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To: Dayuhan who wrote (84336)	7/28/2000 1:24:13 PM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 108807

Steven, It is true about the difficulty of defeating Russia. You mentioned Hitler but, you forgot that short little guy, Napoleon, in 1812. If the American people had known then, what we know now, about what Russia would do, and factor in the cost in money, and lives, of the various wars, caused by the cold war, they may have been willing to go to the mat. Another thing, as horrible as it is, we had "the bomb" then, and they didn't. It could have been done. It would have been brutal, bloody, and costly, but may have relieved the world of a lot of the chaos that was suffered. Had FDR had not been weak, and sick, at Yalta, Germany would not have been divided, and Easter Europe could have been kept out of the Russian umbrella. Russia really had no bargaining chips but unsubstantiated innuendo, and BS. ~H~

To: Dayuhan who wrote (84336)	7/28/2000 2:02:38 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

"tens of thousands?" I think it would have been very hard to get the US Army to fight the Red Army and vice versa. The American army wanted to go home right now. The Soviet Army wanted to keep going. A colleague of mine involved in repatriating Soviet POW's from Germany said that most of them refused to leave the camps in the American zone. He said that that Soviet soldiers had to drag most of them out to the trucks to take them back to Russia, where many of them, it turns out, were shot or imprisoned.