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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by criley2 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:54PM (#16757748)
Oh, the US didn't meet the USSR in Berlin, stop the westward movement of the Soviet advance, saving dozens of countries from communism?

My bad, I totally forgot that the Cold War never happened and that the soldiers of WW2 didn't form a hard border in Berlin that they were not friendly over.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by geofft on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:03PM (#16759063)
> the US didn't meet the USSR in Berlin

As far as I know, no? The US was quite far from Berlin by the end of the war, and did not engage the USSR in battle for territorial control of Germany.

> saving dozens of countries from communism?

Surely not "dozens", but was there even one? The other Allies essentially handed Poland over to Stalin.

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Re:Google Workers Urge C.E.O. To Pull Out of Pentagon A.I. P... by djrogers on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @05:43PM (#16759469)
>> the US didn't meet the USSR in Berlin >As far as I know, no? The US was quite far from Berlin by the end of the war, and did not engage the USSR in battle for territorial control of Germany.

I believe GP was referring to a few years later, when the Berlin airlift broke the Soviet blockade of West Berlin - a clear attempt by the Soviet Union to expand their spehere of control to West Berlin and eventually West Germany as a whole.

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