Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Life in Bulgaria Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:54:54 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:18:00 -0500, Gary Popkin wrote: >=A0Churchill and Roosevelt "gave" eastern Europe to the Soviets in= exchange for > their participation in World War II, and doomed tens of= millions of people > to 45 years of brutal poverty. Having just begun the 6th and final volume of Churchill's= memoirs of WW2 , the Soviets "took" everything east of the middle of Germany .= The only sense in which the Brit-US axis gave them anything is in some= arms and supplies from the time Hitler attacked them on . The Soviets= didn't just participate in WW2 , they destroyed more Germans , and lost more= men , than the western allies did . It would have been an immediate continuation of the war to try= to wrest the eastern countries back from the Soviets . ( Of course we could have just nuked them . ) > Oh, well, they were only eastern Europeans anyway, with= pasty-white round > heads and not enough vowels in their names. Perhaps Churchill= and Roosevelt > should have given them some vowels. I like their extra consonants . -- =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02002/12/24 4:42:20 PM