[ozzymandus]

Very little different from the Russian army rampaging in Georgia today.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No, the Russians of 1945 were much, much worse. Poorly educated peasants, inflamed by nationalism and five years of a brutal genocidal war.

Today's Russians chaff at their loss of status as the world's bogeyman but most of them probably just want to have quiet life. Putin's a cretin.