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Message: <blockquote data-quote="green slime" data-source="post: 402941" data-attributes="member: 1325">That is because:a) the Poles have a long history of fighting the Russians.b) the Poles gained their independance from Imperial Russia during the collapse of Tsarist Russia.c) The poles fought bloody battles with the Russians in the early 1920s.On the other hand:The Greeks were having a Communist revolution at the end of WWII which was forcefully put down with English troops.The Serbs never hated the Russians. The language of the Serbs is VERY similar to Russian. They are part of Eastern Europe.In Italy, the first elections after the war required a massive covert operation by the US in order to prevent a communist victory in the democratic elections. Why did Russia let this occur? 1) perhaps they had no choice.2) perhaps they realised the consequences of meddling in the affairs of what had been agreed at Yalta to be within the American sphere of influence.Not in the 50s it wasn't. The west only really pulled away during the 70's and onward.The inability to spread information was indeed a serious drawback.IF Roosevelt had not been so sick, or if he had listened to Churchill, then perhaps...(another thread)And that would depend; They were leading in many areas of metallurgy, had been leading in Laser technology (until Star Wars), and in many areas of mathematics, as well as aerodynamics. On the other hand; They are having SERIOUS health issues. Pollution was in some places on a scale unimagined here in the west. By the beginning of the 90's they were having trouble filling the ranks of their conscript army, due to the general poor health of the populance. The factories have been pouring chemicals into the water, and spewing metals into the atmosphere. Look at the disappearance of the Aral Sea: They have caused the sea to become a desert. The flora dies, and what is left is a nasty concotion of fertilizers and herbicides blowing around causing enormous human sufering.</blockquote>

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