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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (214977)	1/26/2007 12:52:15 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I know that Yalta and Potsdam conferences resulted in the western powers acquescing in Soviet domination of eastern Europe. But if the USSR was a paper tiger, why did they acquesce in the first place? And why didn't the eastern European countries push the Soviets out? After all their military equipment wouldn't operate. How did the paper tiger ever push the Nazis out of the USSR and eastern Europe in the first place? Re. the European role in democracy - I'll agree the roots of democracy developed there going back to the ancient Greeks. Though except for England and a few corners like Iceland and the Corsican Republic, it still wasn't very widespread in 1776. Since the development of democracy, I remain unimpressed (positively anyway) with Europe's more recent contributions to political/social policy.

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