No point in me arguing with you, Bobbywan and Keplers my position as well as yours are never going to change this is like trying to break through a brick wall using your head . I say we call this argument a draw and leave each other to our openions.
The reason they fought with the Nazis was because Hitler broke the nonagression pact. The reason they allied themselves with us is because they wanted to come out of the war with more power.
We didn't want to increase power of the ussr. Stalins main goal (like all Russian foreign policy) was to get as much land inbetween the west and Moscow, to prevent anyone from rapidly invading and taking over the country.
So you're justifying conquering lands by saying "it's to protect Moscow"?
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I agree with your idea about the Eastern mindset, but please don't handwave seventy years of atrocities and terror with "but they also built roads!"
Did we kill a lot of ppl? Yes. A lot of ppl died from bad policy. I don't know but when ever I speak to my friends (all my friends are from eastern countries) none of them think that the mass deaths were all that impactful. Yeah I know we are very cold people . I understand we messed up really badly, but we understood our mistakes and fixed them post stalin's reign. You cant blame one individual for the countrys entire history.
One hundred million people were murdered by communist regimes across the world. Forty-nine million people can be attributed to a single man in the Soviet Union. You believe that one hundred million lives are not that impactful because the Soviet Union lifted a couple million out of poverty and built factories? That's beyond cold.
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Please can you be civilised and talk to each other and not at each other.
Disobeying this order will result in further action.
Thanks, ~BR!MSTONE
You are not a moderator.
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I don't believe the holiday of Christmas is a nationally-sanctioned day of worship.
I'm pretty sure it is, actually, but no one is required to celebrate it, because, y'know, freedom.
It's not a day of worship, is my point.
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Regardless, they are relevant words that should be heeded.
Not being a moderator does not make everything Brimstone said automatically extraneous.
I am merely pointing out that he has none of the authority he self-ascribes. That authority lies with me.
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There, I took out a few greats, is that more accurate?
He didn't live in the 1200s either. :tounge:
Yep, and maybe William Shakespeare was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's 6th cousin. How 'bout that?
