genuinely people who hold this opinion and wonder wistfully about it should be executed by firing squad. The ‘Armchair historian’ youtube channel just did a whole thing about it and genuinely i regard this man as worthy of being dumped in acid for this video alone.
the allies after going to war with the nazis, declaring war on the soviets, rebuilding the fascist army, would probably lose spectacularly.
Im not saying that that soviets would have rolled over them like paper, but the idea that the allies would gain any more than a Pyrrhic stalemate after losing in france and italy is so fucking dumb. the people who know the devastation after ww2 and are like ‘i want another one just to destroy the soviets’ are as anticommunist as the nazis and should be treated as such. they should also follow their fucking leader.
what also isn’t being considered is that the contradictions at home in Western countries were being pushed to the limits and people were living very insecure existences - ripe for disorder - so there was a lot of communist support at home in the west.
You try telling these people who have just witnessed the triumph of the red army that you’re now doing ANOTHER war and going on the offensive against them for no reason that matters to a civilians life at home.