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Re:The dark story behind Stalin’s popular photo with a Sovie... by Turing_Machine on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:36PM (#17325489)
> If they were bent on continental domination, they could've fairly easily taken the rest of the exhausted Europe.

Hmm... and what do you imagine the Americans would have been doing while this was going on, given that they still had a gigantic and completely undamaged industrial economy (the only one left in the world, at that stage), nuclear weapons, and truly massive amounts of troops and equipment that would have been available for redeployment from the Pacific after Japan's surrender?

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Re:The dark story behind Stalin’s popular photo with a Sovie... by aeontech on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:27PM (#17325648)
Well, yeah. Hence peace talks, surely. Unlike a certain Hitler who decides to open a war on multiple fronts at once. I was arguing against the notion that “if it wasn’t for Germany, Soviets would have conquered Europe.”
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