@ MIRCWAR: Seems kind of funny that a guy who has "2 kool 4 school" in his sig, is giving history lessons on a game forum

@ TRANCE: About Romania’s lost territories after WWII... Well put yourself in Russia’s shoes. What would you do with a country that not only was a base for enemy operations, for almost entire length of the war, but was also a key supplier of resources, such as oil and grain? Not only that, it also provided nearly 300,000 troops to fight against you. Well guess what that country was? Yes man, it was Romania.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to justify what happened with you guys. Hell, I hate Stalin as much as I hate Hitler. It’s just in your post man, you made it out like Romania was a totally innocent victim and Russia was this big villain that takes your land and gold. Oh, and about the gold... here’s an interesting story: Russian officials found a document that said, they were only selling Alaska to the U.S. for 100 or 200 years.. or so, and when the time expired the U.S. government should give it back. As you can imagine, the American government dismissed these claims as being totally bogus, and never gave Alaska back. So.. U.S. STOLE Alaska from Russia.??

Well man same thing with your gold... Countries have been screwing each other over resources, land, and money for as long as there were countries. You may call it STEALING but people in the government have another term for it, POLITICS. Its only matter of power, any strong country that gets the chance to screw over any smaller, less powerful country will almost certainly do it. Current example would be U.S. in Iraq. It always was like that, and it will always be like that. And EVERY country has its massacres, and back-stabs, and believe me, most countries won't admit to less than half of them.

As for me, I was born a proud Russian and I will die a proud Russian, no matter what. Yes I acknowledge that there were some ugly periods in our country’s history and I'm NOT proud of that. If that article about Putin glorifying Stalin is true, than it’s very sad. My opinion that the Stalinist era was one of the darkest (if not the darkest) periods in Russian history. Yes, most of the brightest minds of the century were executed or sent to rot in prisons “thanks” to Stalin. Things like Gulags and Concentration Camps should not be forgotten, but sadly, it seems for most people it’s easier to forget, than to remember.

(p.s. Sorry if some of this is off topic :roll: )

Allison, it's simple, in Soviet Union, there were no facts like them attacing any country, they just spreaded "brotherhood help". Like in Socialist Poland you couldn't teach at history lessons that USSR attacked poland on September 17, or to tell about Katyn (it's a place of Polish troops slaughtery, my Grandpa had huge problems when he told his workmates about this in 60's). So those ppl didn't have opportunity to learn those facts.

As someone maybe noticed we stepped from WW2 to communism, which can lead to fact that this was even worse and caused more victims than fashism(nasizm those are to different thing though).

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As someone maybe noticed we stepped from WW2 to communism, which can lead to fact that this was even worse and caused more victims than fashism(nasizm those are to different thing though).

It wasn't communism killing the people. It was the rulers of the country. Don't blame the political alignment for what the idiots leading the country did.