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
Belarus lost A QUARTER of its population in WWII. And now they have to deal with the aftereffects of Chernobyl and friggin' Lukashenko. Poor blighted country.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal