US guilt

[ChrisD(RJ)]

A large chunk of the guilt still hasn't kicked in. At the meeting 
where I met  Andrei Ilarionov, I said that I feared U.S. steel 
tariffs would greatly harm the interests of the workers of 
Magnitogorsk--and that the U.S. has never acknowledged the debt that 
it owes their grandparents for building the tanks that broke the back 
of the Nazi army.

Something totally obvious, historically completely true--yet never 
said inside the U.S. Hell, DeeDee Myers thought I was an idiot for 
saying that Yeltsin should be invited to the 1994 DDay commemoration.

At least Ilarionov seemed to like it...

Brad DeLong
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Well, acknowledging that would mean acknowledging that it was mainly the
USSR that beat Hitler, not the US, which ain't never gonna happen. Not to
mention that teh USSR of course bore the great brunt of the fighting.
Belarus lost A QUARTER of its population -- the Nazis would just run whole
villages into forests and then set them on fire.

Magnitogorsk's main square has a truly impressive and ENORMOUS statue of
Lenin on it, by the way. He looks like Superman.

Chris Doss
The Russia Journal