boberz wrote:yeah at last something we all agree on and not only that it is a very interesting subject. The real winners of the war were Russia and USA who both became superpowers at the end of the war. The rest of us are screwed compared to where we were.
The Cold War is all the Americans fault in my opinion. Churchill knew that the Russians were not to be trusted. He tried to warn the American president that they were not to be trusted but he liked Stalin and trusted him.
Churchill predicted what would happen even before World War II ended. He knew that the Russians would be a threat in the future. Unfortunately the Americans realised this too late and the Russians never withdrew from the territories they conquered from the Germans thus creating the iron curtain and the Warsaw Pact.
Britain's Empire was sacrificed for the war. It paid America huge loans for the military support it received. I believe they are still paying some of them to this day, so do not think American support did not come at a price. Of course after the war with Britain, France and Germany severely weakened the Russians and the Americans emerged as the new super powers and a new world order had been created.
