At 05:32 PM 5/26/01 -0000 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>>How is it "protecting yourself" to
>>conquer 6 countries and keep your soldiers there - against the wishes
>>of the people in those countries? How is that _any_ different from
>>Nazi Germany in Poland in 1939, or France in 1940? By your standard,
>>Nazi Germany was only protecting itself.
>>
>It's different because Nazi Germany would kill everybody to get
>lebensraum for the "Aryans", and Stalinist CCCP would only kill
>those that opposed their occupation.
>
>Both are Evil, but there's a huge difference.
Not really true. I think the evidence is sufficient that the "Stalinist
CCCP" would have sought "Lebensraum" anywhere they could find it. Only
the presence of NATO (and nuclear weapons) prevented a battle for
Lebensraum from breaking out in Europe. As it is, the "Stalinist CCCP"
killed a great many Afghanis, Africans, and Latin Americans in their quest
for world domination.
JDG
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