[Chad C. Mulligan]

@gleeaikin: Not to belittle it, but your family's story is just one of millions that I've read about. Russian troops were positively medieval in their treatment of civilians everywhere they went. It's no wonder at all why German troops were welcomed as liberators in Ukraine and Georgia.

The book Bloodlands describes some of it. A book I cannot face reading for a second time.

One of the greatest crimes of the war was FDR's abandonment of Poland to Russian hegemony at Tehran. Churchill knew, but at that point was leading a nation made bankrupt by America's prewar isolationism, and could do nothing.

[Glad2bnuts]

Britain was bankrupt by their Empire that they couldn’t hold onto. The same way the US is bankrupt, except we lost every war since 2.