The Soviets were our allies (though not "Allies" with a capital "A"), and to have turned against them so quickly after being "comrades in arms" would have been perfidious.
However, we should have leveraged our military superiority - first and foremost based upon our "Nuclear Card" - to demand that they scrupulously ensure that fair elections be held in the (later) Eastern Bloc countries. That would have effectively deprived them of the countries in Eastern Europe (including the three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).
Regards,
Any pretense of friendship was abandoned immediately after the conclusion of WWII, if not earlier.
The Berlin Airlift occurred less than three years after the war ended and we had a decent stockpile in inventory before the Soviets successfully tested their first bomb in late ‘49.
Political will notwithstanding, someone like Trump would have pre-empted the Cold War by leveraging the Soviets’ powerlessness against our nuclear arsenal and means of delivering the weapons.
We should have ave saved eastern Europe! That would have been the moral thing to do.
We should have ave saved eastern Europe! That would have been the moral thing to do.