On Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:37:32 +0100 deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > On 26/03/16 01:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> Thanks Tom. Its hell for an old fart who can still remember his > >> grandfathers tears the night of Dec 7, 1941. Tears because he knew we > >> would declare war. > >> > >> And I believe thats the last war we fully intended to win. Its all been > >> downhill since. > >> > >> Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> > > > > Hmm, despite what you guys seem to think, WW2 started on 1 Sept 1939. > stop USSR invading whole of Western Europe. It is highly unlikely they would have done this. Stalin's main concern was to defend capitalist Russia from Western encirclement by building "socialism" (read state capitalism) in one country and establish a network of buffer states to ensure the survival of the above. Despite all your alternate history yearnings, I doubt we would have ever seen Russia invading western Europe. Bolshevism quickly dropped its millenarian, world-conquering enthusiasm after the 20s and stagnated into what was essentially a fascist nationalism using left-wing rhetoric.
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