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.

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. the us put further pressure by expanding the nato right upto the chin of russia.

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.

the question is why do not people learn from the history and get sucked up in the fake glitter.