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To: SunkenCiv

Those are some astounding numbers. One can easily seey why, with >70% casualties, Russia was ripe for revolution and France was sent into a seemingly irreversible decline. It's also easy to see wny the Western democracies had such an aversion to war during the twenties and thirties--an aversion that Hitler used to his advantage.


20 posted on 05/31/2005 12:43:32 AM PDT by kms61
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To: kms61
"Those are some astounding numbers. One can easily seey why, with >70% casualties, Russia was ripe for revolution and France was sent into a seemingly irreversible decline. It's also easy to see wny the Western democracies had such an aversion to war during the twenties and thirties--an aversion that Hitler used to his advantage."

Yes, they are astounding. It brings one to realize the number Russia (USSR) lost not only during the War but also in the purges, starvations, more purges, and in the WWII!

This explained much of the USSR's fear of war and their military build-ups!

23 posted on 05/31/2005 3:52:21 AM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound (Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead !)
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