XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc.culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
   XPost: soc.culture.nordic   
   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
   In article ,   
    valtsu  wrote:   
      
   > > I'm curious, by the way, as to whether you would make a similar   
   > > judgement about the Nazis, or the Italian fascists, or other ugly   
   > > regimes that claimed noble objectives of one sort or another.   
   > >   
   > The world unfortunately is not just black and white, it has all kinds of   
   > shades. I dare to say that without Nazi Germany Finland would not be in   
   > the state as it is now. Even though Finland and the Third Reich were not   
   > formally allies, they worked well together against their common enemy,   
   > the USSR, even though the countries were ideologically far apart.   
   > Finland was a democracy all through the war with social democrats among   
   > others in the Cabinet.   
      
   The question I was raising wasn't whether he thought there were good   
   people on the Nazi side, but whether he would view the Nazi, as he did   
   the communists, as people trying to make a noble ideal work--and failing.   
      
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