dwest wrote:Innocent Bystander wrote: Next you'll be telling me you never heard of the Great Patriotic War.
Is that the War of Soviet-Axis Aggression?
Right, in the West the conflict was more commonly known as World War II, but in the Soviet Union it was known as The Great Patriotic War. And, yes, in essence TGPW was a matter of Soviet-Axis conflict, in particular as initiated by Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Soviet territory by Nazi Germany, although there's also a history of events to consider prior to that. For instance, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were in fact commercial trading partners, right up through the later 1930s, and eventually NG and the SU effectively agreed to divide Europe between themselves, in an agreement known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. However, the 1939 invasions by NG, of Austria, of Czechoslovakia, and of Poland heightened the tensions between NG and the SU, and then later, in 1941, Operation Barbarossa effectively kicked off the hostilities between NG and the SU.
BTW, the US supplied war materials to the SU during WWII, mostly by ship at ports such as Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, etc. The subsequent "Cold War" didn't begin until several years after the end of WWII.
dwest wrote:BTW are these prayer rugs?
Prayer rugs, in the Soviet Union? Sheesh, no!
Could the phrase, Godless Communists, sound familiar?
