[Joshua]

American's Are Losing The Victory In Europe
January 7th, 1946

The whole article is interesting, but this passage stood out to me:

When the British and American came the Viennese felt that at last they were in the hands of civilized people. But instead of coming in with a bold plan of relief and reconstruction we came in full of evasions and apologies.

We know now the tragic results of the ineptitudes of the Peace of Versailles. The European system it set up was Utopia compared to the present tangle of snarling misery. The Russians at least are carrying out a logical plan for extending their system of control at whatever cost. The British show signs of recovering their good sense and their innate human decency. All we have brought to Europe so far is confusion backed up by a drumhead regime of military courts. We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease.

The circumstances are somewhat different, but the attitude expressed in the article is remarkably familiar.

[finboy]

Yeah, "thanks for saving our lifestyle, now leave" has been pretty popular.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by finboy:
Yeah, "thanks for saving our lifestyle, now leave" has been pretty popular.

Considering it resulted in forty years of iron curtain following the article above, you MIGHT want to give the current situation a second thought.

-s*

[Uday's Carcass]

what the heck is this thread about?

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