Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
You think that the events behind the iron curtain between 1945 and 1989 were in some way understandable because... Germany?

Madness.
Really? THis coming from a country whose population, even today, are unable to celebrate a football win without singing songs about German bombers?

Soviet Union deaths from WW2- 20 million plus
British deaths from WW2- circa 450,000

We like to parade ourselves as the sole defenders against Hitler's aggression when most of the war was fought elsewhere at far greater cost to others.

I did accept they could have calmed down earlier but madness? If so, largely justifiable madness.