Right now, in Europe the 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of WWII is Under Way.

[NNadir]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8225093.stm

Whatever we experience, it is unlikely that we will ever experience anything quite so terrible.

That suffering made our world.

[Captain Hilts]

1. The whole continent starved, and worse...Putin just condemned the Nazi-Soviet pact...nt

[David__77]

2. Putin is wrong.

And he'll pay the price at the polls for this betrayal.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. You mean you think making a pact with Hitler

and then invading part of Poland was a good thing? :wow:

[Odin2005]

4. I think he was being sarcastic.

[David__77]

7. I thinnk the non-aggression treaty was a good thing, yes.

The UK, through its actions at Munich, made clear that it was pushing Germany to attack the Soviet Union and would not join an anti-German alliance. Czechoslovakia, which had an alliance with the Soviets, was betrayed completely. So what was the Soviet Union to do? They counter-moved, and turned the Germans westward instead. The UK invited this with its pro-fascist actions at Munich.

Occupying part of Poland was a necessary move to form a cordon against Germany as well as to protect Poles, including hundreds of thousands of Jews, from fascism.

[Morning Dew]

5. Oh, no. How will they ever rehabilitate Stalin if he's open to fresh criticism ?

Kick.

[Morning Dew]

6. Dang you!

now you've got me reading Pravda.
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/109031-0/

and russia today.
http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-09-01/ussr-didnt-need-allies.html

The USSR didn't need the help of the allies to win the Great Patriotic War.