re: Gen. George Patton wanted to wipe out the Soviets after defeating the Germans

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Patton would have had a mutiny on his hands, supported by the families back home. The army in Europe nearly did mutiny at plans to send them en masse to the Pacific. Having been told they were fighting to liberate Europe from Nazism, they weren't going to turn around and fight a former"ally" without extreme provocation. Patton understood the strategic picture, but he misunderstood, or chose to ignore, the social and political realuty.

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This. A lot of people may not realize that even in a war that has clear purpose and objectives and what was supposed to be a "good" war had started to become unpopular due to its high costs.

There was a great article about a photo published in Time that showed dead American soldiers for the first time. It was used to re-rally support back home... and this was only in 1943.

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