Re: Ummm... Bye! (or else)


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Re: Ummm... Bye! (or else)



> Date:          Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:21:28 -0500
> Reply-to:      Ray Kremer <rkremer@BRADLEY.EDU>
> From:          Ray Kremer <rkremer@BRADLEY.EDU>
> Subject:       Re: Ummm... Bye! (or else)
> To:            CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM

> You're probably right.  I was just making a generalization, without
> checking the exactness of my statement.  I was just trying to point out that
> while Russia was our ally DURING the war (as Chris Jarvis keeps saying),
> AFTER the war, we became not-so-friendly with them.  (Cold War, remember
> folks?)  I had also meant that to be a private e-mail to Chris, but I
> screwed it up somehow.  Still, nitpicking history does belong elsewhere.
> (To think the war discussion started with "We kicked your butt in the
> Revolution" just as a cheap shot against England.  Even that was wrong.
> We could never have done it without France.  But I digress.)  Nobody cares
> anymore guys, alright?
>
> >> During the war, yes, we were Russia's allies.  Hitler was the greater
> >> enemy at the time.  After the war, however, Russia swiftly took over every
> >> country that they had soldiers in,
> >
> >Untrue. Russia liberated a northern part of Norway, and then withdrew their
> >forces from Norway.(Though they didn't have many soldiers, and other forces
> >would have beaten them anyway, but still they didn't take over.) Now where
> >does the calc enter the picture here??
Hey I never said that we couldn't have done it without France, but
anyway....
Lee


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