Vladimir Putin says there was nothing wrong with Soviet Union's pact with Adolf Hitler's Nazi German

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82. Thank you. I laud your efforts at correcting me and doing it so civilly.

It is good to read your detailed and studied comments.

My own effort to break through to rationality on this board was muddied by being based largely on personal memories and impressions of nearly 70 years ago that have faded somewhat with time.

William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" was the most amazing book I have ever read, and I highly recommend it to anyone who would like the story from a brilliant and analytical journalist who was there. I read it cover to cover in my twenties, and many details and dates have faded or become entertwined with other similar events of the time. But no one who has ever read it can fail to absorb some of the key elements and lessons of those times.

Your careful, thoughtful post helped tremendously in sorting it out. I hope our dialog encourages some Duers under the sway of the GOP mass media/propaganda to learn more actual history.

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