There are certain implications about the way that
Roosevelt and Churchill may have compromised their "beliefs" in allowing Stalin to have
his way in Eastern Europe, but in many ways they shared a great deal of common ground
about how they felt about certain ethnic groups (remember both Churchill and Roosevelt
imprisoned German refugees, many of the Jewish as well as Japanese, etc., though
thankfully neither of them ordered millions of them to be killed!) but it wasn't a
matter of two great idealists giving in to a communist
monster.
If you read their correspondence prior to the war
(an interesting and certainly strongly biased yet valuable account of some of their
writings can be found in Nicholson Baker's book "Human Smoke") they were in many ways
very interested in getting involved in the war and obviously felt that Stalin's
participation was vital (and if you look at the way the Eastern Front destroyed
Germany's armies you have to understand how vital it was) to their desires to win the
war. So if their belief was that they needed to win the war, they didn't really
compromise a great deal in allowing Stalin free reign in Eastern
Europe.
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