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English vs. Polish hostility [323]
Sorry torny but your grasp on the situation in spring 45 is as oscypek says way over simplified if not down right factually wrong.
Distence, The RKKA and Polish LWP were at the oder,a distance of some 40 miles,the western allies were only just over the Rhine aproaching the Elbe.
The Americans had no units trained in Guerila warfare,where as the soviets had been succesfully using partizans and rasvidcheks(sp) scout units since 42.
Fighting the germans with aid of weather; your point? every army utilises the weather,but mud was just as deep and snow just as cold for "russians" as germans.
Every one saw that the "russians" couldnt wait to get back at the germans;and the entire free world sanctioned it and saw it as almost the "russians" right after the horrendous crimes commited by the germans all through the soviet union and border states.And frankly "our" leaders were glad that the "russians" had such a thurst for revenge as it meant that they,the "russians" would do the bulk of the fighting and dying.
What exactly do you mean by the soviet union did more damage to its people than the germans? if you mean stalin and his various terrors,probably getting close in actuall numbers killed,but the germans caused the loss of over 27 million people in the western soviet union and states such as belrus ,lithuania etc so in terms of the period 41-45 the statement the germans wernt as bad is fatious and in poor taste.
Down too Roosvelt,lol, no,Roosvelt saw the only real power in the area at the time was the soviet union,which both UK and USA had copiously suppled with war materiel which still only accounted for a small fraction of soviet materiel. Roosvelt and Churchil were playing the long game politicaly and roosvelt passed on the decision to Eisenhower whos saw no gain in expending American lives on capturing what he saw as purly a symbolic landmark.
Nobody desputes large amounts of rapes and lootings took place in berlin and other parts of germany( as a side also in poland but im not dealing with that crime here) the german armies did exactly the same all through the soviet union for the four previous years, the only difference being that while most of the haus frau's are still here to tell ofthe horrible events the germans rather more efficiently tended to round up their victims and burn them in pits.
