Re: tragic events of January 13, 1991


J. Anderson wrote:
> "Eugene Holman" <holman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:holman-1301062214520001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > The entire struggle was between two
> > ideologies, not two ethnicities.
>
> The struggle was between neither ideologies nor ethnicities, it was a
> struggle where the totalitarian Soviet state apparatus tried to hinder the
> break-away of nations that it had procured as spoils from its deals with
> Hitler, Churchill and Roosevelt.
>
> Our eastern neighbour is an empire, not an ideology. We are fooling
> ourselves in a very dangerous way if we ever forget that. Stop trying to
> differentiate between 'democratic' Russia, Soviet Russia and Czarist
> Russia -- they are all the same from our viewpoint.
>
> After 40 years in Finland you still haven't learned to think the way members
> of small nations do and must do. Russia is the only conceivable threat to
> our security. We must watch it with the utmost suspicion, constantly. We
> must maintain a strong defense, based on state of the art technology,
> universal military service and a general will to defend ourselves (in this
> respect I'm proud of our young men). And we must enter alliances that make
> it very clear where we stand and belong.
>
> The presidential election debate has confirmed that the day when Finland
> joins NATO is not far away. When we do, we will actually strengthen NATO.
>
> Regards,
> John

Good post, John.

Evaldas

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