Toby wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:Toby wrote: The Soviet Union did defeat Nazi Germany, but their intentions to do so were not couched in the moral spirt of the Allies, given that they occupied Eastern Europe for 40 years afterwards.
Of course, that they may have decided to build a buffer between themselves and all the other European countries that had seemingly taken it in turns to invade Russia in previous times was, of course, completely unfair and really wasn't playing the game, old chap.
Absolute rot and you know it. It was imperialism continued in socialist drag.
No really. I think they fancied protecting their borders by building a buffer.
It worked.