betrayed by communist infiltrators who owed their primary allegiance to Stalin. Don't forget that some of them and their followers are still doing the same thing today.
Thats where the commie sympathizer fdr gave stalin Eastern Europe on a silver platter, a tragedy that took decades to reverse... by the greatest president of the 20th century.
i was taught that FDR was weak and frail at Yalta and thats why he was so easily duped by stalin. Have come to believe that FDR did exactly what he had always wanted to do, namely support the communist movement. and was happy he did it.
Eastern Europe had fallen to the Soviets before the end of the war. What it would have taken to get it back is one question. Another is whether the U.S. public would have been willing to engage back-to-back wars.
Nonsense, Roosevelt was no communist.
FDR was a communist thru and thru...One does not have to be a card carrying member to be a communist.
Do a lot of diverse reading about the three....You will find that Churchill was in disagreement with FDR most of the time.
According to the best source on the subject, Whittaker Chambers, FDR and the major members of his cabinet were not communists. It was Hiss, Pressman, and Lawrence Duggan who were. Harry Dexter White was a fellow traveler though who did not carry a card. There were plenty of security breaches in the 1930s which resulted in much hardship for Europe in the remainder of the Twentieth Century. FDR may have been the watch commander when this infiltration started to take place. However, he was no communist and certainly no traitor.
.....And sell out Poland.
My question is what we could have done about that. Military action?
Guilt yes. Churchill says in some of his musings that he knew full well that he was less than a junior partner. For shear size and weight, the US and USSR dwarfed any effort by Britain.
Meh... He won WWII, good enough for me.
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