The Soviet Union never occupied the Baltic States
New Shiron
05-05-2005, 23:39
I bet you believed your history books too.... well according to the Russian governnment today that never happened ... they were invited in.
Imagine what all of the Balts thought who went to the Gulags would have to say.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/russiabalticsoccupationkremlin
This from the same government who stated a few weeks ago that the breakup of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe.....
This thread isn't anti-US so I think maybe you aren't allowed to put it up. Please mention how this is the US's fault and then it will be okay. :D
Historical revisionism is always entertaining. The Soviets didn't occupy the Baltics, the Europeans purposefully spread disease to native Americans and according to S. Koreans a non-present US Army started the Korean war.
heh ehe, :(
... and the Americans didn't occupy Iraq, they "liberated" it... (ok, so I said that to try and counter balance the complaint above that this post is not meeting the anti-American quota :-) )
But seriously, I found this Russian statement very offensive. I believe this will have enraged any Estonians/Latvians/Lithuanians reading this. It will probably make the Estonians and Lithuanians think their President made the right decision not to attend Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, and make Latvia's Presidents decision to attend look a little mistaken...
... and the Americans didn't occupy Iraq, they "liberated" it... (ok, so I said that to try and counter balance the complaint above that this post is not meeting the anti-American quota :-) )
But seriously, I found this Russian statement very offensive. I believe this will have enraged any Estonians/Latvians/Lithuanians reading this. It will probably make the Estonians and Lithuanians think their President made the right decision not to attend Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, and make Latvia's Presidents decision to attend look a little mistaken...
it wasn't a complaint, thus the :D
it wasn't a complaint, thus the :D
ha ha :D i realise this, my response with in a similar vein...
But back to the discussion at hand, perhaps someone can bump it in the morning... it's 0.55 here in the CET time zone (and thus 1.55 in Tallinn and 2.55 in Moscow), perhaps more Baltic and Russian people will be up and awake to comment in around 8 hours time...
German Nightmare
06-05-2005, 00:30
Even if the Russians were invited in - they surely didn't behave like guest over the last 50 years!
yeah... and the Germans only wanted "living space" in Poland... France... Yugoslavia... Northern Africa... Scandinavia... and Russia :rolleyes:
Niccolo Medici
06-05-2005, 00:35
Invited in to do what? Oppress the people and brutally crush all resistance to their rule? ...Is there a Hallmark card for that kind of invite?
yeah... and the Germans only wanted "living space" in Poland... France... Yugoslavia... Northern Africa... Scandinavia... and Russia :rolleyes:
seemed reasonable at the time.
I would be interested to seem some Russian opinion on this, you know, the common man and all that stuff.
Sexy Andrew
06-05-2005, 00:44
Well apparently my freinds grandfather was killed when the 'communists' occupied estonia so.......
Hmm... Well, you can't say that the UK and France are perfect either...I mean, when they did all those horrible things to the Africans in the colonies, they just wanted to 'spread their borders'! By the way, today is the 50th deathday of a black boy who was beaten and killed for saying hi to a white woman! (After civil war)
Tomzilla
06-05-2005, 00:54
I bet you believed your history books too.... well according to the Russian governnment today that never happened ... they were invited in.
Yeah, and the Poles invited the Russians and Germans in for wine and drinks. And the United States bombed Tokyo Bay in 1941.
The South Islands
06-05-2005, 00:57
(insert anti-american comment here)
Yeah, and the Poles invited the Russians and Germans in for wine and drinks. And the United States bombed Tokyo Bay in 1941.
Yeah but the US bombing of Tokyo Bay in 41 was a failure because they didn't catch the carriers in the harbour. So the IJN was able to recover fairly quickly and crush the US at Midway in 42. If they had caught the carriers in the habour then we would all be driving Fords today and speaking English!!!
German Nightmare
06-05-2005, 01:01
As a German with a sometimes sick sense of humor (and very sound historic knowledge) I like to piss people off that try to get to me with that kind of arguing with my statement that Germany tried to conquer "living space in the East" until we reached France...