"Mimi Gallandt -> Jeff Binkley"  wrote in
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 JB>> The FDR administration was full of Communists.  It is amazing
 MG>   that the JB> US won WWII.  If Russia hadn't been allied the Allies,
 MG>   we may not JB> have won.

 MG> That is certainly true. Quite some time ago a traveling exhibit came
 MG> to one of the museums here. It was called World War Two through
 MG> Russian Eyes. If it ever comes near you go and see it. It was a
 MG> remarkable exhibit. Russia lost 26 million people in WWII. That number
 MG> includes the Russians who were killed when Hitler invaded Russia. It's
 MG> a given that Stalin was a power mad lunatic, but his army was a force
 MG> to be admired.

One of Stalin's best generals was named Zhukov.

Stalin's 1930's purges really damaged the Soviet army.

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