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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Had the Russkies invaded Europe back in the '60s and established a Union of Soviet European Republics (including the UK) then the simple fact is that we would have more democracy today than we currently have under the so called EU.
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The idea of Russians invading Europe was never on ... the gap between their military capability and that of NATO (short form for United States of America) was always too wide. One of the major reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union was its attempt to maintain its military strength on the basis of an ailing economy. In fact, at the end of WWll, the Russians were in danger of being attacked by the western allies ... Operation Unthinkable. When considering the idea of a Russian offensive, it would be advisable to take into account the Soviet casualties in the war: for every US solier KIA, sixty Russian soldiers died. Like Britain, the Soviet Union never really recovered from the two World Wars ... and the Americans noisily filled in the power vacuum created by the devastation in Europe.