[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...If Napoleon had conquered Russia, the Russians would have been free almost 200 years earlier than they were...."

Yes. Of course. Freedom at the point of a gun. A splendid vision indeed.

The Third of May 1808
Francisco de Goya

[LoisHunt]

The Russian peasants were at the point of a gun under their nobles, constantly. They were slaves. Horrible things like cannibalism happened in Russia when conditions were really bad. Meanwhile, all of the noble families would each keep many houses in states of constant readiness for their turning up to live there, fires burning, larders full, fully staffed with domestic servants. It was an enormous drain on productivity in Russia. Crippling Communism came on top of crippling serfdom.

Also, under Napoleon, the Russians would have had the rule of law, the Napoleonic code being unquestionably more just than what was practiced as law in Russia which was slavery for the peansants.

[q_an_a]

You frogs are an interesting group. You killed thousands of your own and built an internal spy network that made Hitler's work easy. You have failed to get your unemployment under control AND the Algerians still HATE you.

Your record of military effectiveness can be shown once... Napolean and then nothing. After world war II you have been running and hiding. If not for your historical buildings and art, you would have a 25% unemployment and a military that could not beat a south Los Angeles street gang.

On top of this you have the nerve to suggest that you have a better way of doing everything. If the whole world had your health care system more people would die of disease than of war.

q_an_a The retail republican