| 1) Not persecute the Poles. Work to get them alongside an anti-Bolshevik alliance.
2) Not persecute the Byelorussians. Instead of treating them as sub-humans, arm them to defeat the evil Stalin and his brutal, stupid system.
3) Not persecute the Ukrainians. They welcomed Germans with bread and salt. And were machine-gunned, hanged, buried alive. That's winning hearts and minds for you.
4) Not persecuting Jews, including some of the best minds in Europe. The A-Bomb might have come in handy for destroying Stalin's fastness in Zhiguli.
5) Not persecuting the Baltic nations - becoming their liberators, not their murderers.
Simple really. But Hitler was too stupid and blinded by inhuman hatred to get the message.
And so Eastern Europe suffered a further 45 years of oppression after VE-Day.
Michal |