>Now that you bring it up, Partition really puts Putin's comment
>about the Soviet Union's break-up being "the greatest geo-political
>disaster of the last century" in proper perspective. Partition
>caused a million deaths, many of them in truly horrible ways, plus
>countless rapes and beatings and 20 million refugees. The Soviet
>Union's break-up was a bad thing, but not in the same class.
The breakup of the USSR threw scores of millions into poverty, resulted in a sharp increase in mortality rates, and gave the US free reign to do whatever the hell it wants. I'm with Putin.
Doug