Russia hacked US shit-storm dying fast death, real SS on the way.

[rich]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

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>    '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).'
>

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)
Every country is still grappling, forgetting, enhancing its own myths about
the 2nd world war. Russia isnt any different.

rich


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