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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (38226)	8/10/2008 12:29:22 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218074

The red army was not much of a problem to anyone for many years, except perhaps the Finns after Russia became communist. I doubt they would have attacked Poland in 1939 unless the Nazis attacked at the same time. The red army only became a problem after the Nazis tried to extinguish it during operation Barbarossa started in 1941. Stalin economic policies had been a disaster, and would have continued to be except for the fact he had built up heavy industry at an advanced rate. There would have been no real use for it until the Nazis attacked full tilt. The Red army took care of a full 80% of the Nazi problem and made a huge sacrifice in doing so. Very few western people seem to appreciate this. WW2 could have been much, much worse for us. The Nazis would not have existed if the German people hadn't been treated as they were post WW1, and some backbone had been shown by western powers after Hitler came to power. Now the Berlin Wall has fallen and communism has failed. The Russian population are in a similar situation as Germany post WW1, and the conditions don't look much different either. There are no massive forts to be surrendered (aka surrender of the Sudeten Lands March 1939) to a virulent expansionist Russia. If they took over the rest of Georgia, that would be the time to maybe sound the alarm bells. Finally, we don't want to make that infamous Georgian, Stalin, look like a saint. We would do if we get over emotional about the price of filling the gasoline tank and touched off WW111. Stalin only killed 20 million? or was it 60 million?? Unfortunately it is in Russian/Western powers ability to make that number look very small indeed. Georgia 'calls Ossetia ceasefire' news.bbc.co.uk