tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post6642125474723006593..comments2024-03-29T10:44:12.904+00:00Comments on David Lindsay: PartisanDavid Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-30599904775844508382008-07-21T07:58:00.000+01:002008-07-21T07:58:00.000+01:00Don't tell your regular correspondent Jock McTrous...Don't tell your regular correspondent Jock McTrousers - he thinks Stalin was <A HREF="http://neilclark66.blogspot.com/2008/04/wally-of-week-lord-desai.html?showComment=1208477640000" REL="nofollow">a greatly misunderstood figure</A> - who, amongst other achievements, killed fewer people than Tony Blair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-31394302177147529362008-07-21T00:53:00.000+01:002008-07-21T00:53:00.000+01:00We should never have had anything to do with eithe...We should never have had anything to do with either Hitler or Stalin.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25656996.post-43025670259951138282008-07-19T14:38:00.000+01:002008-07-19T14:38:00.000+01:00I think the problem is that we initialy chose not ...I think the problem is that we initialy chose not to ally ourselves with Stalin. By rejecting his offer of alliance we, in turn, forced him into a position of quasi neutrality while Britain & France took on Hiler.Had Britain France & the USSR allied in dafencive pact with Poland, or even better Czechoslovakia WW" would either not have been fought or would have been over in weeks when the German General Staff saw what Hitler had got them into & shot him while resisting arrest.<BR/><BR/>Whatever one thinks of Hitler & Stalin - Germany wanted to expand & the USSR largely to be left alone & a sensible foreign policy would have been worked ob that basis. Once we were at war there was no way out except winning or losing.neil craighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09157898238945726349noreply@blogger.com