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F6, Dean Baker's Stabbed in the Back! is a beauty! .. bits ..

A growing chorus of right-wing voices now began to excoriate our wartime diplomacy. Their most powerful charge, one that would firmly establish the Yalta myth in the American political psyche, was the accusation that our delegation had given over Eastern Europe to the Soviets. According to “How We Won the War and Lost the Peace,” an essay written for Life magazine shortly before the 1948 election by William Bullitt—a former diplomat who had been dismissed by Roosevelt for outing a gay rival in the State Department—FDR and his chief adviser, Harry Hopkins, were guilty of “wishful appeasement” of Stalin at Yalta, handing the peoples of Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Baltic states over to the Soviet dictator.

The right wing's dolchstosslegende was a small but fateful conspiracy, engineered through “secret diplomacy” at Yalta.
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most interesting, Yalta, assuming some truth to this one

Second World War

The Allied policy of unconditional surrender .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional_surrender .. was devised in 1943 in part to avoid a repetition of the stab-in-the-back theme. According to historian John Wheeler-Bennett .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wheeler-Bennett , speaking from the British perspective,

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It was necessary for the Nazi régime and/or the German Generals to surrender unconditionally in order to bring home to the German people that they had lost the War of themselves; so that their defeat should not be attributed to a "stab in the back".
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.. see bottom here .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth

is that Yalta was then used in a domestic American conservative dolchstoss trip.

.. then farther down MacArthur's ..

MacArthur later added that had he been permitted, he not only would have launched as many as fifty atomic bombs but also would have used “wagons, carts, trucks, and planes” to create “a belt of radioactive cobalt” that would neatly slice the Korean thumb from China. “For at least sixty years,” he said, “there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the north.”
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sheesh, that MacArthur atomic bomb idea and his radioactive belt, both new to me, just as the big picture political dolchstosslegende was .. thank you for that article! .. lol, will get to the Malloy vids eventually .. :)