Hail the Hitler-Stalin pact!

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Tue Nov 14 13:17:33 PST 2000


The person who occupied the office next to me with a militarily trained Soviet specialist. He would not talk to me for a year after the Soviets occupied Afghanistan -- somehow I was responsible for all the Soviet atrocities around the world. Despite his anti-Soviet perspective, he was fully convinced that the Nazi-Soviet pact with a brilliant and necessary maneuver since it gave the Soviets the opportunity to move much of its industrial capacity to the east.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 04:07:49PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Charles Brown wrote:
>
> > Soviet-German non-Agression Pact is and was eminently supportable.
> >It helped saved the world from Nazism.
>
> Wow. You don't see this argument made every day. Reading it is a bit
> like walking out the door and seeing a mastodon dining on a dodo.
>
> Doug

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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