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From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America: soft, rich, pacifist (how they perceive us)
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 13:29:55 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  3 13:29:55 1985
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> (paraphrasing, as I deleted the 1st line by mistake) In WWII, the US
> sent an armed force to their country (USSR),
> whereas they have never done the same
> to us.  According to the official Communist line we are "Imperialist agressors"
>        tim sevener  whuxl!orb
>  "We had to destroy that planet in order to save it!"

Maybe someone can correct me if I'mn wrong, but I don't think that US
(or British, for that matter) troops were ever sent to the USSR in WWII.
During the waning weeks of the war in Europe, the advancing armies of the
US and UK (on the west), and the USSR (on th east) were all marching on
Germany, and basically met at what are now the West German and East German
borders (with some US and perhaps British units getting as far east as
Berlin, now inside of East Germany).  This is quite far from any Russian soil,
as Poland is in between.  This defacto situation led, in part, to the
present division of Germany; the USSR retained control of the territory
they advanced over, at the end of the war.  The only foreign trrops on Russian
soil during WWII were the Germans.

Bob Schleicher
ihuxk!rs55611

PS:  This is not to deny that the Russians appear to have a long-
standing, historical fear of being invaded, and with good reason, as they
have been repeatedly invaded over the years (eg., various Germanic tribes,
Mongols, Napolean, and the Germans in WWI, and WWII.)