So you think 3-5 million people left to starve to death while the food they produced was being exported was an “improvement”? This is how it looks from the outside? Genocide is an improvement?
This is what industrialization in the 20th century usually looked like, growth in the expense of human, nothing out of the ordinary. Before the Soviet industrialization effort, Ukraine is just a big farm land for Russia, in a generation those farmland are producing missiles, ships, aircrafts, computers etc.
Ukrainians went from just the subject of Moscow into the positions of power and prestige, occupying the highest post in the land like Khruschev. Is that not an improvement ?
I would make some changes to your statement:
Roosevelt APPEASED Stalin and whole Eastern Europe paid the price for his BETRAYAL.
How is Roosevelt betraying anyone in Eastern Europe ? The immidiate post WW2 global order in simplified form is the allies get all the ocean, the Russians get all the land, meaning Russia get recognized for its suzerainty on eastern Europe and Central Asia, while global commerce at sea dominated by the allies.
It wasn't until 1946 that the West really took an antagonistic approach to Soviet Russia with the so called long telegram by US diplomat George Kennan.
76 years ago today, George Kennan, an American diplomat living in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word telegram to Truman’s State Department...
www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org
Add to the fact that the U.S/allies has no obligation for the protection of Eastern Europe before the war (with the exception of Poland). So how is he betraying something that he never committed in the first place ?
