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Re: [Pen-l] Labor aristocracy



On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Charles Brown
<charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Well Cheney might argue that they too were only responding
post-emptively after the WTC attacks..


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

I am not saying that at all. All those regimes - puppet and fascist -
had to go. But there was no need for the USSR to maintain an
indefinite military presence in E. Europe after the war.


> Finland wasn't occupied by the Soviets after WWII.
>

Stalin did the right thing with Finland. Why not also with Poland,
Hungary, Czechslovakia etc?
-raghu.

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