It did the heavy lifting, which is to say that Stalin's Red Army carved up the German Wehrmacht.
Now, with the release of numerous documents from the National Archives about Stalin's murder of over twenty thousand Polish officers and intellectuals in the Katyn forest in 1940, we know in even more detail just how far they were prepared to go to extol and defend the Soviet Union.
What Katyn indicates, I think, is that the West had effectively given up on Poland's freedom far before the Yalta conference.
All along Stalin was intent on installing his Polish creatures based in Lublin as a postwar communist government.
The Polish government in exile in London, by contrast, wanted to investigate the Katyn massacres.
Her father wasn't going to disagree-he had been sent to Moscow to maintain smooth relations, though he tolerated his assistant George F. Kennan, who took a bleak view of Stalin's intentions.
With Stalin's forces overrunning Eastern Europe and the Western allies unwilling, or at least reluctant, to sacrifice the lives of their own troops to attack Berlin, they had a very weak hand to play.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/how-churchill-roosevelt-helped-stalin-cover-the-katyn-massac-7464
Now, with the release of numerous documents from the National Archives about Stalin's murder of over twenty thousand Polish officers and intellectuals in the Katyn forest in 1940, we know in even more detail just how far they were prepared to go to extol and defend the Soviet Union.
What Katyn indicates, I think, is that the West had effectively given up on Poland's freedom far before the Yalta conference.
All along Stalin was intent on installing his Polish creatures based in Lublin as a postwar communist government.
The Polish government in exile in London, by contrast, wanted to investigate the Katyn massacres.
Her father wasn't going to disagree-he had been sent to Moscow to maintain smooth relations, though he tolerated his assistant George F. Kennan, who took a bleak view of Stalin's intentions.
With Stalin's forces overrunning Eastern Europe and the Western allies unwilling, or at least reluctant, to sacrifice the lives of their own troops to attack Berlin, they had a very weak hand to play.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/how-churchill-roosevelt-helped-stalin-cover-the-katyn-massac-7464
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