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May. 9th, 2005 10:57 amЗаимствую формулу: Вторая Мировая была выиграна русской кровью и американскими консервами.
Честь и хвала и тем, кто стрелял в нацистов, и тем, кто делал патроны и тушёнку.
How the 'Cowboys' of the West Defeated the Nazis
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
May 9, 2005; Page A22
President Bush is in Moscow's Red Square today, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945. Less than four years earlier, Hitler had declared war on the "cowboys" of the U.S. following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. When America in response entered the world conflagration, the Nazis had already been fighting Britain for 27 months and the Soviet Union for over five -- and seemed days away from knocking the Russians out of the war. The ascendant Reich and its Axis protectorates stretched from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert and from the English Channel to near the suburbs of Moscow, gobbling up more territory in three years than had Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon in their entire bloody careers.
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Честь и хвала и тем, кто стрелял в нацистов, и тем, кто делал патроны и тушёнку.
How the 'Cowboys' of the West Defeated the Nazis
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
May 9, 2005; Page A22
President Bush is in Moscow's Red Square today, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945. Less than four years earlier, Hitler had declared war on the "cowboys" of the U.S. following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. When America in response entered the world conflagration, the Nazis had already been fighting Britain for 27 months and the Soviet Union for over five -- and seemed days away from knocking the Russians out of the war. The ascendant Reich and its Axis protectorates stretched from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara Desert and from the English Channel to near the suburbs of Moscow, gobbling up more territory in three years than had Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon in their entire bloody careers.
( Read more... )