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Sigh... and without the US involvement, we in West Europe would at best have learned Russian in school just like they had to in the enslaved East Europe. Not e
by berntb 13y ago
Sigh... and without the US involvement, we in West Europe would at best have learned Russian in school just like they had to in the enslaved East Europe.
Not even the Nazis were uniquely evil.
(For instance, I have been in Romania a bit and have heard/read the stories about how they were broken, after the WW. They had it easier even under the Nazis a few years earlier.)
But you knew all that.
Edit: My point was that if the Soviets really had won the war themselves, as mikeash wrote, we in West Europe would have lost -- more or less as badly as if the Nazis had won.
- mikeash 13y agoI wonder if that would have happened in a hypothetical world where the US didn't enter the war. It's impossible to say for sure, but the Russians may not have had enough left in them to take over the continent. In any case, the point would be better made to say that the US prevented a Soviet takeover of Western Europe, not that the US defeated the Nazis.