Due to Bush's recent trip to Russia and the Baltic republics, there's been a lot of talk in the blogosphere about Yalta, and whether or not we betrayed eastern Europe by basically handing the keys to the kingdom to Stalin. While it did lead to years of oppression and a whole lot of death, I don't think we had much of a choice. I forget if it was FDR or Truman at Yalta (was Yalta before or after Potsdam, which was definitely Truman, and the conference during which he found out we had achieved the bomb), but with the size of the Red Army, and the fatigue of our own, plus the fact that our army and navy were spread all over the planet finishing up the war, I just don't think it was feasible to stand up to Stalin. He would have laughed in our face, and tkaen what he wanted, and no one could have stopped him. It was an unfortunate situation for eastern Europe, but thankfully most of it is free now.