02-18-2003, 10:01 PM
Hi,
"I did this for you 80 years ago, so you do this for me". It's just too big of a timeline...
Right. But "You did this to me 500 years ago" is still a good enough justification for supposedly civilized people to continue killing each other. I guess gratitude is stored in short term memory but perceived offenses are graven in stone.
As for the Russians, one way to look at it is that they were brave soldiers fighting their great patriotic war and willing to sacrifice their lives en masse. Another way of looking at it is that they were incompetent soldiers with poor leaders who didn't care for their lives and were willing to pay a high price for little return. And the truth is somewhere in between and covered with the manure of 46 years of Soviet propaganda.
--Pete
"I did this for you 80 years ago, so you do this for me". It's just too big of a timeline...
Right. But "You did this to me 500 years ago" is still a good enough justification for supposedly civilized people to continue killing each other. I guess gratitude is stored in short term memory but perceived offenses are graven in stone.
As for the Russians, one way to look at it is that they were brave soldiers fighting their great patriotic war and willing to sacrifice their lives en masse. Another way of looking at it is that they were incompetent soldiers with poor leaders who didn't care for their lives and were willing to pay a high price for little return. And the truth is somewhere in between and covered with the manure of 46 years of Soviet propaganda.
--Pete
How big was the aquarium in Noah's ark?