@Waldbrand @GoodBoyUV Being a mercenary in Africa in the 50's was probably awesome, and so was being a former SS in South America back then (lads were hardly regarded).

Objectively, Germany and Central/Eastern Europe were occupied by the Soviets just because America wanted that to happen.

After the war and throwing the Nukes over Japan, the USSR was very spent on resources and manpower. Patton wanted to keep moving East and ahem "died in an accident", then America gave all these territories to Stalin and resources to rearm them.

During the war, America was the big supplier of the USSR, without America giving food and raw materials to the Soviets, Germany could have reached a stalemate on the East.

Before the war, America was using Poland as their attack dog, doing provocations and not willing to accept any land deals (from all the stolen German land).

The real question is why did America give all those territories to the USSR? To me the answer is simple, they wanted to punish Central/Eastern Europe for siding with Hitler. And the leaders counted with centuries of wars / enmity to do its thing once they were under Soviet (Russian and Jewish) occupation.

My family never lived under Soviet occupation, but I can relate to how that sucked balls in many ways. There were some tangential positives from USSR wanting to show off the Warsaw Pact and giving resources to culture stuff, some democratized education, and the protection against niggerization and financial capitalism, both inside the Iron Curtain and because of WP existing it prevented the West from going full throttle like it's happening now.