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I like this quote:
“We live in a free world today because in 1945 the forces of imperfect goodness defeated the forces of near-perfect evil.” - Michael DiPaulo, a French consular officer addressing American veterans of World War II in 2001.
Hitler was bad, but after reading just a bit about the Russia under Stalin, I'm thinking Stalin was worse. The only reason we allied with the USSR is because western Europe was living in fantasy land.
I came across it on Execupundit.com, but he didn't provide the source, so I asked the great and powerful Oz, who delivered this page.
Excellent quote! very true.
ReplyDeleteThe Russians were our allies, we were supplying them with materiel like planes even before Dec 7th, they also suffered more than most losing millions of people. At the end of the war in Europe we were still fighting the Japs. Russia was strong and everyone else was sick of war.
True Stalin was worse than Hitler, and to his own people as well as neighbors, but fighting them was not an option. The people wouldn't stand for it, the cold war was guaranteed income for the military-industrial complex, and Stalin was Russia's problem not ours, not because of the west being in fantasyland.
And believe it or not I'm a card carrying Lifetime Charter Member of the WWII Memorial Society.
Patton felt that we fought on the wrong side in WW2. Then he "accidentally" died.
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