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Old 03-08-2014, 08:30 PM   #623
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Originally Posted by Jets4Life View Post
It's not that easy.

The Germans are an incredibly bad example (no offense), because of their issues with race. In fact, it can be argued that the racial policy of Nazi Germany cost them the war on Russia, as Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Cossacks, and other groups of ethnic minorities welcomed them with parades in 1941.

Unfortunately, those ethnic groups soon found that as bad as a Stalin controlled government was, it was superior to the Nazis plan to enslave most of the Slavic people, to work in labor camps, or kill the intellectuals outright.

If you have an invading force that the local population finds favorable to Putin's version of Russia, resistance would not be as fierce as it was in the Second World War.
Cossacks are not an ethnic group.

And in no way were Stalin's policies "superior" to the Nazis. I actually find that statement rather offensive, although I don't blame you personally.
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