Stalin - "We" supported him - Could never trust him!
Stalin - "We" supported him - Could never trust him!
The "allies" could never have trusted Stalin as far as they could throw him.
Can anyone remember this blokes name?
Do you remember who cut ties with France and Britain so he could jump into bed with Hitler?
Do you remember September 1939?
Do you remember who made a pact with Hitler so he was free to start his war in Europe?
Do you remember who continued to trade with Germany after the war commenced against the Allies in 1939?
Do you remember who signed a secret protocol with Germany that they would not assist Britain and France against Germany if Germany invaded Poland.
Do you remember that during the first years of the war, this economic agreement helped Germany bypass the British blockade.
Do you remember who invaded Poland with Hitler and agreed on a carve up of that country?
Do you remember who slaughtered thousands of those Polish soldiers and citizens in his grab for a "Sphere of Influence" in Poland.
Do you remember who took over the countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in his grab for land?
Do you remember the 150,000 people in those Baltic states he sent to their deaths by massacre and deportation to labour camps in the first year.
Te answer, Joseph Stalin.
Without the assistance of the allies in men and materiel and the loss of 140,000 allied airmen over Germany destroying their ability to wage war, the Soviet Union would most likely have been defeated.
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945.