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Re: USSR



Gurth wrote:
> 
> This isn't different from the way many other wars start. All a war really
> needs is an excuse, and if the other side isn't willing to provide one then
> you make one yourself... The odd thing is not the dishonorability, but the
> fact that even the most absolute dictatorships hardly ever start a war
> without finding a reason, no matter how far-fetched, to claim the _other_
> side started it, and they're only responding.
> 
That's true, even Hitler had some kind of excuse to invade Poland, IIRC.

// J