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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (133234)2/21/2001 11:17:07 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1570499
 
Scumbria, <The behavior of the post WWII Soviet Union was very easily explained in non-paranoid terms. They took the Baltics, Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia because they wanted a buffer to keep the Germans out of Russia. Quite understandable after losing 60,000,000 people in WWI and WWII.>

Yes, quite understandable, but also quite scary if you are the leader of a nation next to such a "buffer" or an ally of those nations. I'd say that makes America's fear of communism very explainable in "non-paranoid terms."

That doesn't mean the Soviet Union collapsed as a direct result of Reagan's military spending. But it does make me wonder how you can call the Soviet Union's actions "non-paranoid" while at the same time calling America's reaction "self-serving paranoia."

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