I don't know about this: it was Nazi Germany that attacked the USSR, not Eastern Europe. It is true that Romania, Bulgaria and Finland joined the Germans - but that was puppet regimes in Romania and Bulgaria, and Finland was fighting in self-defense against the USSR to get their own territory back.
Also this kind of reasoning sounds too much like the "pre-emptive strike" logic for aggression from Dick Cheney and his kind. -raghu. ^^^^ CB: Your hearing of this as comparable to Bush-Cheney isn't very logical... more like _post_-emptive, since it came _after_ they had been attacked....the complete opposite of the Bush-Cheney doctrine. So, you are saying the Soviets should have put Germany on ice but just left the "puppet" regimes in between in place ? You call them "puppets" regimes, but there were plenty of indigenous right-wingers in those countries. Notice, right now, NATO is creeping into Eastern Europe, and Russia isn't even socialist. Finland wasn't occupied by the Soviets after WWII. -- This message has been scanned for malware by SurfControl plc. www.surfcontrol.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
