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Reform candidate said UK should have been neutral against Hitler (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I mean....

At a dinner meeting of the Big Three on Nov. 29, Stalin proposed executing 50,000 to 100,000 German officers so that Germany could not plan another war. Roosevelt, believing Stalin was not serious, quipped that “maybe 49,000 would be enough.”

Churchill, however, was outraged and denounced “the cold-blooded execution of soldiers who fought for their country.” Before storming out of the room, he said that only war criminals should be put on trial. Stalin brought him back after saying that he was only joking.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/fdr-attends-tehran-conference-nov-28-1943-231852

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Stalin said he was joking, but probably wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Given how WW2 started Stalin should have thrown himself into the mix.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

How's that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

waow-based

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Roosevelt, believing Stalin was not serious, quipped that “maybe 49,000 would be enough.”

Gets me every time

Also worth noting that 50k represented a tiny fraction of the Nazi military -- there were well over a million people under arms right up until the end of the war. So Stalin and Roosevelt were already talking about officers and units that did the worst atrocities, not some mass retribution against the bulk of the military itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interested in what your "moral of the story" is?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brits fucking suck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Why? Are we forgetting that Britain spent 6 years fighting the Nazis?