Reply #211: Pontificating? Maybe little

[aneerkoinos]

But I did have a point, Stalind didn't wan't to eat more than he could stomach. Keeping people under iron boot is not easy task, and it's not wise to try it on too many peopla, as USA is now finding out in Iraq, and Stalin was smarter than Bushistas. Romania and Jugoslavia never became full members of Soviet empire, and Stalin and his followers never even tried. It is worst kind of revisionist history to claim that Stalin was trying to conquer the world when he most of all wanted a healthy safety buffer between Russia and west. It had been only about 20 yers since Soviets won their war of independence against capitalist intruders, and on top of that Stalin was also paranoid, very very bad way.