The late Hiram Johnson trumpeted in the United States Senate a question which has never been answered. He said:
"Good God! Did we ever sink so low before as to choose one cutthroat out of two? This man (Stalin) was Hitler's ally... Now we furnish him with weapons which may be turned upon us."
Senator Hiram Johnson's fearful prediction was accurate; the aid we gave the Soviets was turned against us.
When General Patton's army was only thirty miles from Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, Eisenhower ordered Patton to halt and hold the German armies at bay; to accept no German surrenders, so that the Soviets could move in from the east to take over the German armies and the nation of Czechoslovakia. After the Soviets moved in, Patton was ordered to evacuate Czechoslovakia. A few weeks later, the Americans had to beg for permission to participate in a Soviet "victory parade" in Prague. In a similar way, the great American Ninth Army was pulled back from the gates of Berlin and used to hold German armies and civilians at bay until the Soviets could arrive to reap the "fruits" of conquest.
As German power thus disintegrated in central Europe, the Soviets - using supplies and equipment which we had given them - moved in to rape, pillage and enslave. They used our aid to control the conquered populations and to install and support their puppet communist governments.
It was with our money that the Soviets paid, maintained and gave bonuses to their own armies of occupation. It was with our aid that they dismantled German rocket-producing plants and atomic-energy laboratories and transported them to Russia. It was with our help that they took over rich uranium mines in Eastern Germany. It was with our acquiescence and aid, that they kidnapped thousands of Germany's best scientists and technicians and shipped them to Russia where they designed the super-weapons with which Khrushchev today intimidates the world.
It was American personnel who seized and herded into boxcars literally millions of refugees from communism who were shipped like animals to slavery and slaughter in the Soviet Union.
It was American equipment and supplies which the Soviet Siberian armies used in the rape of Manchuria, after we had defeated Japan. Chinese communists used this same American material to make war on our ally, Chang Kai Shek.
Finally in Korea, communist power which American aid had built into a menacing colossus was turned directly against American soldiers!
From The Dan Smoot Report, p. 213 of July 4, 1960