--- Nick Cooper 625 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Both Hitler and Stalin had territorial ambitions on Poland, but while > Katyn proved that the Soviets could be just as brutal as the Nazis, > they were not ideologically comparable. The signign of the > non-agression pact came as a complete surprise to the rest of Europe, > simply because of previous German antipathy to communist Russia, and > vice versa. It's obvious that both countries readily agreed because > each wanted to buy time against the other - Germany to avoid the WW1 > scenario of a war on two fronts, and the Soviet Union to enable it to > build up defenec against a fully-expected German attack. You guys need to get life and stop watching the history channel. :-) -Craig __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *