Some of these posts are so scary/funny that it's not clear what the authors motivations are- delusional or trolling.
Hitler was a gangster, the rule of law in Germany was trashed by the Nazis and it spread throughout their corrupt rule of the nations they vanguished. His regime used the genuine grievances of the over-reaching reparation demands of the allied forces at the Treaty of Versailles, together with the misplaced belief among many in the German military that they had been betrayed in WW1, to poisonous ends and created a paranoid mindset among the German population that the rest of the world was against them.
Hitler knew what he was doing and was ruthless in his execution of the operations he undertook to reach his goal, whether it was eliminating real or imagined political enemies as well as his mobilisation of his armed forces for wars of conquest. Goering admitted as much after the war when he described the ease with which they motivated the common folk of the population for war by creating the perception of impending peril.
To fall into a 'Hitler was evil therefore Stalin was good' or vice-versa is naive, they were both murderous despots who caused unbelievable harm to those under their governments.
Eisenhower and Roosevelt judged the mood in the USA was not present for continued war in Europe against the USSR and they still had to defeat the Japanese.
The British were exhausted and bankrupt- their energies were more focused on improving the plight of their families at home than looking for another fight. Things rapidly settled down into the cold war with the nations caught between east and west bearing the worst of the suffering.
I believe perhaps the most telling thing that illustrates the difference in the cultures of the major nations that fought in WW2 was what happened to the leader of Britain. He was voted out in the general election and a Labor government was voted in- no armed coup, no 'night of the long knives', no purges, no house arrest.
By the way, I mostly fly online on the ATAG server and tend to fly red to balance the armies.... plus I'm rubbish in a 109 and can't bomb very well.
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