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undertoad
Lest we forget, the US/USSR "balance of power" was wrought partly on the backs of the estimated 20 million people murdered by Stalin so that he could maintain control.
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It is useful to remember that the USSR esp Moscow began the process of deStalinization at his death. His burial place is testimony to that fact. The Russians are not proud of the Stalin era, but ironically and quite possibly, 'barbarossa' may have just succeeded if it was not for his ruthless demands on his troops and population. If 'barbarossa' had succeeded we would be in a very different world today.
I think the US should look at their own history and remember that the 'majority' are relative newcomers who brutally wiped out the indigenous population, very much like the highland clearances in Scotland on a much smaller scale.
socrates