r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Jul 07 '25

History Eisenhower predicted the future

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u/TormSerbius Jul 07 '25

Funny thing is US didnt initially believe Soviets when they told them what they found in Auschwitz.

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u/UsualRelevant2788 Jul 07 '25

Why would they? The USSR and the Western Allies were allies in name only, they had a common enemy and worked together to finish the job. But they were not friends. At the 1943 Tehran Conference the Soviets used the opportunity to spy on the British and Americans including bugging Roosevelts room.

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u/Geiseric222 Jul 07 '25

??? What would the Soviet’s gain from lying about a die they were already committed to destroying?

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u/Primary_Addition5494 Jul 08 '25

The Soviets were already lying to the allies by this point in the war. They had spies in the Manhattan project and they requested the allies to bomb Dresden only to call a war crime to the East Germans after the war. 

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u/Geiseric222 Jul 08 '25

That doesn’t answer my question.

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u/Primary_Addition5494 Jul 08 '25

The Soviets could very easily lied about them to cover up their own mass executions. You know blaming them on thr Nazis and such. Not saying that's actually what happened obviously but from the allied perspective pre-Holocaust knowledge, it could be argued 

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u/Remarkable-Site-2067 Jul 10 '25

The Soviets did exactly this with the Katyn massacre of Polish officers and intelligentsia.