re: Russia and China were big allies with USA during World War II.

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We were never allies with Russia. We lent them weaponry, fuel and supplies until we entered the war. Enemies of your enemies are NOT your friends, just temporary teammates.

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The problem was that Russian leaders were under tremendous pressure to demonstrate to the world that communism was better than capitalism and that the whole world should join them. Long before WWII they were driven by false messages and propaganda about how great they were doing. That's why after WWII they taught school children that 'the allies' did not win WWII. The Russians won it.

There were some Americans in govt who agreed with them about communism (McCarthy was right). But there were lots of people in US govt and our military that wanted as little to do with them as possible because they knew Russia couldn't be trusted.

We were allied with the Republic of China, not the Chinese Communist Party. After the war, the CCP won the civil war and the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan.

Is your assessment of my shite getting stale an accurate and reliable one, you think? Because I can easily see that you didn’t even fully read it because had you done so you’d have noticed where I clearly said the alliance lasted to the end of the war. So I feel inclined to respond with fair retaliation for your offensive aggression towards me. Unwarranted and most importantly…..wrong.

So here goes: do us all a favor but more importantly do yourself a favor and don’t attempt any more thinking and definitely no more attempts at communicating. Just sit back and stay out of the way. You’ve managed to lower our entire group average to a lower level. Could you do that for us possibly, stray mutt?

Don’t be fooled by the nice guy stuff…..I’m pretty skilled in the insult and attack game too.

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ChewyDante

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nailed it.

Occasionally popular culture, especially Hollywood, provides insight into the mindset of the US government towards its allies and adversaries. There are two movies, ironically both screwball comedies made just 3 years apart, which demonstrated the dramatic shift in US-Soviet relations.

The first, Comrade X, made in 1940 and actually released just as WWII began in earnest in Europe, portrays the USSR as a brutal, ugly, hopelessly corrupt regime, capable of senseless slaughter of their own citizens (and even the murder of their own government officials) just to maintain control - pretty dark stuff for a comic farce, but it works.



Then, in 1943 with the US fully involved, came this Warner Bros adaptation of a successful Broadway comedy, The Doughgirls, which is as close as they ever came to making a live-action Looney Tunes cartoon. In it Eve Arden (who is also featured in Comrade X) plays a Soviet sniper who befriends the title characters, and is praised for “killing Nyatzis” and extols the virtues of “Uncle Joe”.



There are countless other examples of prewar ethnic stereotypes of Germans, Italians and Japanese shown in positive lights, before they became either incompetent fools or bloodthirsty monsters after Pearl Harbor.

But make no mistake - we were full on allies with the USSR for the duration. Truman even notified Stalin of the existence of the A-Bomb at Potsdam, before the American people found out about it.

An interesting fact about the war, and this is when China was not communist, I think it just shows culture persists no matter the govt.

During the war the US wanted to build a large airstrip in China to fight the Japanese in china and stop their advance. China wanted the US to pay for it. Now mind you this is during the time period of "the rape of Nanking" some real nasty things the Japanese were doing to the chinese, but they held off wanting the US to pay for it. So the US agreed.

Further delays because the chinese wanted to be paid in gold. So we agreed.

Further delays because they were bickering amongst themselves over who would get what cut of the overpricing for themselves. Eventually they built it.....by hand with thousands of peasants who didnt get paid diddly.

Some things never change.

China technically wasn’t “China” during that time. Soon afterwards with help from Russia, they became mass murders alone with The USSR

Were weren’t allies with Russia, we had an agreement/non aggression pact that was immediately needed at the conclusion of wwII

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Russia and China were big allies with USA during World War II

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Enemy of my enemy is my friend

That's only because of the Philosophers' Legacy.

The craziest thing about World War 2 was that China was in the middle of a civil war when Japan invaded, and both sides of the civil war united to fight the Japanese

...only to go back to fighting their civil war the minute after Japan was defeated.