downsizing US military

[Sava]

And what has Russian air power ever done? Get killed by Americans 10:1?

Oh yeah, the Hind mowed down Afghan civilians. Wow. Big deal.

And Russian naval air power? Hah! Russia doesn't even have any real carriers. You have those little stupid carriers with ramps... just like the Euros.

[molly bloom]

Soviets waited a couple of weeks and after their surprise and shock that Polish forces were utterly crushed within just two weeks

These would be the same Soviets responsible for the Katyn Masscre ? I can't remember your last excuse for that atrocity, but really there isn't one.

[Sava]

Katyn Masscre ?

Western lies. Western propaganda.

[Serb]

If by western propaganda you mean Hitler's propaganda, then - yes.

[Sava]

If by western propaganda you mean Hitler's propaganda, then - yes.

Was Hitler a Western conspiracy?

[molly bloom]

If by western propaganda you mean Hitler's propaganda, then - yes.

Not Hitler's propaganda. Lavrenti Beria to Comrade Stalin :

Based on the fact that all of them are steadfast incorrigible enemies of Soviet power, the USSR NKVD deems it essential:

I. To propose that the USSR NKVD: [underlined - ed]

Give special consideration to

1) the cases of 14,700 people remaining in the prisoner-of-war camps - former Polish army officers, government officials, landowners, policemen, intelligence agents, military policemen, settlers and jailers,

2) and also the cases of those arrested and remaining in prisons in the western districts of Ukraine and Belorussia, totalling 11,000 - members of various counter-revolutionary spy and sabotage organisations, former landowners, factory owners, former Polish army officers, government officials and defectors -

Imposing on them the sentence of capital punishment - execution by shooting.

II. The cases are to be handled without the convicts being summoned and without revealing the charges; with no statements concerning the conclusion of the investigation and the bills of indictment given to them…."

[The letter is signed "L. Beria" in blue pencil, under the title USSR People's Commissar for Internal Affairs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8649435.stm

[Sava]

Is 20th century Russia the most murderous nation ever?

[100% Wolf]

20th century China was pretty bad. All thanks to Russia of course

[Felch]

FACT: they declared war and did nothing to help their ally Poland.

Better to do nothing than to stab them in the back.

Soviets waited a couple of weeks and after their surprise and shock that Polish forces were utterly crushed within just two weeks and Polish western allies do nothing instead of fighting the nazis on the western front, Soviets decided to took lands their enemy Poland have stolen from USSR two decades ago to prevent those lands falling to the nazi's hands.

Soviets had worked out the boundaries with the Nazis in the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.

Here's a little video showing the Soviets and their Nazi friends dividing up the spoils of war.

Soviets and Nazis are one and the same.

[Sava]

Soviets and Nazis are one and the same.

YEAH

They want to take ur guns.

And ur job!

THANKS OBAMA

[Serb]

Happy Hitler.

[Sava]

your hero

[Al B. Sure!]

That term slav which forms the root word for slave is actually Norse in origin. Which really does tell us a lot about how Vikings treated people in eastern Europe (well, and western Europe too but as bad as it was in western Europe eastern Europe got it worse from the Vikings).

Oerdin is always wrong

Slav:

late 14c., Sclave, from Medieval Latin Sclavus (c.800), from Byzantine Greek Sklabos (c.580), from Old Church Slavonic Sloveninu "a Slav," probably related to slovo "word, speech," which suggests the name originally identified a member of a speech community (cf. Old Church Slavonic Nemici "Germans," related to nemu "dumb;" and cf. Old English þeode, which meant both "race" and "language").

Identical with the -slav in personal names (e.g. Russian Miroslav, literally "peaceful fame;" Mstislav "vengeful fame;" Jaroslav "famed for fury;" Czech Bohuslav "God's glory;" and cf. Wenceslas). Spelled Slave c.1788-1866, influenced by French and German Slave. As an adjective from 1876.

Slave:

late 13c., "person who is the chattel or property of another," from Old French esclave (13c.), from Medieval Latin Sclavus "slave" (source also of Italian schiavo, French esclave, Spanish esclavo), originally "Slav" (see Slav); so used in this secondary sense because of the many Slavs sold into slavery by conquering peoples.

This sense development arose in the consequence of the wars waged by Otto the Great and his successors against the Slavs, a great number of whom they took captive and sold into slavery. [Klein]

Nothing about Norse. It comes from medieval Latin and Greek and the enslavement of Slavs during the reign of the Emperor Otto the Great (912-973).


The Norse word for slave was thrall which should be common knowledge to anyone who has played Skyrim.

[Al B. Sure!]

The only line that matters:

Military trucks
Soviet Union 197,100
United States 2,382,311

12x the trucks

US would have destroyed the USSR's conventional military several times over.

[Sava]

T34 was basically a truck with sloped armor.