>>> furuhashi.1 at osu.edu 11/11/00 01:21PM >>
At the same time, the same beliefs A, B, C, & D debilitated the
Communists in many ways, by making them defend the indefensible _and_
defend _even_ the defensible (e.g., the Nazi-Soviet Pact) _in an
indefensible fashion_, as Justin might say.
I suppose this may be called dialectical irony; the cunning of political reason works mysteriously.
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CB: Soviet-German non-Agression Pact is and was eminently supportable. It helped saved the world from Nazism. Only lack of understanding of the depth of cunning in war misses this.