Posted on 09/17/2017 5:17:45 AM PDT by AdmSmith
Nearly half of Russian citizens approve of 1939's Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, a Levada Center poll released on Wednesday has found.
Thirteen percent of Levadas respondents said they definitely approve of the pact, while 32 percent they somewhat approve of it.
A combined 17 percent said they definitely or somewhat disapprove of the treaty that the USSR and Nazi Germany signed on Aug. 23, 1939.
Two-fifths of the 1,600 people polled said they had heard of the pact and think that it happened in real life, the survey revealed. One-third said theyve never heard of it, while 17 percent said the pact was a fake.
While the odd were very long and the Finns put up one hell of a fight, it was not a victory. They gave the Reds the entire Karelian Isthmus, and a large block of land North of Lake Ladoga, including the second largest city in Finland.
All tolled the Finns lost 11% of their territory and 30% of their industrial capacity to the Reds.
...and thousand of people.
It was a defense victory for the Finns. They were 3 million people and even the land they were left with is larger than Italy. They weren’t forced under communism and massacred. The people left on the lost territory escaped to Finland. Finland is now one of the richest countries in the world.
If they had our education system, 98% would have responded, “Never heard of it.”
Thanks AdmSmith. Cue the old Elvis Costello song...
movie on 78th anniversary of Soviet aggression on Poland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7MSG4Q-4as&t=3s
One thing there is no doubt about-Stain, by invading the Baltic states, probably saved Leningrad & the soviet fleet.
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