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The modern narrative is that the red army was tired and ragged and over worked and under supplied and moving on pure strength of will.
Or at least, that is how everyone explains away why Russia, in the final months of the war raped a path across Europe, including their own women in the Russian country side.
So, which is it? They were a powerful modern war machine in 1945, staffed by rapist and pedophiles, or a ragged bunch pushed so far that they could no longer make moral decisions?
I have to disagree with your premise that not allowing Russia to take Berlin would have stopped the cold war though. As soon as FDR died the cold war was going to happen. FDR had a good relationship with Stalin but Truman was full on antagonistic. It didn't matter Russia took Berlin or not, they were still going to be a power and Truman was going to start a fight with them no matter what.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
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