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To: marcusmaximus

Ironic if true, since that is what happened to both Napoleon’s French army and the Nazis when they invaded Russia.


20 posted on 03/22/2022 11:55:29 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

One of my college engineering profs (who was a German soldier in WWII and had been an American POW sent to Nebraska) joked that if they had synthetic arctic 0 weight engine oil back then, the Russians would all be speaking German.


26 posted on 03/22/2022 11:59:45 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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And Napoleon and Hitler were defecated by the freezing cold and the Russians who know how to fight in freezing weather more than anyone else.
35 posted on 03/22/2022 12:10:21 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Bubba_Leroy

“Ironic if true, since that is what happened to both Napoleon’s French army and the Nazis when they invaded Russia.”

And it happened to the Russians in the Winter War against Finland.


71 posted on 03/22/2022 2:57:18 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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