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:   
   >   
   > > When communists stopped winning, in part because we   
   > > smartened up and set to avoiding wars of conscript   
   > > cannon fodder,   
   >   
   > If you by "we" mean the USA that is bullshit. "You" provided the USSR   
   > with supplies which helped them to send their conscript cannon fodder   
   > against a freedom loving, sovereign democracy. Yes, you are right on one   
   > thing: you smartened up, but you did not "avoid fighting them", but you   
   > stopped fighting WITH them - on their side!   
      
   Assuming you are referring to WWII, the U.S. stopped supporting the USSR   
   because we (the allies) won the war, not because the U.S. smartened up.   
      
   So far as I know, the U.S. didn't provide the USSR with supplies during   
   the initial stage of the Russo-Finnish war, before Finland became an   
   ally, and the USSR an enemy, of Germany. Am I mistaken? So far as I can   
   tell, the western democracies were in favor of Finland in that war,   
   although they didn't do much about it.   
      
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