Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Polish Navy - Founding to the Fall of Poland" video.

  1. Search 'On Eternal Patrol - USS Grampus (SS-207)'
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  2. 'Handed over?' Hardly. Poland was taken by the Soviet army as the Germans retreated. What leads you to suggest that 'handed over' is in any way an appropriate term?
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  3.  @wazza33racer  Poles didn't fight for 'democracy' in 1939. They fought because their country had been invaded. Exactly what 'negotiating power' did Churchill & FDR have over Stalin. By the time any issue arose, the Russians no longer needed Western aid. At Yalta, Stalin had agreed to post-war elections in Poland. Were the western allies expected to know that he would not honour the agreement?
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  4.  @wazza33racer  I'm sure sea power would have been of considerable use against the Soviet Union. The British and Americans could have sent their battlefleets up the Volga, I suppose? The benefits the Soviets had received in the middle part of the war from Anglo-American aid were, by 1945, of historical interest only, and Patton's opinions, not shared by the more intelligent members of the Allied Senior Command, by the way, are hardly worth considering, given that at the time he was proposing re-arming German army & SS troops for use against the Soviets. Finally, please explain how Truman and Churchill/Attlee could, even theoretically, have justified an Anglo-American attack on the Soviets, after years of praising gallant Uncle Joe and the valiant Russian people, to the peoples of the US & the British Empire/Commonwealth?
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  5.  @wazza33racer  This would be the FDR who was dead, and the Churchill who was in opposition from July, 1945, I suppose? You haven't, by the way, explained how the British, American, Canadian, Australian, & New Zealand public would have reacted to your enthusiastic idea about attacking the Soviet Union.
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  6. In one word : ARMOUR.
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