One wondered what had happened to him.
These paragraphs about the Allies who 'lost their birthrite' and Theoderic ending with this sentence sums up the tragedy of post-war Eastern Europe, whose fate was to be abandoned by the West for reasons of cold political realism. After all the only way to stop it would have been to take up arms against Russia and carry on the war. Something that would have been unlikely to have support amongst the populations of Western Europe or the USA. Patton wanted this, which was one of the reasons he was sidelined. But really what was the choice? To quote a great philosopher: ""Sometimes, the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose"
