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Entry: The Scapegoating of Churchill? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/the_scapegoating_of_churchill#27933 Post contents: Mr Piatak: Yalta is quite different from Munich, but for reasons distinct from the ones you cite. The key distinction is over what could be accomplished by pressure. Churchill criticized the Munich settlement in part because it was possible at that point to put pressure on Germany with the threat of war, since British armaments surpassed German weaponry. But this fact was foolishly ignored by Chamberlain. In 1945, an all-out war with the 6 million strong Red Army over Poland would have been ill-advised, and was rejected by most Allied leaders (except Gen Patton). FDR's refusal to have an occupying US army past 1947 in Europe abandoned the last bit of pressure which could've been exerted on Stalin at the time. This reflected poorly on FDR, not Churchill. Sent at: 2009 01 09