http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:34:23 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/11/19/220213.php#comment-29294 can't really disagree. but i still greatly admire what they did to stop the germans. and stalingrad did inspire the world (admittedly in part because people didn't sufficiently appreciate the evil of uncle joe). good night, john boy. 29294@blogcritics.org Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:34:23 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/11/19/220213.php#comment-29293 Thanks, Chris, for the tidbit of historical enlightenment. Very nicely done. I'll have to go look up Uranus. ;-) 29293@blogcritics.org Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:31:27 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/11/19/220213.php#comment-29289 It's a mistake to think of the Nazi/Soviet conflict as one of "good guys" and "bad guys". Yes the Soviet victory did wonderful things for the West, but it was catastrophic for many other relatively innocent peoples. It was a clash of two vile regimes and we should all be thankful they exhausted themselves on each other. 29289@blogcritics.org Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:22:30 EST