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Re: Lets keep politics out of Lego
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:35:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > It is an English thing - not UK. You'll also find that a good deal of
> > > England still harks back to WW2, and loves reminding the Germans about who
> > > one.
> >
> > Really? It's good of those Englishpeople to promote the US that way.
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> My school history teacher told me the allies "won" the war,
The Empire of Nippon won the war. Isn't that obvious?
> these were made
> up of France, Great Britain, much of the now Commonwealth, the United
> States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. Was he wrong?
I guess that depends on the details. Did he indicate that "we" won the war
only because the US fully engaged? Did he explain that we won in spite of
Montgomery rather than because of him?
In truth, we likely couldn't have done it without the UK being a friendly
because we needed a close land base. OTOH, I think it is wildly clear that the
rest of the world couldn't have done it without the US. So, we did do it
together, and probably none of us could have done it alone. But we did it more
than you did so nyah nyah ;-)
Chris
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| (...) My school history teacher told me the allies "won" the war, these were made up of France, Great Britain, much of the now Commonwealth, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. Was he wrong? Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 21-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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