By smashing Germany and Japan Churchill and Rooseveldt put Eastern Europe, Russia and China under Communism?

Question

This held these countries back for 50 years. Does this make the warmonger Churchill the villian of the 20th century? If not why not?

If Germany had been given a free hand Russia and Russian Communism would have been smashed and Russia would not have been able to support Mao in China, where the Japs would have beaten him.
As for Eastern Europe it would of course not have become part of the Russian Communist block. It's regretable that this explanation should be necessary, but clearly the general understanding of history on this forum requires it.

Answer 1

No, because the communist revolution had already occurred in Russia and WWII provided the catalyst for Russia to move into a weakened eastern Europe after the war. Stalin was as bad as Hitler and communism has been the single greatest oppressive ideology in the history of mankind next to Islam.

Answer 2

I think so far that Gentsocar has the best answer. Everyone else is long winded and strays off the point. Churchill and Roosevelt didn't put anybody under anything. By defeating the fascists (except for Spain) they created a void which the (preexisting) ideology of communism filled. Part two of your question: those countries were in fact not held back, they advanced rapidly industrially more rapidly than any country previously. Including the U.S. Who sent the first satellite into outer space after all? China is still communist and will soon pass us industrially and economically. Eastern Europe was and still is a volital area, witness Bosnia. Well that's my two cents worth. You're question is invalid and what's more it is not even a question!

Answer 3

Russia was already communist before WWII. They became communist right after WWI. Russia subjugated eastern Europe to communism as the "liberators" from Nazi rule in those countries. While the British and the Americans were advancing through Germany from the west, the Russians were advancing through Germany from the east. The Iron Curtain pretty much divided Europe based on which army liberated the area from the Nazis.

China fell to communism after WWII as the result of an insurgency which began under Japanese occupation.

Therefore the entire premise of your question is false.

Answer 4

Don't be raging on Churchill. Eastern Europe was already under Communism under Lenin before Stalin, so what does Churchill have anything to do with it?
You sound like a Nazi who wants to pick a fight. Besides, since the Fall of Communisim in Eastern Europe in 1989, Eastern Europe has been plagued with many problems. Maybe Communism wasn't such a bad thing for these people.

Answer 5

Churchill told everybody the Allied forces should meet the Russian as far East as possible. China had nothing to do with Churchill and FDR it had to do with the fact the there was a revolution by the Chinese people. And if it wasn't for the English stand up to Hitler night after night and the BRAVE men at Normandy you would not have the right to make questions like this one.

Answer 6

The alternative would've been a communist-ruled Europe, not just eastern europe. Without D-day and push to the Rhine, the allies would've been looking at the Iron Curtain on the coast of France.

Answer 7

Russia was already under communism ;)

As for China... well, blame the corrupt and lazy nationalists for not fighting as zealously as the commies.

As for Eastern Europe... well, we fell into a hard bargain with Stalin on that one.

Now, should Churchill be villified? Nah. Blame the Soviets for what they did to their satellite states.

Answer 8

Sorry,but Russia was a communist nation before WW2,thats why Hitler did not trust Stalin.