It was apparently said after the Allied took Berlin. That was around the time that the East and West met in the middle, and the US saw how vicious and terrible the soviets were.
This is rarely discussed, but the atrocities committed by the soviets as they invaded Germany in WWII are beyond horrific. Stalin literally sent condemned murderers and madmen to the front lines, so the barbaric nature of their actions were expected. Patton was made more and more aware over time of how terrifying Bolshevism really was, and how it needed to be stopped before it could spread.
Patton: "We fought the wrong enemy"
US Gov: Kill Patton
History Books: Just forget Patton ever said that, poor guy died in a freak accident, nothing to see there.
Did Patton really say that? Crazy, I was just about to ask if that was true.
It was apparently said after the Allied took Berlin. That was around the time that the East and West met in the middle, and the US saw how vicious and terrible the soviets were.
This is rarely discussed, but the atrocities committed by the soviets as they invaded Germany in WWII are beyond horrific. Stalin literally sent condemned murderers and madmen to the front lines, so the barbaric nature of their actions were expected. Patton was made more and more aware over time of how terrifying Bolshevism really was, and how it needed to be stopped before it could spread.