Not that Wisner was so naive as to be shocked by any of this. After all, maintaining the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union had already required all manner of political and moral contortions by the Roosevelt administration. There was also the basic issue of facts on the ground. The Soviets had suffered dearly at the hands of Romania’s previous, Nazi-allied regime, in a theater of the war that the Americans missed altogether. Further, in November 1944, Wisner was one of perhaps fifty American servicemen in Romania in contrast to a resident Red Army contingent of at least a half-million.
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