Light'em Up

The man leaves to work out of the country, gets hardly a day's rest, and then proceeds on the attack.

First target:

I will, however, point out that anyone who took Stalin at his word was a functional retard who deserved whatever he got. The tragedy of history, of course, is that the people who lived and died under the Soviet yoke didn't deserve what they got.

Yalta was an abominable disgrace to a nation that went to war under the auspices that America did in World War II. In a rational culture, it might be enough to say that this fact should never be forgotten. What's worse is the truth, which is: it is a fact that would have to be learned before it could ever be forgotten.

A follow-up:

To begin with, I say that it is an outrage -- prima facie -- to talk about the "freedom" (let's keep the importance of concepts, ladies & gentlemen) of tens of millions of people in terms of a "bargain". Try it like this: who would have "bargain[ed]" with Adolph Hitler? Even after that animal was dead, it had to be pointed out to Karl Doenitz that there would be no negotiated terms of surrender. Once more, with feeling: a "bargain" implies an exchange of values. What could Stalin have offered us? Peace, or something like that, for not pressing the rights of the people of eastern Europe? Was that the value at issue? Zoom this look back out to the big picture of general principles: was "peace" less valuable in 1941, and if so, then why? What was the difference between, say, France and Poland versus the Baltic states and Hungary? The "facts" were "on the ground" of western Europe right up until the audacity of Normandy, no less than they were in the east after V-E Day, and if the difference is that it was Hitler on the ground in France instead of Stalin on the ground in Poland, then there was no difference at all, all while The Grand Alliance was making all its vaunted noise about "freedom".

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Make no mistake about it: there was a "bargain", and it was struck at Yalta. And let me tell you what got traded away.

He isn't talking about dollar bills or shiny new Volgas, either.

Posted by Drizzten at May 10, 2005 02:47 PM