And you avoid addressing my points, quite the artful dodger. I'll ask again, try to imagine Germany if the U.S. had treated it the way that Russia did. All your deflections and name calling don't change the facts of history; that the U.S. spent a lot of money and effort restoring the parts of Germany that they had occupied and then handed democratic political control back to the people. The Russians, on the other hand, looted the parts it had conquered and then turned them into dystopian "People's Republics" that actually did resemble Orwell's Animal Farm, not to mention Orwell's dystopian 1984.

Patton's ambition was unthinkable as WWII ground to its bloody end, but the globe would have been far safer and saner had the Russians been pushed back to Russia, or even better, had they not been ruled by a megalomanic mass murderer and had simply returned there on their own. The citizens of all the Russian occupied nations would have had the chance to reconstruct their own democracies, avoiding decades of Russian oppression, fear and death. Russia would have been less powerful and possibly would have been content to stay within its own borders, much of the insanity of the Cold War, insanity pursued by both sides, might have been avoided.