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From: Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:39:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> Still, those stories of German businessmen meeting with their U.S.
>> counterparts in New York in 1940 are a bit chilling.
> 
> https://www.americanheritage.com/how-america-helped-build-soviet-machine
> 
> "In the 1920s the cream of American firms involved with automobiles, 
> electricity, and workplace management were eager to sell the state of 
> their art—give or take a few years—to the “Reds,” despite powerful 
> anticommunist voices on the right. The Soviets were ready to buy, despite 
> their aversion to capitalism. (They distinguished, as many Americans 
> cannot even today, between America’s history-shaping means of production 
> and our free-enterprise economic superstructure.) The United States had 
> never enjoyed greater worldwide respect—or envy—than after World War I. 
> The Soviets believed that the American system of production could 
> consolidate the Bolshevik Revolution."
> 
> https://it.usembassy.gov/america-sent-gear-to-the-ussr-to-help-win-world-
> war-ii/
> 
> Which was the evil empire depended only on who lost the war.
> 

The Russians killed a lot more people than the Germans. They’ve just
managed to mostly keep,it under cover all these years.

-- 
Pete