[spanalot]

“I suppose if you’d have been invaded a few times, and you took heavy hits,”

Another Kremlin Myth - it was Ukrainians and Poles that shed the most blood during WWII.

http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-29.html

[JohnA]

You'd best check in with the Scots Regiments and historian, Norman Davies, on WWII.

What are your views on Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte?