Though Russia did need to gain their own victory against their aggressors at that time, they took the opportunity to then oppress and take over other lands as was attempted by them.
WW2 marked for them the beginning of when they became a version of Hitler with their own behavior on many other countries IMO.
What is it about people who say, "I have already apologized and refuse to do so again" when they have never really apologized at all?
I kinda wish Bush wasn't going to Russia to celebrate V-E Day with Putin. Let's hope there are no more embarassing comments about "looking into his soul." Or was it his eyes? Whatever.
The guy has always looked like a creep to me. Once KGB always KGB. He wants to be dictator & is well on his way to being one. He's made the situation in Chechnya worse than it ever had to be, on the excuse of the war on terror, and because he invoked the war on terror we've let him get away with it. I still think he is behind the poisoning of the Ukrainian president. And a day before the US president is due to arrive, the creep insults the US by telling us to "look to our own democracy."
Once again, WHY is Bush going there?????
The article mentions an open letter by Vaclav Havel and others. Is there any link to the text of it?
Bet they(the Soviets) wouldn't have had such a hard time if Stalin hadn't killed almost 20 million of his own people.
Evidence to contradict this will arise when they form their own institutions of freedom such as a cyrillic version of 'FreeRepublic'.
Many hammers and sickles in all the celebrations the past few days. The hammer and sickle has only one, unmistakeable meaning. There is nothing "nationalist" about it. Apologists cannot tap dance around all those hammers and sickles.
The Russkies can cry all they want about the Nazis and state that they battled them etc etc but the sad fact is that for two years they were ALLIES
carved up Poland and raped it nicely during and AFTER the second world war.