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To: TimF who wrote (67069)	5/20/2008 2:19:05 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543684

The area behind the iron curtain could have legitimately been considered part of a Soviet Empire. Still your right that even then the notion was in decline The big difference between post-WWII and, say, the late 19th century when the notion of empire and "great states" was still in vogue was that in the earlier time, people still pursued empire and were proud of them. After WWII, it was an epithet that people said that their opposition pursued, not them. "They" was leaders of a coalition of the willing (to coin a phrase, lol), not an empire.