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ArishMell · 70-79, M
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There was no "Eastern Bloc" until after World War Two, and your (BS') later remark about British cowardice then laughing about it, is as wrong as it is offensive.
Although Prime Minister Chamberlain had tried to appease Hitler, it was Britain who declared war on Nazi Germany after Hitler disregarded that, having already put his expansionist invasion plans in motion.
The USA originally tried to stay neutral, thinking it merely a European argument, until dragged into it when her Pacific island was attacked by the Japanese (who had already tried to invade China, at the time still a monarchy). However, once fighting, she did prove a very powerful and valuable ally against both the Germans and the Japanese.
The "Eastern Bloc" as the Soviet-controlled territories became called, was a carve-up after the Nazis had been defeated, by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. All it achieved was cementing what by then the USSR (our allies after Hitler tried to invade what had been his ally) had done: securing those countries by force, with no intention of returning them to their own people. Britain and the USA knew that would happen but after several years of war, were unable to prevent what Winston Churchill graphically described as "an iron curtain descending across Europe" - for the next roughly 50 years, as it turned out.
BS: Before you try mocking another contributor's country you know little if anything about, it might help to know the major points of 20C European and Asian history. Were you not taught them at school?
There was no "Eastern Bloc" until after World War Two, and your (BS') later remark about British cowardice then laughing about it, is as wrong as it is offensive.
Although Prime Minister Chamberlain had tried to appease Hitler, it was Britain who declared war on Nazi Germany after Hitler disregarded that, having already put his expansionist invasion plans in motion.
The USA originally tried to stay neutral, thinking it merely a European argument, until dragged into it when her Pacific island was attacked by the Japanese (who had already tried to invade China, at the time still a monarchy). However, once fighting, she did prove a very powerful and valuable ally against both the Germans and the Japanese.
The "Eastern Bloc" as the Soviet-controlled territories became called, was a carve-up after the Nazis had been defeated, by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. All it achieved was cementing what by then the USSR (our allies after Hitler tried to invade what had been his ally) had done: securing those countries by force, with no intention of returning them to their own people. Britain and the USA knew that would happen but after several years of war, were unable to prevent what Winston Churchill graphically described as "an iron curtain descending across Europe" - for the next roughly 50 years, as it turned out.
BS: Before you try mocking another contributor's country you know little if anything about, it might help to know the major points of 20C European and Asian history. Were you not taught them at school?
