Liberation? Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin divided up Europe at the end of WW2 (feb 1945) and soon after distrusted each other so much they ended the US-Russia alliance and started the cold war. Stalin erected the iron curtain and Truman started the whole demonization of everything communist, which is still ongoing today.
I don't really call it liberation with US nukes being stationed in my birth country as a buffer against the now evil Russians.