To: TobagoJack who wrote (106097 ) 5/17/2014 5:33:44 AM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 219956 To better understand today conflicts and point of friction it is important to read history as heritage of a nation is very strongly hereditary and carries its weight in social economic behavior of communities. Long ago the Romans learned this fact and all they cared about was the payment of tribute. Therefore their Imperial aspiration lasted for so long. Russians did not learn from history and oppressed the many nations it conquered and as such their empire fell within few generations. Point to be mentioned the fear of Chinese or Japanese occupation drove many Asian nations to embrace Russia with Kazakhstan being the biggest territorial country .The biggest political and social economic crimes of the modern times where committed by the WWI Allied forces British French Russian etc., and to some extend after WWII which included the US. Some short examples; they allocated Turkey close of 1/2 of Kurdistan they allocated Turkey 1/3 of Armenia they eliminated Assryans a Christian nation between today Turkey Syria and Iraq en.wikipedia.org and also see en.wikipedia.org or en.wikipedia.org they allocated Iran close of 1/2 of Azerbaijan and part of Kurdistan they allocated Iran close of ALL of Baluchistan to Iran they messed around with the borders of Georgia and Armenia in ways to long to explain they messed around with most of the Northern Caucasus between the Don and Volga, where several small nationalities are and did not shay away from Dagestan, en.wikipedia.org Kalmykia, en.wikipedia.org a quite big country Chechnya, en.wikipedia.org Cherkassia, en.wikipedia.org Ossntia , en.wikipedia.org they allocated Iran close of ALL of Baluchistan to Iran they invented Afghanistan which should have been 2 nations they invented Iraq, which should have been Kurdistan and 2 more nations they invented Saudi Arabia which should have been 3 to 4 nations they invented all the Gulf Emirates and States they invented Yugoslavia which disintegrated during a bloody war they transferred 1/3 of Romania to Russia which is not part of Ukraine, Moldova and Transnistria they transferred huge swats of land from Poland to Russia which is now part of Ukraine and White Russia they eliminated the Prussians (not really Germans as we know it, but a Germanic Teutonic tribe) which are is divided between Germany, Poland and Russia (Kaliningrad) ...... and the list is way to long.to post all maps on SI