02-19-2003, 04:48 PM
Hi,
OK, I'll grant that for a while the Soviet Union did "win" in the traditional sense of holding the most land.
But history isn't just the occasional fact. It is a process.
The Soviets were just as bad as, if not worse than, the Nazis and the rest of the damn Axis. The fact that their allegiances and their actions left them, instead of being reduced to rubble, but in a position of super power status, what does it lead us to conclude?
That there ain't no justice? But we all know that. However, look at the situation just a little later. No Soviet Union. The "Russian Republics" have broken into separate nations, most of them in terrible economic straits because of 80 years of communist mismanagement. Meanwhile, the USA is left as the only superpower. Most of the countries that have been on good terms with it are advanced economically. Even Germany was able to overcome the difficulties of reunification.
So, this time, it was a victory for democracies in the long run.
--Pete
OK, I'll grant that for a while the Soviet Union did "win" in the traditional sense of holding the most land.
But history isn't just the occasional fact. It is a process.
The Soviets were just as bad as, if not worse than, the Nazis and the rest of the damn Axis. The fact that their allegiances and their actions left them, instead of being reduced to rubble, but in a position of super power status, what does it lead us to conclude?
That there ain't no justice? But we all know that. However, look at the situation just a little later. No Soviet Union. The "Russian Republics" have broken into separate nations, most of them in terrible economic straits because of 80 years of communist mismanagement. Meanwhile, the USA is left as the only superpower. Most of the countries that have been on good terms with it are advanced economically. Even Germany was able to overcome the difficulties of reunification.
So, this time, it was a victory for democracies in the long run.
--Pete
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