<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Joseph Tracy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brook7@sover.net" target="_blank">brook7@sover.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
  'One thing that is given virtually no attention in this debate is Russia’s deep wariness of weapons on its borders from the legacy of WW2 where something like 3 out of a hundred Russian males who went to fight returned alive and unwounded.(I’m relying on someone else's numbers and it may be imprecise but the number is very large and left a large scar on the Russian psyche).'<br></blockquote><div><br>One quibble in your thoughtful post. I think there is a tendency to equate Soviet with Russia. Much of the eastern front during the war was not fought on Russian soil nor were a good number of its battlefield and civilian deaths Russian, per se (e.g. Ukraine, Byelorussia, those from the far eastern provinces and Siberia, etc.--the ratios of those killed in those areas was probably much higher than in Russia, at least the first two for sure)<br></div><div>Every country is still grappling, forgetting, enhancing its own myths about the 2nd world war. Russia isnt any different. <br><br></div><div>rich<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Â
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