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2008-05-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia holds military parade to mark victory day

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Posted by Fred 2008-05-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Let's face it. Russia bore the brunt of the war against the Nazis. I fear that if the Germans had been able to effect a negotiated settlement much less out-right victory in the East the Western Allies would of never been able to defeat Germany having to invade across the Channel short of employing nuclear weapons

Posted by Cheaderhead 2008-05-10 10:52|| 2008-05-10 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, but without having been propped-up materially by the allied (read the USA), russia never would have been able to withstand the german onslaught. And don't forget, this aid was (pragmatically) going to a former ALLY of the nazis that would have stayed so for some more time, hadn't they been foolishly attacked by hitler. Russians certainly weren't the "good guys" in WWII... yet ultimately they were its greatest victors, that's very unfair, in some way (though that could be discussed, if one takes the bleeding out of the population into account, from which, added to the devastation of the revolution, civil war and terror, it never recovered).

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-10 12:03|| 2008-05-10 12:03|| Front Page Top

#3 The US and the British Empire, surely. My father spent some time camped on the Persian side of the Russian border as a translator for the British Army.

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