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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Interesting p7 article where Stalin claims the Baltic States as Russian. The left was of course fine with that as well as additional Soviet territorial gains while obsessing themselves with anti-western-colonialism for the remainder of the 20th century.


14 posted on 02/13/2013 1:29:47 PM PST by fso301
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To: fso301
Interesting p7 article where Stalin claims the Baltic States as Russian.

That article is sort of an awkward fit with the text of Roosevelt's speech (pg. 4).

"No nation in all the world that is free to make a choice is going to set itself up under a Fascist form of government, or a Nazi form of government or a Japanese warlord form of government. For such forms are the offspring of seizure of power followed by the abridgement of freedom. Therefore (and this is plain logic), the United Nations can properly say of these forms of government, Nazism, Fascism and Japanism, if I may coin a new word, the United Nations can properly say to these forms of government two simple words: 'Never again!'

"For the right of self-determination included in the Atlantic Charter does not carry with it the right of any government anywhere in the world to commit wholesale murder or the right to make slaves of its own people or of any other peoples in the world."

I know it was politically convenient at the time to exempt communism from this statement but I imagine the hypocrisy was not lost on everybody who heard the speech.

16 posted on 02/13/2013 2:02:52 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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