Re: OT - Brit and proud

[Boris Liberman]

Hi!

You really don't want me to join the most recent political debate. I 
happen to have pretty good knowledge of WWII war as it was taught in 
late 1980's in school in Moscow which also happened to be a capital of 
Soviet Union at that time <grin>.

Bill, you're quite right about the history though. I won't be citing 
what I was taught about participance of US and other allies in the 
war. I only would cite that according to Soviet Historians the country 
lost 20 million of its citizens one way or another.

Again, history books are written essentially with and by permission of 
politicians of a given country. Which means obvious biases and so on.

It has to be understood that whenever the political controversy arises 
(I am not talking about this friendly bunch), the real truth is so 
deeply hidden that one has to admit to oneself that one would never 
know what actually happened and what were intentions behind the 
actions that lead to the events that one was told in the news about.

Come, let us talk about Pentax or at worst Canon... Let us also keep 
the friendliness and mutual politeness and hopefully some tolerance 
too.

Boris