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Originally Posted by hound
russia has twice paid the price for trusting the nazis:
1939 stalin's pact with hitler ended in operation barbarosa which killed off 30m russians had 75% of the country disappeared.
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The Russians had 75% of the country disappeared?
Russia's losses in WWII were easily the most horrific of any side, but not to the extent of 75% population or territory lost.
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1991 yeltsin trusted the us and induced shock thearpy on russia's 70 year old communist economy, us would not give a dime to support the crumbling industries, the result depression where 80% of the economy sunk.
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The US did give money to maintain Russia's nuclear arsenal. Billions, in fact.
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the us put further pressure by expanding the nato right upto the chin of russia.
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More like, Eastern Europe wanted to join NATO.
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wonder what the result would have been if su under gorby had opted for china/india style reforms, these economies are growing at 6 to 10% a year rate for the last decade and a half.
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Russia had and has other problems apart just being communist and now being a transition economy, like atrocious national health.
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the question is why do not people learn from the history and get sucked up in the fake glitter.
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You don't learn from history because you seemingly don't know any history. Sorry.