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MRCHalifax t1_j7md3ng wrote

Reply to comment by iMattist in Would the Allies have kept fighting if the axis powers stopped? by Techno-87

> At the end of the war it was a mad rush to take as much territory as possible before the Russians.

It was kind of the opposite in general. Eisenhower was urged by a number of his people to keep heading east, but he was pretty content to mostly stop at the previously agreed upon demarcation line. The end of the war might have been less bloody if he has pressed on. At the end, the Germans were surrendering to the Allies in the hundreds of thousands, and in some cases fighting their way west specifically to surrender to the Allies rather than to the Soviets. But the Germans fought to the bitter end against the Soviets.

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Hattes t1_j7mu3uu wrote

When I was in Berlin on a tour of an old air raid shelter, they told an old joke from that time - that the pessimists in there brought a Russian phrasebook, while the optimists brought an English one.

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cylonfrakbbq t1_j7mteg7 wrote

A British commando that was captured and brought before Rommel told that Rommel had mused it was too bad they couldn’t ally against the Soviets vs fighting each other.

If you look at post WW2 Europe and even Operation Paperclip, the US and Uk knew quite well the USSR was the next enemy. There was even discussed plans to immediately launch an attack on Soviet held territory, although that never moved anywhere considering how taxing the conflict with the Axis had been.

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