Comments by "kokofan50" (@kokofan50) on "The Cold War" channel.

  1. The Soviets were nowhere near having nuclear weapons in WW2, and their manpower was heavily strained even in 1942/43.
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  2. Heroes are not saints.
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  3. Capitalism and communism are mortal enemies bound to fight by their very nature, and some people think it would have been better to have fought it out at the end of the war, rather than the proxy wars and other shenanigans of the Cold War.
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  4. You’re giving communists way too much credit for working together. The British had to stop giving the French resistance weapons because they there using them against each other rather than against the Germans.
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  5. Part of a couple cities getting nuked isn’t a big problem. Poison gas isn’t actually all that effective, and any Soviet bombers would have been shot down long before getting to their targets. You seem to think partisans were only communists helping the Soviets. The Soviets had a brutal campaign against partisans fighting them as they invaded the neutral countries in Eastern Europe.
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  6. “Impossible” seems to mean different things to Americans then. Here in the US impossible means really hard. To everyone else it seems to mean can’t be done.
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  7. First, Marshall picked Eisenhower. Second, Eisenhower was Jewish. Third, Eisenhower was the best for the job as his performance showed.
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  8. A B-29 could fly all the way from a base in France to Moscow and back.
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  9. The US didn’t want to get involved to begin with, but once in the fight, Americans fight to win.
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