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From: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: More double standards
Message-ID: <1110@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 13:47:44 EST
Article-I.D.: cornell.1110
Posted: Sun Nov 24 13:47:44 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 26-Nov-85 21:39:14 EST
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Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Summary: 

In article <13348@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
>
>Have you ever wondered how the Soviet Union came to be the largest country
>in the world?  How about expansionism?  Aggression?  They've  built up their
>empire for the past 700 years.

For those who are unaware, the Soviet Union is less than 70 years old, and
have *not* been building up their empire for 700 years.  The Soviet Union
came to be so large because it inherited the lands of Imperial Russia.  Much
of the land the Soviet Union has acquired since 1917 (Sakhalin Island,
Lithuania, Latvia, Esthonia, parts of Finland and Poland, and, if you will,
the Ukraine and Belorussia) were parts of the Russian Empire at the turn
of the century.  True, much of this land as well as other parts of the
Soviet Union were obtained via expansionism and aggression (whether by the
Soviets or by the Romanovs), but these are things on which neither the Soviets
nor the Russians in general have a monopoly.
-- 
        Gil Neiger 
        Computer Science Department 
        Cornell University 
        Ithaca NY  14853 

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