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   XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc.culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
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   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    Anton  wrote:   
      
   > James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   >   
   > > Eugene expresses the socialist worldview.  Even if you   
   > > do not believe that worldview, most socialists surely do   
   > > believe it, thus Russians believed, and many Russians   
   > > probably still do believe, that they had just cause to   
   > > attack Finland and a pressing need to do so.   
   >   
   > With hindsight it is evident you are wrong. At one time they were very   
   > agressive and expansionist, but later they almost entirely limited their   
   > use of force of keeping their already conquered countries.   
      
   They limited their use of the Soviet military in that way, either out of   
   general prudence or because they had a more accurate idea than U.S.   
   decision makers did of the relative conventional strength of the two   
   sides.   
      
   But they supported, with arms and money, groups outside their area that   
   were trying to overthrow governments friendly to the U.S. and establish   
   ones friendly to the USSR.   
      
   As, of course, the U.S. did, mutatis mutandis.   
      
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