On 25 August 2010 22:40, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: > Certainly, the Russians have always been paranoid. The Brits, > however, gave the Communists the excuse they needed to convince the > Russian people that they had to sacrifice their liberty and economic > welfare to avoid being taken over by colonialist powers of the West. > > "If the British and their allies had been successful in aiding the > Whites it likely would have saved millions of lives over the last 90 > years." > > That is exactly the type of excuse Britain has given for their > colonial excesses all over the globe for many centuries, causing much > more suffering than they purport to prevent.
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