Few years ago, a previously suspended member once wrote in some thread that it was Britain's strategy during WW2 that made Central Europe go red. I'm not sure what he may have been thinking about, but it's too late for me to ask now. Do you guys what he may have been talking about? What paths Britain may have pursued to keep the Soviets out of Central Europe? What states are we talking about exactly? Only the Balkans or even perhaps Poland and Czechoslovakia? What about East Germany?
Wow, to answer this question one could go on & on! To sum up, the answer is no. CE
went red because Russian troops pursuing retreating Nazis took care, as they crossed
CE, to plant the seeds for future Red regimes. Churchill wanted the Allies to attack
Hitler from the Mediterranean(what he famously called "the soft underbelly of Europe")but did NOT get his way & in 1944
IOTL the main Allied effort went into France.
No British troops went into CE- just Russian
ones. Problem was, attacking the so-called
soft underbelly was quite difficult, as the
I'll-fated Italian campaign showed. Militarily
speaking, going into France made much more sense.