I know all about Russia and what they went through in WWII, but that was not
relevant to what I was saying, I would have needed to write a thesis if I
hoped to include every event. Gerald some how believes this would have had
an effect on the 'younger' Russian conscripts I referred to who have had to
go fight in Afghanistan over the past decade. There has been fighting there
since the days of the campaigns of the 1800's on the NW Frontier.
BTW it was the Russians freed my father from the German POW Camp in Poland,
after 5 years of captivity.
James
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From: "Robert Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: Editorial
> jmadams wrote:
>
> [big snip]
>
> > 2. Russia never had attacks on her cities or soil, or at least none that
I
> > know of, or the west was allowed to here about.
>
> OK, lets forget about the ancient history, like Napolean's invasion of
> Russia. But surely you have heard of World War II. Some major things
> happened in Russia (and the rest of the USSR) in that war.
>
> - A siege and blockade of St. Petersburg that lasted about 900 days,
> with deaths estimated at 6-800,000 or more, most of starvation and cold,
> others from the constant shelling and bombing. About 500,000 are buried
> in one cemetery.
>
> -The Battle of Stalingrad, where the Red Army lost about a half-million
> men, many in hand-to-hand combat in the streets.
>
> - Other battles across Russia that led to Hitler's army being stopped
> only in the suburbs of Moscow? (A monument showing where it was stopped
> is visible from the road when traveling from the international airport
> to downtown.)
>
> - Major attacks and battles throughout Ukraine as well. I forget the
> City, but my mother-in-law was evacuated from her childhood home in
> Ukraine as the Germans approached.
>
> - And on and on...
>
> Total deaths for USSR during the war, military and civilian, about 20
> million.
>
> Bob Harris
> New York
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