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09-20-2009, 10:39 AM
Required reading,
Putin's preferred memory of World War II | The Japan Times Online Putin summarizes his understanding of the scale of the war by recalling the loss of "27 million lives of my compatriots." That number has grown over the years, as Soviet officials broadened the definition of wartime deaths to mean total "population loss," rather than direct military casualties. Official estimates of Soviet deaths in World War II thus rose from 7 million (the figure put forth under Joseph Stalin) to 20 million (Khrushchev) to 26.6 million (Gorbachev), with civilian deaths accounting for at least two-thirds of Putin's estimate. Unfortunately, Putin does not explain whom he counts as his compatriots. If he meant those who lived within Russia's contemporary borders, the number would have been much lower. Instead, he includes all citizens of the Soviet Union who died during the war, including millions of Ukrainians, Belarusians, and others. And, when the Soviet Union annexed the Baltic countries and parts of Poland, Finland, Moldova and Japan, their citizens, too, became Soviet compatriots. 
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09-20-2009, 08:42 PM
It also sounds like he's inclueding the 7 million Jews butchered by Germany. Eventually it will be everyone killed dureing the war period. It's like that ever exspanding fish, you know..the one the fisherman caught that was so big, how it keeps getting bigger everytime he talks about it.
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09-22-2009, 12:19 PM
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You're just calling me weak because I won't kill innocent people. But that is my strength; it's what seperates me from evil people. The eternal Saint is calling, through the ages she has told. The ages have not listened; the will of faith has grown old…
For forever she will wander, for forever she withholds; the Demon King is on his way, you’d best not be learned untold…
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overcompensation in action -
09-22-2009, 06:30 PM
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LOLOLolololololol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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