American identity

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Jun 7 18:58:08 PDT 2001


On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> No doubt the USSR played the major role [in WWII] - far greater than
> the US (which was more of the profiteering from supplying war
> materiele to the combatants than actual fighting). But the concept of
> "National War" feeds to Russian nationalism while ignoring the
> contributions of smaller nations.

Not to mention fairly big nations like the Ukraine. Accoding to their reckoning, they supplied most of the victims and a disproportionate amount of the soldiers in the Great Russian war machine.

Michael

__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com



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