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“the Polish people be allowed to have a voice in the kind of govt. they want. Under the Yalta Pact the Soviets agreed they…

— Ronald Reagan

“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the destruction of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“After fighting for four long years, we were completely surprised by the Soviets’ efforts to absorb Eastern Europe, and their rejection of almost all wartime…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“And there were no signs whatever of the disagreements among capitalists—or of the Anglo-American war—that Stalin’s ideological illusions had led him to expect.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a…

— Adolf Hitler

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But…

— W. Averell Harriman

“More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members of the…

— Nigel Hamilton

“The Soviets were content to give Hitler the green light for an assault on Poland because they saw ways of capitalizing on it. German…

— Robert Gellately

“Stalin has stolen more than lands. Hannelore, he has stolen human dignity. I see it in their forlorn eyes and broken posture. It's all…

— Ruta Sepetys

“systematic ethnic cleansing of the Polish population, in some cases completely eliminating entire Polish communities in order to establish racial purity. It was only…

— Hourly History

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never…

— W. Averell Harriman

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

— W. Averell Harriman