And consider that the material base of the USSR was laid waste.
DDeBar
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> From: Charles Robinson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CHOMSKY] Chomsky says the Nazis won WW2
> Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 4:55 PM
>
> the winners were the Nazis, the
> > German
> > industrialists who had supported Hitler, the Italian
> > Fascists and the war criminals that were sent off to
> > South
> > America - they were all cheering at the end of the
> > war.
> > The losers of the war were the anti-fascist
> > Resistance,
> > who were crushed all over the world. Either they
> > were
> > massacred like in Greece or South Korea, or just
> > crushed like in Italy and France.
> >
>
> >How, in all seriousness, can Chomsjy claim that
> > the Nazis won WW2?
> >
>
> Hello...I may appear to be a stranger but here is my
> opinion on this issue:
>
> Cosider the events immediately following WWII.  On the
> one hand there was the USSR solidifying its sphere of
> influence throughout eastern Europe.  On the other
> hand the was the on going "threat" of communist
> revolutions in China, Korea, and French Indochina.  US
> policy makers viewed these situations as unacceptable
> and set about on a course of re-installing the fascist
> systems which had been in place in countries like
> Italy and Greece.  They also began pumping up the
> economies of non-communist German and Japan...as well
> as billions of dollars in finacial and military aid
> for the French to continue resisting Ho Chi Minh in
> Vietnam.
>
> So, even though fascism was beaten into submission
> during WWII, once it was again (effectively) under US
> control, we used it in our favor to try and stop the
> "proliferation" of the communist "cancer"...using
> those terms very losely...as policy makers of the time
> would have.
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