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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 6 days ago

Should the US have continued and wiped out the Soviet Union after they won WWII?

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  • Anonymous
    20 mins ago

    After detonation of nuke bombs in Japan , US were virtually Lord of the entire planet : they could have done whatever they wanted even against Soviet Union , but they didn't .

    They helped anyone to rebuild their countries : thanks, US, for everything you have done !!!

  • 12 hours ago

    Yes and...No.   Yes because the damage the soviets did to the world and they are still doing to the world. However the world was too tired of war by that point and there was much destruction that had to be rebuilt and repaired and the will was just not there.

    But I do think the allies did the Polish people a major wrong by selling them out the soviets.   But the nature of Russians even to this day is once they set foot somewhere, they never relinquish it voluntarily. I believe they still occupy some island that belongs to Japan to this day, and Kaliningrad is another example.

  • 2 days ago

    I can't even imagine that, really.  First, USSR was an ally during the war.  Second, we were pretty tired of total war and needed some peace.  

    As long as the USSR didn't attack Western nations, Western nations were not about to attack the USSR.  It would have been another terrible war, and for what?

    We never did go to war with the USSR, and that is a good thing.  The Communist regime fell of its own accord.  

    China doesn't quite look like falling, but who knows?  In any case, they are not going to attack Western countries directly.  They took Hong Kong, next they will be going after Taiwan, and meanwhile  they use less conventional methods.  

  • 3 days ago

    We wouldn have to spend trillions on the Marshall program for Germany and trillions more to rebuild the USSR.

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  • Anonymous
    4 days ago

    Yes and joined the Germans.

  • JuanB
    Lv 7
    4 days ago

    And have no trust from the rest of Europe and the rest of the first world?  Not to mention that is what the Nazi's attempted and failed at.  Took Soviets as an ally and first chance they got attacked them.

    You do realize once Germany fell the US was still fighting Japan?   but after Japan fell, helping fight communism in China might have been more usuful.  think of how threats would look today?  Consider how Korean war would have gone if china was not involved.

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  • 5 days ago

    No.  The Soviets had more personnel and tanks and artillery than the US, who would have had to go it alone and would not have had the support of the other Allied nations.  The Soviet Army numbered over 11 million.  On VE day, the US had 3 million military personnel in Europe.  The remaining 9 million US forces were mostly in the Pacific and most of the 3+ million in the Navy wouldn't have been of much use against the Russians.

  • Truth
    Lv 7
    5 days ago

    of course.  stalin killed 50 m of his own people after the war. he stu up the kims in north korea, with children in concentration camps to this day.  

  • Anonymous
    6 days ago

    Maybe it's possible you wouldn't have been born if the US had.

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