Not so ironic. We were allied with the Soviet Union in that war.
“Not so ironic. We were allied with the Soviet Union in that war.”
Sadly Eastern Europeans seem to be the ones that remember that most vividly (because of how they spent the next nearly fifty years). Americans should understand the cynicism about the whole war today; while Americans were landing on D-Day to open a second front (to relieve pressure on the USSR), and dying throughout the Pacific fighting the Japanese, the USSR and Japan had a peace treaty in effect. Only in the last few months of the war did the USSR fight the Japanese; just in time to set up a “sphere of influence” that guaranteed the loss of China and included North Korea. Four years later the Nationalists lost the Chinese civil war; a year after that American troops were fighting in Korea.
It is incredible the different takes people have on WWII.