News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]


Guys, your image of Russia looks for me like you take it from comics for simplicity level.


I don't like to see ethnic cleansing results.

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Another example of comics reader. The only reason why we are where we are now - because communist ideas failed and Russians turned out of them. And you are still fight in the past war.

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I realize that Poles think Poland-centered. But to understand try to think just wider - there is now a lot of documents from those times. Without it all your conclusions will be wrong.

You should know that Germans invaded Poland and SU invaded Baltic states and part of Poland not because they agreed to live in piece forever. As you found by yourself there was nothing of special economic interest on all these territories for SU - except their strategic importance for next big war. It was just a part of the game for future big war preparation.

All "big boys" - SU, UK, France, and Germany - understood that they can't avoid real big war and played for time. They used smaller countries as pawns. Czech, Poland, Baltic states and Finland were first victims of this game but they never been an aim for big powers.

Stalin was not ready for big war at the end of 30-s - beg. of 40-s: he just completed "chistka" ="cleansing" of army and communist party to strengthen his dictatorship - he killed tens of thousands officers and left Red Army without head. He also tried to develop heavy industry in order to increase military production. He proposed alliance and military help to UK, France, Germany, Poland and Czech against Germany- but it was rejected and Western countries left Czech for Hitler without war. Poland even took part in Czech dismemberment - showing an example for Stalin. Poland also had a hope for alliance with Germany against Stalin - they couldn’t even think about opposite alliance.

The Western allies plan was to put Hitler for war in East, not West. Stalin just make an opposite plan and succeed in the start - Western allies proclaimed war against Hitler. But they did nothing. Unfortunately for Stalin Hitler decided that SU is weak enough and started the big war in June 1941 - he believed that the war will be short and after that he will have enough resources for war against UK without danger from the East. You all know the end of story and who won that big game in the late 80-s - USA and UK.

It could be disappointing to think about evil targeting you and your countries but found instead that the evil just didn't even take you into account.

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He had a hope to put the war against Germany future apart - he tried to push Hitler to the west. He rejected any intelligence information about Hitler’s plan and even repressed those who warned him about. His main aim was not "to provoke" Germans for war and he was think about himself as a genius. He was sure that Western allies try to put him to the war first. He wasn't a genius and underestimated Hitler madness.

When the war started he was completely shocked and disappeared for several days - his policy failed.

Don't forget also about other danger for SU in the Far East - Japan. There were hot conflics and local small wars between SU and Japan - in Mongolia and SU Far East in the late 30-s - started by Japanese. Stalin succeeds in the game there. Otherwise the results of WWII would be different.

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I'm interested to know more about your way of thinking - and why you still prefer to use reflexes instead of clever heads when think about Russia.

I work for British company in Moscow and they were thinking to involve Moscow office in their business in Poland. Wrong idea from my point of view.

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I think we need to know past and think more about future.

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Easy - Geogia is alternative way for oil and gas pipes from Caspian Sea and Central Asia. Monopoly is better for profit. Geogia was a part of plan of former US administration for Russia isolation - but Saakashvili was too hot and started a conflict in Ossetia. This was not in US plan.

The plan has now changed and US puppetts in Georgia, Ukraine and ... are not necessary anymore. The game now has differernt rule - who will pay (lost) more money to these countries. Russia is not clever here.

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Don't pay too much attention to small details. Saakashvili started the confict - it is true fact. Russia won a position in Georgia as a result. There is no evil and good there - just clever and stupid. And it is not clear yet who is clever there (not related to Saakashvili indeed).

Stop thinking by stereotypes, please.


You may think this way or another - just be calm. Nobody has monopoly for truth - the truth is too big for our heads. Our opinions are only projections of partial truth - we see it from different coordinate systems.

From this point any two opposite opinions together could be more true than any particular one.

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You can't believe it but Putin is not the only citizen in Russia. Other 140 millions are also exist.

That particular decision was made by Mr Luzhkov - major of Moscow. This decision is now cancelled.

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There is no such mentality in our government anymore. Communist party has a minority in Duma (parliament) and has no positions in government.

Some old veterans think that it is good to remember Stalin "positive role" in WWII. But even among them it is a minority.

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Better to whom? For most Russians at the moment Putin looks better then any of his predecessors in the last 100 years of our violent history.


We may only guess about their plans - who knows exactly?

To make Europe less dependent is a good idea by itself.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]


I believe it is a common practice - to investigate them in the counrtry of crush and where the aircraft was produced. If it is not, why your government and international community keep silence about it?

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]


I think it was an accident.

It doesn't mean we shouldn't be suspicios with this unprecedented crash. But world powers have already accepted this as an accident - and that's all.

Do you like conspiracy theories? OK - here is mine:
If somebody decided to kill him - the possible reason is that he became useless but informed pawn - and dangerous because he could share his information - say as a protest against Ukraine being sold to Russia.

Any idiot can point to Russians and blame them for any s*t on earth - other idiots will just agree without any doubts. We know it and somebody who planned it also knew it.

History / How was Poland compensated after World War 2 [47]


Nobody except Jewish and some Nazis concentration camps' prisoners got anything - in FSU and former Eastern Bloc countries at least. Germany has not enough resources even now to compensate it.

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Until you have money - you shouldn't worry about:)


Yanukovich would be happy to make you a gift - Lvov and Volyn' back together with these funny guys :)