[Pen-l] Labor aristocracy

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know about this: it was Nazi Germany that attacked the USSR,
not Eastern Europe. It is true that Romania, Bulgaria and Finland
joined the Germans - but that was puppet regimes in Romania and
Bulgaria, and Finland was fighting in self-defense against the USSR to
get their own territory back.

Also this kind of reasoning sounds too much like the "pre-emptive
strike" logic for aggression from Dick Cheney and his kind.
-raghu.

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CB: Your hearing of this as comparable to Bush-Cheney isn't very
logical...  more like _post_-emptive, since it came _after_ they had
been attacked....the complete opposite of the Bush-Cheney doctrine.

So,  you are saying the Soviets should have put Germany on ice but just
left the "puppet" regimes in between in place ?

You call them "puppets" regimes, but there were plenty of indigenous
right-wingers in those countries.

Notice, right now, NATO is creeping into Eastern Europe, and Russia
isn't even socialist.

Finland wasn't occupied by the Soviets after WWII.

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