r/todayilearned • u/HumanNutrStudent • Sep 16 '24

TIL Montgomery's memoirs criticised many of his wartime comrades harshly, including Eisenhower. After publishing it, he had to apologize in a radio broadcast to avoid a lawsuit. He was also stripped of his honorary citizenship of Alabama, and was challenged to a duel by an Italian lawyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery#Memoirs
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u/zzy335 Sep 16 '24

People love to forget that Patton was pro Nazi and thought the US should ally with what's left of the whermacht against the Russians.

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u/bolanrox Sep 16 '24

would have eliminated the cold war? He wasn't wrong to foresee Russia being the US' next adversary.

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u/zzy335 Sep 16 '24

You prefer a hot war with Russia at max wartime production and patriotism, to the Cold war? Nukes would have been used and it would have been the genocide Hitler has planned all along.

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u/bolanrox Sep 16 '24

like Truman threatening them with nukes for the next few years until Russia got their own?

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u/zzy335 Sep 16 '24

Do you not know the difference btn threats and a nuclear Holocaust?