From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "Anton"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:g8qutm$jiu$1@registered.motzarella.org...   
   > James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   >> James A. Donald:   
   >   
   >>>> The Hungarians tried on stuff that had previously led to war. They took   
   >>>> risk of war.  When war did not eventuate, everyone joined in.   
   >   
   >> Anton   
   >>> Tell us something we don't know.   
   >   
   >> To spell it out for you.  The risk of war was less because the Soviets   
   >> had already suffered some military defeats, and the possibility of   
   >> winning the war, should war ensue, was greater.   
   >>   
   >> Thus the military defeats the Soviets suffered   
   >> encouraged the Hungarians to defy the Soviets.   
   >   
   > Again you are talking without knowing the facts: Hungary happened in   
   > *1956*, and that particular rebellion was crushed. That was long before   
   > Afghanistan, long before the Berlin Wall and the socialist governments   
   > fell in Eastern Europe late 80s - in those bloodless "velvet" revolutions.   
   > So the Hungarians in 1956 certainly could not possibly have been   
   > encouraged by a Soviet defeat. On the contrary: Soviets had been very   
   > victorious in its previous war: the WWII.   
   >   
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   > Anton   
      
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