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Old 11-09-2009, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy View Post
It was a big moment in history. Never should have happened in the first place, we messed up the end game in 1945. Churchill warned everyone about it, no one listened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyXXepUgrE
I disagree. Russia lost 20 million citizens, about, in both world wars. They did the bulk of stopping the Nazis. As ugly and awful as the Berlin Wall was, so were Russian losses. Germany was going to pay a price, one way or the other, and for Russia, that price was being controlled to the max.

Churchill didn't have the forces to stop the Russians from exercising their will on eastern Europe, and everyone else was too war-weary and depleted to do so.
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