[Tallguy]

I would like to think our leaders were just stupid, but that is very difficult.

I think that Churchill & Roosevelt were both worried about casualties to their own troops. Having the Soviets take on the bulk of the German Army was a double-edged strategy.

[David Isaac]

Then they made a serious miscalulation in the last few months of the war, letting the Russians take and hold half of Europe, instead of themselves racing east as fast as they could go.