I found an old Buzz feed post that I made back in 2010 that I want to capture here because it is about a topic that has always bothered me.  The fact that we continue to treat the Soviet Union as a friend and ally in the great war against the evil Nazis is infuriating.  The reality is that when Germany rolled into Poland from the west the Soviets were rolling in from the East.  This and the fact that Stalin has just as much innocent blood on his hands as Hitler are both rarely mentioned.  I understand that at the time the allied governments felt they needed the Soviets to win the war but we should have treated them as the aggressors that they were and given them only enough aid to occupy the German forces.  Once victory was assured by the fall of 44 we should have ended our relationship and given them nothing at the end of the war.

My post form 2010:

"What the President fails to mention is that the meeting at the Elbe was nothing more than handing half of Europe over from one tyrant to another.  Joseph Stalin was just as evil as Adolf Hitler and the Soviets were not heroes who fought back the invading Germans but rather accomplices in the start of the war who were later betrayed  by their German allies.

Statement by the president commemorating the meeting of US and Soviet troops in 1945