From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "David Friedman"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:ddfr-C6B60E.08371322082008@CA.NEWS.VERIO.NET...   
   > 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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