On 9 March 2010 02:41, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: >> If you have any doubt that our cold war foes were interested in running an >> empire or not, ask the Poles. >> > The satellite countries hardly constituted a global empire, though this fact > seems lost on you.
We were occupied. It was of little importance to us if the occupation seemed not global enough from outside. Since 1700's the rulers of 'your cold war foe', whether tsars or soviets, would rather share their western border with Germany (any form of it). That puts us here in quite an uncomfortable situation. In 1980's there was at least 60.000 soviet soldiers (and 250 of their nuke enablements) permanently stationed in Poland. None of them was invited, yet we were made keep funding this honour for nearly 50 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Group_of_Forces#Aftermath >From here it looked like they were indeed running an empire. The fact that they did the same (mostly much worse) to many other nations makes it somewhat global. tm, 22 (and glad) when they left. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
